red, Poultry, and St. Mary, Colechurch, reports that
the largest attendance at his service is 30, his net income 280 pounds,
and the population 600. The Rev. Thomas Darling, rector of St. Michael
Paternoster Royal and St. Martin's Vintry, reports that his largest
attendance is 25, his net income 240 pounds, population 430. The Rev.
Dr. Kynaston, high master of St. Paul's School, reports that the
attendance at the church of the joint parishes of St. Nicholas Cole Abbey
and St. Nicholas Olave, of which he is rector, is 30, his income 263
pounds, with a house in good repair, population 592. The Rev. Charles
Mackenzie, rector of the joint parishes of St. Benet, Gracechurch, and
St. Leonard, Eastcheap, states the attendance at 48, net income 287
pounds, population 300. The Rev. Dr. Stebbing, rector of St. Mary
Somerset and St. Mary Woolchurch Haw, reports that his largest attendance
is 40, net income 250 pounds, population unknown. The Rev. Thomas Jones,
rector of Allhallows, Lombard-street, reports that his largest attendance
is 50, his net income 396 pounds, population 456. The Rev. F. J.
Stainforth, incumbent of Allhallows Staining, reports that his largest
attendance is 50, net income 800 pounds, population 500. Many more of
the same sort might be given from the official returns, and in some cases
there is an attendance of 100 or 150 persons where the income of the
incumbent is upwards of 1,000 pounds a year.

One reason of this wretched state of things we have hinted at. The
removal of the city population, we may be told, is another: but the
population in the neighbourhood of these places is sufficient to fill
them were the population given to church-going. With all due deference,
we would fain ask the clergy if they do not fail to attract the public,
owing to their themes and manner of treating them? Some preachers always
manage to bring in the Old Testament dispensation. The preacher is
dwelling among the priests and Levites: perpetually he tells you what the
Jews did and did not; how they were a stiff-necked people; how they went
after strange gods; how their nation was blotted out, and their temple
razed to the ground, and their very name became a reproach. Man needs
not the Hebrew learning, but the Christian faith; not the voice that
thundered from Sinai, but the accents of mercy that were heard on Calvary
in that awful hour when the earth trembled, when the grave gave up its
dead, when the veil of the T