The Moravian Brethren, who date from 1772, with Count Zinzendorf at their head (and who have no reason for their separate existence save the fact that, when they appealed to the lot as to whether they should join the Lutherans or not, the lot was against the junction), have 2 chapels and 1100 sittings. The Jews have 11 synagogues and 3692 sittings. The remaining congregations, with the exception of the Mormonites, who have now 33 places of worship, are almost exclusively isolated. There are 94 chapels that thus defy classification; nor can we be surprised that such is the case. Our boast is, that every man is free to worship God according to the dictates of his own heart—that religious inquiry is unfettered amongst us—that every man who chooses may form a sect for himself. The advantages of this state of things preponderate over its disadvantages. The philosopher may despise, and the Christian of a generous heart and catholic aspirations may regret, that such should be the case—may think it better that men had wider views—better that we should stand on a broader platform than a sectarian one: but we may not quarrel with the conditions of religious existence. We must feel that these sects and schisms denote religious life and thought—that their absence would be death—and that, as the world grows and the truth becomes clearer, they will, one by one, disappear. ‘Thus star by star departs, Till all have pass’d away; And daylight high and higher shines, Till pure and perfect day. Nor sink those stars in empty night, But hide themselves in heaven’s own light.’ The 94 chapels we have referred to, belonging to the New Church, the Brethren, the Irvingites, the Latter-Day Saints, Sandemanians, Lutherans, French Protestants, Greeks, Germans, Italians, have accommodation for 18,833. Of course some of these people have but little reason to give for the faith that is in them. Actually, in this age of intelligence—in these days of cheap literature and cheap schools—there are men and women so sunk in ignorance as to credit the absurd pretensions of Joanna Southcote or Joe Smith; but these people we must include. We sit in judgment on none; and thus we give the church and chapel goers, as follows: Church of England 409,834 Congregationalists 100,436 Baptists 54,234 Methodists 60,696 Presbyterians 18,211 Unitarians 3,300 Roman Catholics 18,230 Quakers 3,157 Moravians 1,100 Jews 3,692 Isolated Congregations 18,833 691,723