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352 Clergy remained to take part in the services during the rest of the week, and on Sunday.

I should like to add that, amongst the full and careful reports in our daily papers of the proceedings of the Dedication Festival, and a description of the building, nothing pleased me more than words of this sort: "In these days it is often said that the Church is losing hold of the people and she needs to adapt herself to modern ways of thought and modern conditions of life. There may be something in this. But looking to the work which is being done in St. Mary's Young Men's Society, and the Sunday Schools, and the evident interest which the young take in their Church and its progress, there is every reason for the happy anticipation of the future which marked yesterday's proceedings. The day outside the church was overcast; inside it was full of sunshine."

I am, Yours ever, H. W. H.