Fronde was thinking of his own father, the Archdeacon of Tomes. In ...

Fronde was thinking of his own father, the Archdeacon of Tomes. In 1860 H. F. Tozer wrote of Norway, 'The priest's residence is usually the nicest house in the neighborhood, and the priest's daughters are the most eligible young ladies.

It is surprising in these circumstances that dissent does not spring up.' The implication is as illuminating as P. G. Hamerton's remark that few educated people had ever seen a preponderating in the south and south-west, except in Cornwall; and holding its own, with varying majorities, everywhere, except in the old Puritan strongholds of Bedford, Huntingdon, and the West Riding, and in Northumberland. An absolute figure of effective membership it is impossible to give.

Out of a population of 2,000,000 in the diocese of London it was reckoned that there were 70,000

communicants.' But a distinction must be

drawn between the country and the old towns on one side and the new agglomerations on the other.

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