PAGE PREFACE 7 I. FORMING THE CHURCH 11 II. CONSOLIDATION: THE FIRST MINISTRY 29 III. A BRIEF MINISTRY.—REV. JOHN CLAYTON 43 IV. SIXTEEN YEARS OF SPIRITUAL PROGRESS.—REV. JOHN 53 LEIFCHILD V. PROSPERITY UNDER DR. VAUGHAN 67 VI. ENLARGING OUR BORDERS.—REV. DR. STOUGHTON 81 VII. A GRACIOUS MINISTRY.—DR. RALEIGH 101 VIII. PLANTING A NEW CHURCH.—REV. C. B. SYMES 115 IX. A NOTABLE INTERVAL.—REV. EDWARD WHITE 131 X. “TO BE CONTINUED.”—MR. HORNE 143 XI. EPILOGUE 153 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS KENSINGTON CHAPEL _Frontispiece_ PAGE HORNTON STREET CHAPEL 14 THE FIRST COMMUNION CUPS 39 PORTRAIT OF REV. JOHN CLAYTON 46 PORTRAIT OF REV. DR. JOHN LEIFCHILD 56 PORTRAIT OF REV. DR. ROBERT VAUGHAN 70 PORTRAIT OF REV. DR. JOHN STOUGHTON 84 HORBURY CHAPEL, NOTTING HILL 93 PORTRAIT OF REV. DR. ALEXANDER RALEIGH 104 PORTRAIT OF REV. COLMER B. SYMES 118 WEST KENSINGTON CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH 125 PORTRAIT OF REV. EDWARD WHITE 134 PORTRAIT OF REV. C. SILVESTER HORNE 146 KENSINGTON CHAPEL (INTERIOR) 154 I—FORMING THE CHURCH [Picture: Hornton Street Chapel. From Photo. by Mr. S. Davie]