Of the necessity for an improvement in the arrangements of the church no one can be more thoroughly convinced than myself. In spite of the care with which the services have been for many years conducted, the attendance at our Parish Church has always been a duty rather than a pleasure. The inconvenience of the principal entrances to the church, placed as they are close to the very communion rails; the extreme difficulty of kneeling in the high and narrow pews in which seat-holders are now impounded; the position of the choir in the western gallery, in rear, instead of in face, of the congregation; the lofty reading desk, from which the prayers seem to be preached rather than prayed; the cramped space about the holy table by which the celebration of the Communion is rendered most inconvenient; the galleries which disfigure the interior, and destroy the sense of the oneness of the whole congregation; these and other defects are too obvious to need enforcing here. The Trustees have wisely recognised their existence and their scheme is a proposal to remove them. In this every member of the congregation will heartily support them. It is to the second point involved in their proposals that I wish to draw the attention of the parishioners—the assumed dangerous condition of the Tower. The Tower was erected with the church about a century and a quarter ago, and is not only of very good proportions but is remarkably well built. There is not a symptom of failure in it from top to bottom. Careful and repeated examinations of it have convinced me that it is as sound as a bell throughout, and that at the present time it is in every respect in as good condition as when it was first completed. Any person who takes the trouble to examine the building may see for himself that the cracks, which appear in the eastern part of the church, are not in the Tower itself, but only in the walls that abut upon it. They are simply the result of the greater weight of the Tower, which has caused it to subside to a certain extent, and so to crack the walls of the church, and of the staircases, which being lighter, have undergone no settlement.