er Ignatius and his
eccentricities it is needless to speak.

The following statistics will interest many:--"There is a weekly
celebration of the Holy Communion at 169 churches, more than one-fourth;
daily celebration at 20, nearly one-thirtieth; early morning celebration
at 159, one-fourth; evening celebration at 97, nearly one-sixth;
afternoon celebration at 5; choral celebration at 63, one-tenth;
saints'-day services at 198, nearly one-third; daily service at 132, more
than one-fifth; no weekday service at 104, one-sixth; full choral service
at 128, more than one-fifth; and partly choral service at 115, nearly
one-fifth; giving a proportion of nearly half where the psalms are
chanted; surpliced choirs at 137, more than one-fifth; paid choirs at 88,
nearly one-seventh; voluntary choirs at 231, more than one-third.
Gregorian tones are used exclusively for chanting at 46, one-fourteenth.
The weekly offertory is the rule at 128, nearly one-fifth. There are
free but appropriated seats at 141, nearly one-fourth; free and open
seats at 65, more than one-tenth. The Eucharistic vestments are worn at
20, being one church in every 31; incense is used at 7, one-nineteenth;
the surplice is worn in the pulpit at 83, more than one-eighth; and 26
churches are open daily for private prayer."

Dr. Sherlock, afterwards Bishop of Bangor, in his "Test Act Vindicated,"
published in the year 1718, tells us that in the year 1676, upon a
calculation that was made, the Nonconformists of all sorts, including
Papists as well as others, were found to be in proportion to the members
of the Church of England as one to twenty. That this is not the case now
shows how the Church of England has misused her opportunities, or else
that her claims have been rejected by the nation at large.

CHAPTER VII.
AMONG THE PRESBYTERIANS.

_At Colebrook Row_.

Innovations are the order of the day. New times and altered
circumstances require them. In Christian work they are imperatively
required. While the Church has folded its arms and slept, while people
have been lulled to ease and carelessness by the respectability of Church
life and the wealth of professors, while pastors and ecclesiastical
authorities have found satisfaction in the observance of ancient order
and in the routine of established work, all at once there comes to them a
cry that the heathen are outside of them, blaspheming the name they love,
ignorant of the Gospel tidings, per