merged, in
1854, in the Diocesan Church Building Society. During the twenty-eight
years of his episcopate, Bishop Blomfield consecrated 108 churches in
London. The whole number of churches ten years ago, writes Mr. Bosanquet
in 1868, was only 498. Now Churchmen aim at absorbing the entire
metropolis. "But in order to secure for every 2000 of our population one
clergyman," said the present Archbishop of Canterbury in 1867, "we shall
need twice as many additional clergymen as we have yet, with a
proportionate number of schools." And here as elsewhere it seems to be
true that supply creates demand. As soon as a church is opened it is
well filled.

The Bishop of Winchester's Fund, also known as the South London Church
Extension Fund, is a similar effort to supply the spiritual need of that
part of London which belongs to the diocese of Winchester.

THE DEAF AND DUMB AT CHURCH.

In London there are two thousand persons born deaf and dumb. To the
sweet music of speech, whether in the way of conversation or lecture,
grave or gay, or song however sacred and Divine, they are insensible. It
follows almost as a natural consequence that they are mute, that from
their lips can never come the thoughts that breathe and words that burn.
It is almost impossible for us to measure adequately the greatness of
their loss or the depth of their desolation. How in some degree to make
it up to them, to raise them in the scale of being, to teach them to
think, and feel, and learn, and to enable them to communicate to others
the results, is certainly not one of the least praiseworthy of the many
praiseworthy Christian efforts of our day. With this view two courses of
action have been followed. A Jewish school has been established at 44,
Burton Crescent, where the system of teaching by articulation and
lip-reading is pursued. For some time a similar system has been in
successful operation in Rotterdam. As to the merits of the system a warm
dispute has been for a considerable time in progress in America. Its
advocates tell us that when these results shall have been made known, and
the attention of the philanthropist and man of science shall have been
directed to them, the days of the old system of dactylology, or
communication by the aid of fingers, will be numbered. They ask,
triumphantly, What parents will be content that their children shall
continue to communicate their thoughts and wishes by the aid of signs,
when it c