Sentence:  When I rode through the streets of your giant-like town (applause), and when I saw the many churches which heave their towers up stairs (cheers), I thought, the English are a very <WSD>churchical</WSD> people (loud cheers). I therefore wonder not that you also are an educational people, for religion is the mother of education, and where there are many churches, there we may expect that there are also many schools. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Pertaining to or characteristic of church; ecclesiastical.