He has gone to his rest--that sweet Zion to share With some of his flock awaiting him there; Like him let us labour, the right to uphold; Brave, patient, enduring, true-hearted, and bold. _Alfred Sargant._ The Rev. H. Guildford Sprigg, M.A., the present Vicar, commenced his duties, September, 1880. "Holy, holy, holy: Lord God of Sabaoth. Heaven and earth are full: Of the majesty of thy glory. The glorious company of the apostles: Praise thee. The goodly fellowship of the prophets: Praise thee. The noble army of martyrs: Praise thee. The holy church throughout all the world: Doth acknowledge thee." --_Te Deum laudamus._ "Serve the Lord with gladness: Come before his presence with singing."--_Psalm c._ 2. Mr. Lowres, of Plough Lane, an energetic City Missionary, has laboured in Christ Church district for nearly twelve years, and his local Superintendents were the Rev. S. Bardsley and the Rev. E. C. Ince. Mr. Warren, in an adjoining district, is another devoted Missionary. [Illustration: ST. JOHN'S CHURCH.] ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, Usk Road, was completed from the designs of Mr. E. C. Robins, selected in competition. It is a remarkably inexpensive church. It provides accommodation for about 750 persons at a cost of £4 10s. per head. The church received a grant from the Incorporative Society for Building Churches upon one-third of the sittings being made free. It is designed in the early English style, with nave, north and south aisles and apsidal chancel, a small western gallery and two bell turrets. Messrs. Sharpington and Cole were the builders, who executed the work for the sum of £3,300. (St. John's Parsonage was built by the same architect). The foundation stone of St. John's was laid August 6, 1862. The consecration and opening took place May 5th, 1863. The living is a Vicarage in the gift of the Vicar of St. Mary's. The area is 157 acres, and the population of the Ecclesiastical parish in 1871 was 7,839. The district assigned to the church was formed out of the parishes of St. Mary's Battersea, and St. Anne, Wandsworth, by an Order of Council bearing date July 27, 1863--(the register dates from this period). The new parish was legally constituted and named the Consolidated Chapelry of St. John, Battersea. The first Vicar of the new parish was the Rev. Edwin Thompson, D.D., who from beginning his work with services in a room in Price's Candle Factory, afterwards, lived to be instrumental in building the two Churches of St. John and St. Paul, together with the Schools in Usk Road, erected 1866, and Parsonage House, Wandsworth Common; a noble monument of his untiring energy and zeal. He died suddenly February 2nd, 1876, aged 51 years. The present Vicar of St. John's is the Rev. William John Mills Ellison, M.A., Wadham College, Oxford.