entirely from the use of
animal food. At one time he was an ardent member of the party of
Anti-State Churchmen, of which the late member for Rochdale is the glory
and defence. Latterly he seems to have mixed but little with that body.
We can well imagine that his time has been otherwise occupied--that his
situation must have been one of growing difficulty and danger--that the
claims, on the one side, of a church orthodox on all great questions, and
of truth and duty, or what seemed to him as such, on the other, must have
cost him many a weary day and sleepless night. That he burst his bonds
and became free--that he tore away the associations of a life--argues the
possession of honesty and conscientiousness, and fits him to be the
preacher of the free inquiry of which he has afforded so signal an
example in himself.

THE REV. HENRY IERSON.

'Can you tell me where Mr. Fox's Chapel is?' said I to a young gentleman
who had evidently been in the habit of passing it every Sunday. 'No,
indeed, I cannot,' was the reply. I put the same question to a
policeman, and with the same result. Yet South Place, Finsbury Square,
is a place of no little pretension. It has been the home of rational
religion for some years--of the religion of humanity--of religion
purified from formalism, bibliolatry, and cant. There the darkness of
the past has been rolled away, and the light of a new and better day
appeared; and yet the scene of all this was unknown to the dwellers in
the immediate neighbourhood. There is a light so dazzling that it can
only be seen from afar, that close to it you can see nothing. It may be
this is the light radiating from South Place.

'There is a religion of humanity,' writes Mr. Fox, 'though not enshrined
in creeds and articles--though it is not to be read merely in sacred
books, and yet it may be read in all, whenever they have anything in them
of truth and moral beauty; a religion of humanity which goes deeper than
all, because it belongs to the essentials of our moral and intellectual
constitution, and not to mere external accidents--the proof of which is
not in historical agreement or metaphysical deduction, but in our own
conscience and consciousness; a religion of humanity which unites and
blends all other religions, and makes one the men whose hearts are
sincere, and whose characters are true, and good, and harmonious,
whatever may be the deductions of their minds, or their external
profession; a