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numbers, and in their influence for good, with the growth of the population, until to-day 

 we every-where see in Australian cities tall spires lifting their towers against the sky, 

 and imposing buildings adding to the beauty of our streets, and proclaiming in the most 



THE INTERIOR OF THE ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL OF ST. ANDREW'S. SYDNEY. 



substantial way the reality of the faith of those who erected these splendid monuments. 

 The earlier descriptive pages of this book give in detail the results of all this zeal and 

 enterprise, since in every centre of population we find the religious element variously 



