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sounds to the tramp of many feet, instead of being left to desolating emptiness which characterized it formerly. From under that ancient pulpit the maw of a huge brass instrument projects itself; a bass drum is seen reared against the legs of a grand piano ; a magic lantern and Kinetoscope is descried in the organ loft and before it stretches a huge white sheet supported by the fluted columns of the church. The brass instrument under the pulpit is called a “ monsterphone. ” It performs pieces of music for the entertainment of the congregation—not necessarily sacred music—and it varies its programme with an occasional address, not exclusively on spiritual themes. For the special edification of a Daily Mail representative it gave a capital rendering of Mendelssohn's “Wedding March," followed by an address by the archbishop of Canterbury couched in simple, telling language, such as his intended hearers would understand. The Kinetoscope in the organ loft throws moving pictures on the screen stretched across the center aisle, and when service is being held, Capt. R. Coleman, sometimes with the aid of a speaking trumpet, explains the incident depicted. A skilled pianist presides at the grand piano, a numerous stringed orchestra ranged before the altar per- forms pieces of music that are known in every household, the bass drum booms and echoes through the venerable pile, and the Rev. W. Carlile, or some other preacher, tells his congregation some plain home truths—no subtle, • theological hairsplitting, no didactics, but straight rhetorical blows from the shoulder. Such is the scene that may be witnessed at St. Mary- at-Hill during the dinner hour on any week day, except Saturday, and every Sunday evening. It is the Rev. Mr.