His congregation is the best in the archdeaconry; one meeting-house is dead, and the other dying.

The congregation attending on a Sunday is a mixed onerags and satins, moleskins and patent kids, are all duly represented; and it is quite a study to see their wearers put in an appearance.

MAUR, ST., a disciple of St. Benedict in the 6th century; the congregation of Saint-Maur, founded in 1613, was a perfect nursery of scholarly men, known as Maurists.

The average congregation will be about 300 not a large number considering the size of the building; but then, through ministerial changes, &c., the place has had much to contend with, and it has not had a chance for some time of getting into proper working order.

The 'Presbyterian' congregations, as they were not very strictly called, were the backbone of the 'body'; many of these, however, were very weak, and in the course of a few decades some were destined to follow those which had died out in the eighteenth century.

This was partly because the vast plantations were not grouped about a compact village nucleus like the small farms at the North, and partly because there was not in Virginia that Puritan theory of the church according to which each congregation is a self-governing democracy.

A congregation is a mysterious and subtle social force.

These congregations, or families, soon became boroughs, and the inhabitants, though agriculturists, took the name of bourgeois.

Now a' the congregation o'er Is silent expectation; For Moodie speels the holy door Wi' tidings o' damnation.

* * Muhammed, the preacher of repentance, had become a temporal prince in Medina; his civil and political administration was ecclesiastical in character, an inevitable result of his position as the apostle of God, whose congregation was at the same time a state.

The congregation is a mixture of working and middle class people; the former kind being preponderant.