evening. In the case of Roman Catholics, we have
given the number of persons attending in the morning, there being this
difference between them and other sects, that with the latter, the number
of sittings will be generally much greater than that of the attendants,
whereas with the Roman Catholics the reverse is the truth, as they get
more out of their chapels than any other denomination can.

It seems the mild, drab-coloured men, who call themselves Quakers, and
wear broad-brimmed hats and square collars, and say 'thee' and 'thou,' of
whom Belgravia knows but little, but who, nevertheless, are foremost when
some great good is to be done, and some outcast class is to be reclaimed
and saved, are but a feeble folk, as far as numbers are concerned. The
'youngest of the four surviving sects which trace their origin to that
prolific period which closed the era of the Reformation,' they promise to
be soonest extinguished. In 1800 they possessed 413 meeting-houses; in
1851 they had but 351. Mr. Low gives them 9 chapels; Mr. Mann but 4,
with sittings for 3151. This latter number, small as it is, appears to
be considerably more than is required for their services. The real
truth, probably, is, that Quaker worship is too calm and phlegmatic for
this bustling go-a-head age. In George Fox's time, men held communion
with the Invisible and Eternal--with Him who dwells in the light to which
no man can approach. There are but few who care to do so now, and
therefore is it that that race of practical philanthropists was far
larger in George Fox's time than ours. As to the other sects, it is
scarcely necessary that we do more than take a very hasty glance at them.

The Moravian Brethren, who date from 1772, with Count Zinzendorf at their
head (and who have no reason for their separate existence save the fact
that, when they appealed to the lot as to whether they should join the
Lutherans or not, the lot was against the junction), have 2 chapels and
1100 sittings.

The Jews have 11 synagogues and 3692 sittings.

The remaining congregations, with the exception of the Mormonites, who
have now 33 places of worship, are almost exclusively isolated.

There are 94 chapels that thus defy classification; nor can we be
surprised that such is the case. Our boast is, that every man is free to
worship God according to the dictates of his own heart--that religious
inquiry is unfettered amongst us--that every man who chooses may form a
s