ect for himself. The advantages of this state of things preponderate
over its disadvantages. The philosopher may despise, and the Christian
of a generous heart and catholic aspirations may regret, that such should
be the case--may think it better that men had wider views--better that we
should stand on a broader platform than a sectarian one: but we may not
quarrel with the conditions of religious existence. We must feel that
these sects and schisms denote religious life and thought--that their
absence would be death--and that, as the world grows and the truth
becomes clearer, they will, one by one, disappear.

'Thus star by star departs,
Till all have pass'd away;
And daylight high and higher shines,
Till pure and perfect day.
Nor sink those stars in empty night,
But hide themselves in heaven's own light.'

The 94 chapels we have referred to, belonging to the New Church, the
Brethren, the Irvingites, the Latter-Day Saints, Sandemanians, Lutherans,
French Protestants, Greeks, Germans, Italians, have accommodation for
18,833. Of course some of these people have but little reason to give
for the faith that is in them. Actually, in this age of intelligence--in
these days of cheap literature and cheap schools--there are men and women
so sunk in ignorance as to credit the absurd pretensions of Joanna
Southcote or Joe Smith; but these people we must include. We sit in
judgment on none; and thus we give the church and chapel goers, as
follows:

Church of England 409,834
Congregationalists 100,436
Baptists 54,234
Methodists 60,696
Presbyterians 18,211
Unitarians 3,300
Roman Catholics 18,230
Quakers 3,157
Moravians 1,100
Jews 3,692
Isolated Congregations 18,833
691,723

According to the last returns, we have the following population:
Finsbury, 323,772; Lambeth, 251,345; London (City), 127,869; Marylebone,
370,957; Southwark, 172,863; Tower Hamlets, 539,111; Westminster, 241,
611; and with other places not classified, in all, 2,362,236. If we
compare this with the figures I have given, we shall see that, if all the
accommodation that exists were used, rather more than a quarter of the
London population frequente