In the suburbs of the Metropolis, Dissenters have built about
one hundred chapels, the average room of which is not more than MS The demand, however, according to well-ascertained statistics, was, and is, church-room for 800,000 persons. The Voluntary system has provided for 30,000—i. e. for less than a twentieth part ; and yet, with brazen effrontery, its pulpits, and platforms, and magazines, and pample lets, and reviews, echo with lo triumphes on the greatness of Volunta- ryism, and fervent protests against the State doing any thing to en- lighten 770,000 souls I Ex. yr. The three parishes of' Marylebone, Paddington, and Pancras, contain a population of :2:34.294. Thirty-four years ago it was mere pasture-land. Now, what has the Voluntary principle done for upwards of a quarter of a million of souls ? The answer is, there are seventeen chapels, mixed and motley to it degree, each capable of containing on an average 300. In other words, out of 234,294, the Voluntary principle has furnished room for upwards of 5,000.-1'raser's Magazine,
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