place into real activity is a difficult task, which at times staggers the ablest of men.  Mr. Brown is a scholar, and a thoroughly upright man.  He believes not in fighting down other people’s creeds; never rails against religious antagonists; has a natural dislike to platform bigotry and pulpit wrathfulness; is generously inclined; will give but not lend; objects to everything in the shape of loud clerical display; is strongly evangelical in his tastes; is exact, and calm, and orderly, even to the cut of his whiskers; won’t be brought out and exhibited; doesn’t care about seeing other people make exhibitions; and thinks every minister should mind his own business, and leave other people alone.  But he is far too good for a parson.  A gentle melancholy seems to have got hold of him.  He always preaches sincerely; a quiet spirit of simple unadorned, piety pervades his remarks—­but he depresses you too much; and is rather predisposed to a calm mournful consideration of the great sulphur question.  He never gets into a lurid passion, never horrifies, but calmly saddens you, in his discourses.  He is fond of quoting good old Richard Baxter and John Banyan, and he might have worse authorities.  But he is very serious, and his words sometimes chill like a condensation of Young’s “Night Thoughts.”  If he had more dash and blithesomeness in him, if he could fling a little more of this world’s logic into his sermons, if he would periodically blow his own trumpet very audibly, and make a smart “spread” now and then, he would gather force.  The best of things will sink if there be not some noise and show made about them.  If Mr. Brown knew the “Holloway’s Pills and Ointment” theory better than he does, he would have a fuller congregation; but he is too honest and too good for superficial emblazonry, and he believes in quietness.

Trinity Church has some excellent schools for boys, girls, and infants.  The attendance is only poor; but it is better than it was.  The boys’ school is improving; that of the girls is also recruiting the strength it lost last Whitsuntide but one, when a number of its attendants left in a body because Mr. Brown objected to a display of orange and blue ribbons which they were senselessly enamoured of; and with respect to the infants they are regularly growing in size if not in numbers.  Mrs. Brown, wife of the incumbent, not only industriously visits the district, like a genuine Christian lady as she is, but teaches in the girls school, and at intervals when at church—­here is an example for parsons’ wives—­looks after a number of the scholars personally, whilst her own servants are quietly occupying the family pew.  We could like to see both the church and the schools of Mr. Brown full; he has our best wishes in this respect; and we hope he may find some talisman by which the difficulty will be satisfactorily solved.

LANCASTER-ROAD CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL.