INTRODUCTION.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER II. the jews .

CHAPTER III. the reformed jews .

CHAPTER IV. the greek church .

CHAPTER V. the roman catholics .

CHAPTER VI. the church of england .

CHAPTER VII. among the presbyterians . At Colebrook Row .

CHAPTER VIII. congregationalists and baptists .

CHAPTER IX. the unitarians .

CHAPTER X. the wesleyan methodists .

CHAPTER XI. the quakers .

CHAPTER XII. the moravians in fetter lane .

CHAPTER XIII. the swedenborgians .

CHAPTER XIV. the irvingites , or apostolical church .

CHAPTER XV. the free christian union .

CHAPTER XVI. the london ecclesia .

CHAPTER XVII. some minor sects .

CHAPTER XVIII. advanced religionists . The Church of Progress.

CHAPTER XIX. the irregulars .

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

by
J. EWING RITCHIE,
author of “british senators,” “the night side of london,” etc.

      “’Tis Nature’s law
That none, the meanest of created things,
Of form created the most vile and brute,
The dullest or most noxious, should exist
Divorced from good.”

Wordsworth.

LONDON:
TINSLEY BROTHERS, 18, CATHERINE STREET, STRAND.
1870.

london:
savill, edwards and co., chandos street,
covent garden.

to
SAMUEL MORLEY, Esq., M.P.
to whose unexampled activity and munificence
(by no means confined within his own denomination)
much of the religious life of london is due,
this volume is respectfully dedicated
by
THE AUTHOR.