presiding spirit, an apostle seems to be what a bishop is in the
English Church. There is an apostle for England, another for France,
another for America, and another for Germany. To every cathedral there
are twenty-four priests. The angel is magnificently clad in purple, the
sign of authority. The next order, the prophets, wear blue stoles,
indicative of the skies whence they draw their inspiration. The
evangelists wear red as a sign of their readiness to shed their blood in
the cause.

The Cathedral is well attended: upwards of 1000 communicants are
connected with it. Service takes place in it several times a-day, and on
the Sunday evening a sermon is preached, which is intended to enlighten
and to win over such as are not connected with the church. Many
distinguished persons are office-bearers in the church, such as Admiral
Gambier, the Hon. Henry Parnell, J. P. Knight, R.A., Mr. Cooke, the
barrister, Major Macdonald; while Lady Dawson, Lady Bateman, Lady
Anderson, are amongst its members. Henry Drummond, the eccentric M.P.
for East Surrey, has the credit of being connected with this place; but,
while it is true that he is an Irvingite, it is not true that he is an
office-bearer of the church. Those who join the church offer a tenth of
their annual income towards its support, and this promise, it is
believed, year after year is faithfully kept. The Cathedral itself is an
evidence of the liberality of the people. Attached to the church is a
small, but very elegant, chapel, which is to be used on rare occasions,
and which was raised by the ladies, who contributed the magnificent sum
of 4000 pounds in aid of the work. The chief beauty of the church,
however, is the altar, which is carved out of all sorts of coloured
marble, and is superbly decorated. The service-book put into your hands
is called 'The Liturgy and Divine Offices of the Church,' but I do not
learn from the members of the body that they think themselves exclusively
the church, and that there is no salvation out of their pale. They
merely profess to be one portion of the church, to take within their
comprehensive fold members of all other churches; and this, to a very
considerable extent, has been the case. The Irvingites have taken their
converts not from the world, but the church. They have made proselytes,
not Christians: the members of other churches have come over to them. In
their ranks are many Dissenters and Churchmen, and amongst th