is a river_, _the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God_.” As political storms roared around, the Kensington company enjoyed that Divine consolation. The names of the first communicants are preserved, and in the course of the year 1795 eight others were added. In 1796 nine more, in 1797 five, and in 1798 three. One of the earliest members was a Mrs. Schmae whose husband was living when I went to reside in Kensington. He was a pious old man, full of faith, hope, and love; and when I visited him on his death bed, he told me he had been many years member of Dr. Steinkopf’s Lutheran Church in the Savoy, and showed me a German Bible he valued, which was given to me by the family after his death. The principal persons in the management of affairs at the earliest period were Messrs. Forsyth, Broadwood, and Grey, all Scotch Presbyterians. Mr. Broadwood was the famous pianoforte maker. Mr. Grey was a proprietor of the “Brompton Park Nursery,” spoken of as famous for plants of all sorts, “which supply most of the nobility and gentry and gentlemen in England.” John Evelyn visited the nursery in 1694, with Mr. Waller, who “was in admiration at the store of plants, and how well the nursery was cultivated.” Amongst early secular incidents connected with the chapel, was an attempt made on the part of the parish to include the building in the poor-rate assessment. This was in 1795. But the trustees resisted the imposition; and on the case being considered by the magistrates at Hicks Hall, they decided that the place being supported by voluntary contributions, could not be justly liable to the parish rate. Similar attempts were made afterwards, with a similar result.