ntrast to the unconcerned look of the indifferent. As the chaplain
visits them all the week, and reads prayers to them every day, his
influence must of course, whether in the pulpit or out, be great. Be
this as it may, to many it is manifest that to them has arisen unmixed
advantage from spending a Sunday in jail.

HIGH CHURCH REVIVALISTS.

What is a mission? In a book of the mission edited by the Society of St.
John the Evangelist, at Cowley, Oxford, I read--1. It is a special call
from God. "Jonah preached a mission to Nineveh, and the whole city
repented and was saved. Lot preached one night to Sodom, but they would
not hearken, and were destroyed by fire." 2. It is a time of special
grace. The men who have devoted twelve days to a mission in London have
taken a bold and brave step in connexion with the Church of England. As
much as Sodom or Nineveh, London, with its pauperism, and vice, and
crime; with its nobles stooping to the foul companionship of the jockey
and the courtesan; with its high-born daughters rushing to see _Formosa_
at Drury Lane; with its merchant princes deeming it no disgrace to be
honest as the world goes, or as the times will allow--needs if it would
be saved from the fearful fate of Sodom, or the decline of Nineveh, that
it should be specially preached to and called on everywhere to repent.
For twelve days, then, some hundred churches have been open nearly all
day long, in addition to the Sunday services, which have been conducted
as usual. At All Saints, Margaret Street, for instance, the first
service began at a quarter to seven in the morning, and the last did not
close till past nine P.M. Church people are not partial to innovations.
It was only this week a lady was complaining to the writer that in the
parish in which she resided a week-evening service had been introduced.
As if two services on a Sunday were not quite enough. And truly, as
times go, she had reason to complain. Two such sermons as one generally
hears read in that lackadaisical, sing-song manner, which seems to be the
only thing clerical the raw curate picks up at Oxford or Cambridge, are
quite enough. If such were the preachers employed in the recent mission
(I see their number is set down at forty-eight), it must have proved a
failure. At All Saints, so far from the mission being a failure, it has
been, I should think, a success. I have always respected the Ritualistic
clergy; I have always given them