hills, and is about eleven miles from the Market street ferry in San Francisco.  To reach it you go by ferry to the Oakland pier and then take the cars on the Southern Pacific road.”  As I gazed northward, there, as a right arm of Oakland, was the classic town with its aristocratic name, nestling at the foot of the hills in the midst of trees and flowers.  It was like a dainty picture with the Bay in the foreground.  A nearer view or a visit to it brings the traveller into line with the Golden Gate, through which his eye wanders straight out into the Pacific ocean with all its mystery and grandeur.  The University of California was organised by an act of the Legislature in 1868.  A law passed then set apart for its work $200,000, proceeds from the sale of tide lands.  To this endowment was added the sum of $100,000, from a “Seminary and Public Building Fund.”  There was also applied to the new university another fund of $120,000, realised from the old college of California, which had been organised in 1855.  Then by an act of Congress appropriating 150,000 acres of land for an Agricultural College, which is a part of the equipment of the University, it became still richer.  It embraces 250 acres within the area of its beautiful grounds, and so has ample room for expansion.  It has departments of Letters, Science, Agriculture, Mechanics, Engineering, Chemistry, Mining, Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Astronomy and Law.  The famous Lick Observatory, stationed on Mount Hamilton near San Jose, is a part of the institution.  It has prospered greatly under its present efficient President, Benjamin Ide Wheeler, LL.D.; and it now has three hundred instructors, with over three thousand students.  Tuition is free to all students except in the professional departments.  It has a splendid library of seventy-three thousand volumes.  It will be readily seen that with such an institution of learning, and with the Leland Stanford Jr.  University, at Palo Alto, the State of California is giving diligent attention to matters of education.  While also there are the various schools and academies and seminaries of the different denominations, it may be said that the church is not backward in this respect.  St. Margaret’s School for girls, and St. Matthew’s School for boys, as well as the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, at San Mateo, where Bishop Nichols resides, and the Irving Institute for girls, and Trinity School in San Francisco, are an evidence of what she is doing for the welfare of the people intellectually, aside from her spiritual ministrations in the dioceses of California and Los Angeles and the Missionary Jurisdiction of Sacramento.  Mr. Young was forward to mention the fact that in Berkeley there is the large and influential parish of Saint Mark with a list of nearly four hundred communicants; and this is a great factor for good in the life of such a unique University town.  As my eyes turned away from Berkeley, I naturally recalled the great Bishop of Cloyne, after whom the