but not even of this beauty can the Church of England boast. Dr. Döllinger—a more thoughtful, a more learned, a more laborious writer—is not more flattering. The Church of England, he tells us, is “the Church only of a fragment of the nation,” of “the rich, cultivated, and fashionable classes.” It teaches “the religion of deportment, of gentility, of clerical reserve.” “In its stiff and narrow organization, and all want of pastoral elasticity, it feels itself powerless against the masses.” The patronage is mostly in the hands of the nobility and gentry, who regard it as a means of provision for their younger sons, sons-in-law, and cousins. Our latest critic, M. Esquiros, writes in a more favourable strain, yet even he confesses how the city operative shuns what he deems the Church of Mammon, and draws a picture of the English clergyman, by no means suggestive of zeal in the Master’s service or readiness to bear His yoke. Dissent foreigners generally ignore, yet Dissent is as active, as energetic as the State Church, and may claim that it has practically realized the question of our time—the Free Church in the Free State. In thus attempting to describe the Religious Life of London, I touch on a question of which I may briefly say that it concerns the welfare of the community at large. IVY COTTAGE, BALLARD’S LANE, FINCHLEY, _April_ 4_th_, 1870. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE ON HERESY AND ORTHODOXY 1 CHAPTER II. THE JEWS 16 CHAPTER III. THE REFORMED JEWS 37 CHAPTER IV. THE GREEK CHURCH 47 CHAPTER V. THE ROMAN CATHOLICS 58 CHAPTER VI. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND 76 THE DEAF AND DUMB AT CHURCH 87 A SUNDAY IN JAIL 93 HIGH CHURCH REVIVALISTS 100 A SUNDAY WITH THE LUNATICS 107 LAY WORK IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND 113 AN EVANGELICAL PREACHER 121 CHAPTER VII. AMONG THE PRESBYTERIANS:— AT COLEBROOK ROW 131 PARK CHURCH, HIGHBURY 139 CHAPTER VIII. CONGREGATIONALISTS AND BAPTISTS 146 THE SEVENTH-DAY BAPTISTS 159 CHRISTMAS MORNING WITH THE YOUNGSTERS 169 DR. PARKER AT THE POULTRY 177 MR. LYNCH’S THURSDAY EVENINGS 187 CHAPTER IX. THE UNITARIANS 193 AGGRESSIVE UNITARIANS 204