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hibit a terribly technical narrowness; with the encir have been so. The present renowned and vener cling current of external events and circumstances able occupant of the office is Dr. Vaughan, a man they had simply no contact at all. Now much of who as much as any one for the last forty years this excessive professionalism has disappeared, and has conspicuously sustained the dignified traditions we find that papers mainly conceived for a special of the Anglican pulpit. With the Master of the class of readers command the interest and atten Temple is associated the " Reader," whose duties tion of a much wider public. Personally I should are to conduct the liturgical part of the service on hope that Mr. Edmunds would endeavor to secure all occasions, and preach as well on Sunday after for his paper a position of power and influence noon. The Master of the Temple preaches on outside even the tolerably extended bounds of the Sunday morning. We are losing Canon Ainger, who has been reader for many years; he has been Knglish-speaking legal profession. I doubt if your readers realize what careful appointed to an important living in Oxford. His provision is made for the religious necessities of sermons have always been listened to by large and members of the Temple. Of the glories of the admiring congregations, and his reputation as an ecclesiastical elocutionist is second to none. For Temple Church with its pure Norman porch con the vacancy there are said to be four hundred secrated in the twelfth and the rest of it in the fol lowing century, not a few American travellers are candidates in the field, so that the benchers of the perfectly familiar. But the authorities of the Middle Temple with whom is the patronage will Inner and the Middle Temples are not content have no easy task of selection, if they propose with merely maintaining this picturesque fabric of weighing the merits of each individual applicant. the past in fit structural array; they watch over The services at the Temple Church are also noted the due conduct of religious worship within its for the excellence of the music, which is of the walls as zealously as could any bishop. The ornate Anglican type; the widely known organist, preacher enjoys the proud name of Master of the Dr. Hopkins, being himself a composer of no small Temple; and at one time I imagine he may really merit.