NATURAL HISTORY, TORONTO REGION 
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 Rev. William 
Morley Punshon, afterwards President of the Wes- 
leyan body in England. Many other beautiful and. 
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