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    thenism , ' even within a morning ride of Fulham and Lambeth ! Although the facility with which Americans emigrate , may sometimes interfere with the adaptation of the reli gious supply to the want , yet the former seems to adjust itself with surprising activity . A town , however recent , of from two to three hundred inhabitants , is rarely to be met with , if ever , without a place of worship . But the supply afforded by our Establishment defies

    all proportion , whether of space or population , or both combined . The same provision is made for Eccles ( Lancashire ) which contains 23 , 331 persons , and for Egmore ( Norfolk ) which contains 47 persons . Norfolk has a church for every 2 j square miles , and every 504 inhabitants ; Northumberland has only one church for every 19 square miles , and every 2 , 020 inhabitants .

    Lancashire has a church for every 6 ^ square miles , and for every 3 , 665 inhabitants . Rutland has one church for every 462 inhabitants , and Middlesex only one for every 9 , 490 inhabitants ; the ratio of miles being 3 . 72 to 1 . 12 . And this the Bishop calls having preachers ' stationed at intervals throu ghout the country ;' so that he can assume , for his argument , the whole land to be sentinelled with faithful , able , exemplary watchmen of the Lord . ' Perhaps a temporal reason might be found to explain the location of the sentry-boxes .

    Or Amongst the religious advantages of the people of the United States , there is one not noticed b y the Bishop , which is of considerable value . We mean the religious newspapers which are now so common in that country . The absence of that nefarious tax to which we are subjected , allows all sects there to provide for the information and instruction of their members , by means of the press as well as of the pulpit . All religious denominations employ this means , and some to a considerable extent . These journals meddle with little except religious , moral , and philanthropic subjects . They are a vehicle for constant communication between the teachers and the tau ght ; a pulpit in print , which eventually may prove the more efficient pulpit of the two . The short and well-written papers which they contain , are far more likely to be useful than most sermons .

    1 here is another and a noble advance upon our methods of diffusing religious knowledge and consolation , which has been made in America—the establishment of a free ministry for the poor . There , first , have men been set apart for the blessed work of going into the dark corners and by-ways of social life , to seek and to save that which was lost . That admirable philanthropist , Dr . Tuckerman , of Boston , commenced this domestic mission ; and , in different places and by different denominations , has the truly Christian example been followed . Poverty in the States is not what it is here , either as to numbers or wretchedness . The humble petition for ' leave to toil" will there rarely meet with the

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    256 On the Bishop of London ' s

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1834, page 256, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2632/page/24/