The  preacher  still  persisted  to  read  his  text,  but  was
quite  inaudible ;  and  the  row  increased,  some  of  the
congregation  waving  their  hats,  standing  on  the  seats,
jumping  over  them,  bawling,  roaring,  and  gesticulat-
ing, like  a  mob  at  an  election.  The  reverend  gentle-
man, in  the  midst  of  the  confusion,  despatched  a
message  to  the  mayor,  requesting  his  assistance,  when
one  of  the  congregation  addressed  the  people,  and  also
requested  the  preacher  to  remove  the  cause  of  the  ill-
feeling  which  had  been  excited.  Then  another  addressed
him  in  no  measured  terms,  and  insisted  on  his  leaving
the  pulpit.  At  length  the  mayor,  the  superintendent
of  the  police,  several  constables,  also  the  chancellor  and
the  archdeacon,  arrived.  The  mayor  enforced  silence,
and,  after  admonishing  the  people,  requested  the  clergy-
man to  leave  the  pulpit  for  a  few  minutes,  which  he


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declined  to  do, — gave  out  bis  text,  and  proceeded  with
his  discourse.  The  damage  done  to  the  interior  of  the
church  is  said  to  be  very  considerable."  I  believe  I  am
right  in  supposing  that  the  surplice  has  vanished  from
that  pulpit  from  that  day  forward.  Here,  at  length,
certainly  are  signs  of  life,  but  not  the  life  of  the
Catholic  Church.
And  now  to  draw  my  conclusion  from  what  I  have
been  following  out,  if  I  have  not  sufficiently  done  so
already.  If,  my  brethren,  your  reason,  your  faith,
your  affections,  are  indissolubly  bound  up  with  the
holy  principles  which  you  have  been  taught,  if  you
know  they  are  true,  if  you  know  their  life  and  their
power,  if  you  know  that  nothing  else  is  true ;  surely
you  have  no  portion  or  sympathy  with  systems  which
reject  them.  Seek  those  principles  in  their  true  home.
