“Nearly twenty Churches in Paris were taken possession of; but by occupying so many, they injured themselves.... They took up too extended a position, and had neither numbers nor means answerable to the scale upon which they set out.... Their _Service_ began at noon, and lasted about an hour and a half. It was, they said, a worship for those who had no other, and a moral society for those who had. The _Ritual_ consisted of Prayers, Hymns original or selected from the best French Poets, readings from their Manual, and Discourses. The _Hymns_ were, in general, judicious, and set to good music, and the _Prayers_ well composed; but had their books been stript of all that they had borrowed from the Gospel, and from the works of Christian writers, they would have been meagre indeed. In one part of the Service there was a short pause, during which the congregation were expected to consider each in silence what his own conduct had been since the last of these meetings. A basket of fruit or flowers, according to the season, was placed upon the altar, as a mark of acknowledgment for the bounties of the Creator; and over the altar was the inscription, _Nous croyons à l’existence de Dieu, et à l’immortalité de l’âme_.... LA RÉVEILLÈRE, in a speech at the Institute, declaiming against Christianity, as being opposed to the liberty of mankind, expressed his wish that a form of religion were adopted, which should have only _a couple of articles_. He wished also for a religion without priests; and this, it was pleasantly observed, would be like a Directory without a Director. “This was the _Creed of the Theophilanthropists_. And on each side of it, the following sentences were inscribed in their temples, to take place of the Decalogue:— “‘Adore God, cherish your fellow-creatures; render yourselves useful to your country. Good is whatever tends to preserve man, or to perfectionate him. Evil is whatever tends to destroy him, or to deteriorate him. Children, honour your fathers and mothers; obey them with affection, solace their old age. Fathers and mothers, instruct your children. Wives, behold in your husbands the heads of your houses. Husbands, love your wives, and render yourselves mutually happy.’