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rites, and "resembled a high-piled house of cards."" 

 Sharon was some distance north of the city, but 

 the leader used to drive into town periodically 

 with his seraphic band, and treat the citizens to- 

 a procession of the " Children of Peace," followed 

 by a sermon on the depravity of public affairs. By 

 virtue of their name let them live in David's record 

 "one day more," recalling, like the tufa hills in 

 the Hackensack Valley, an outburst of long-forgotten 

 fervour. 



The archiepiscopal church of St. Michael has 

 been compared to York Minster, and has stained glass 

 windows that came from Munich, although they do 

 not equal those in the Frauenkirche. Among the 

 Anglican places of worship the most notable are the 

 mother church of St. James, whose spire (316 feet) 

 was for years the highest on the continent, the cathe- 

 dral of St. Albans in process of erection, and Arch- 

 deacon Cody's beautiful new Gothic church of St. 

 Paul's, the third enlargement (a definitive edition,, 

 let us hope) of that " house of prayer " since 1900.. 

 The Metropolitan Methodist Church is beautifully 

 placed in Magill Square on Queen Street East, and 

 has one of the largest organs in America. This im- 

 posing pile has the distinction of having set the fash- 

 ion for large and handsome churches in Toronto, and 

 is itself due to the good taste of the late Kev. William 

 Morley Punshon, afterwards President of the Wes- 

 leyan body in England. Many other beautiful and 

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