ting his arms on. Each seat is beautifully finished, as the reader
can well imagine when he is told that the carving of each seat cost about
eight pounds about fifteen years ago, when the chapel was first opened.
There are no sittings appropriated to particular individuals, any person
coming takes the first he finds vacant. All expenses are paid by the
men, chiefly merchants in Finsbury Square, who subscribe on an average
for the cost of the service about twenty-five pounds a year. Two
gentlemen contributed eighty, and one as much as two hundred pounds, a
year. The annual income of the church is stated to be 1660_l._, and of
this 50_l._ or 60_l._ has to be paid to an English church over the way--a
grievance which the Greeks, as well they may, feel deeply. There is
another Greek church in London, that of the Russian Embassy,--that of
course being much smaller. It cannot, I should fancy, surpass in
neatness and finish this in London Wall. The Greek Church, Dean Stanley
tells us, has always been unfriendly to the arts. You would not think
so; the building seems just what it should be--handsome, ecclesiastical
in appearance, and yet plain. On the screen, behind which is the altar,
are paintings of the "Last Supper," "The Virgin and her Child," and a few
others, intended to denote to the eye of the worshipper the great fact
the worship has to commemorate. Pictures are used but as symbols, as
even words themselves are, of ideas needed for human salvation.

The Greek Church protests against anything in the way of doctrine not
found in the Bible. Surely it cannot claim the same sanction for its
rites and ceremonies. As each worshipper entered he made the sign of the
cross on his forehead and his shoulders and breast. This ceremony was
repeated several times in the course of the service, the priest on more
than one occasion doing the same; indeed, this seems to be the only way
in which the laity join in the service. They utter no responses, they
declare with one voice no creed, they raise no sacred chant or song;
otherwise, they stand as it were motionless and apart; everything is done
for them by the officiating priest. He comes between them and God. They
speak through him and by him; without him they cannot worship the Father
in heaven. Such is the theory of worship current in the Greek Church.
Thus was it when the Imperial purple was worn by Constantine fifteen
hundred years ago; thus it is in the reign of Quee