had since i was a much as wine was to be desired on such an occasion and particularly for the stale fish there was no wine to be got until six o clock during this melancholy entertainment observed that he hoped we were all right about for he was advertised to preach at so many different places that one could never be quite sure was speechless with indignation but and i gave the young man so much of our minds as to induce him to confess he was only joking immediately after cheese we drove away in two to the music hall an hour s paying and for would smoke ensued before we reached lights and shadows our which seemed to e a long blank wall in a perfectly empty street an official person with his back against it informed us that only preached there in the mornings and that in the evenings he preached at his own chapel a mile or two off in who had quarrelled with coming along immediately began to walk back again without any remark and as we afterwards discovered had the misfortune to be near to the south western railway station we three drove on to the chapel the street in front of which was filled with masses of people not knowing that had previously paid the discharged the entire account over again from which circumstance much dispute arose between the two friends but there was no time to lose in inquiries if we were to hear that evening though we formed ourselves into a solid square of three we had much to keep our position in the crowd and could not advance one step the great iron gates in front of london life of the chapel were closed but two strong currents of people were flowing in by ticket at the a thoroughly notion as observed whose when disgusted is sarcasm presently the police let three great waves of outside folk through the main entrance and then the inexorable iron closed for good we were in the fourth wave next the bars a � one of those of whom is reported to have said resist the devil and he will fly from you but resist a and he will fly at you � here addressed us and implored us to go away mr himself has said that his chapel holds but twelve hundred to hear and two thousand to the two thousand are now in three streets off there is good doctrine a most respectable minister � chapel first turn on the left hand this announcement w s greeted by a general groan the sentiment of which was and not till the opening hymn � it sounded like a song of triumph � was raised by the fortunate inmates of the wished for vol ii p lights and shadows place did we in the street begin to melt away in and in those unknown ill paved regions i claim credit for myself and that we did not do for who appeased us however in some slight measure by standing for we had had no dinner in any high sense of the term � at the club on the sunday called upon me at breakfast time with two tickets admission for lord s day mornings to the temple of i glared at him for a moment or two and then consented to go it was a beautifully clear day the gardens in which the music hall was built were crisp with frost and their ornamental waters sparkled in the sun the scene was more like one in paris than in london and the vast of ticket among the statues and the and in front of the great model of the russian seemed pleasure rather than church the music hall itself with its hundred windows and long gilded galleries with its printed of cloak of london life refreshment rooms this way to the and so on which were suffered to remain in all their native contrasted strangely with the usual of religion amongst us two private boxes on either side the alone reminding one by a sort of of the grand old british upon the seats and the vast assemblage own particular flock were and where the conductor s box was wont to be was reared an enormous pen by way of pulpit how the folk kept in � for the most part well dressed � there were scarcely any poor among them � and quite as many as females the majority like ourselves with curious half smiling faces but a large too with very ones in whose chiefly feminine hands were a bible and a ticket neatly wrapped up in a pocket handkerchief these tickets by the by cost but twelve for a course of four sermons and it is fair to state go a very little way towards paying the hire of so vast a place which is expected to be by p lights and shadows the voluntary of the congregation at the doors the body of the hall and also the best seats in the galleries were filled before the gates were opened to the general public and the religious world rolled in upon us like a flood in ten minutes when the gates were closed again there was not an empty seat to be seen the whisper that this great crowd dropped in an instant and every man s head was is if by magic for we had come together some of us at least to worship and lo there was the preacher a middle sized person not above twenty five years old ji most heavy rather flat faced straight haired � but with what a voice without effort without perceptible lift even it filled that mighty temple with a volume of sound a short opening prayer somewhat remarkable for was followed by a hymn which a man with a fork gave out from the seats and the select few began 