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occasions in the year when the world, so to speak, gives dispensation to anyone to attend church without being considered religious on the Harvest Thanksgiving and the Midnight Service on New Year s Eve. On these occasions anyone may come without being jeered at, and also when there is a wedding or a funeral. Our object has been and is the conversion and sanctification of souls. We are loyal members of the Church of England, being firmly convinced that she is the catholic Church in this country. We preach and teach the catholic faith in all its fulness and in all its power, and we have the blessing of seeing before our eyes the constant witness of the power of the Holy Spirit on the conversion of souls from a life of sin and wickedness to a life lived in and by the strength and power of the Holy Ghost.&quot;

&quot; What sort of accommodation had you when you first came?&quot;

&quot;It was very poor. One thing I early dis covered, and that was that if people were to work in East London they must live in East London, and they must have decent houses to live in or else their health would surely suffer. It was these considerations that made a proper Clergy House and a Mission House imperative necessities. When I came the only building was the church, with a large hall underneath. Some wretched dwellings on the site reserved for the parsonage served for the Mission House, and that was all.

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