The chiming of church bells came gaily towards them through the frosty air, and Babette knew that her terrible journey was well-nigh ended.

The churchwardens, however, threw them out into the church-yard!

Why do we hide so many pretty talents under a bushel, when the church-door swings behind us?

The church-tower is mossy and much gnawed by time; it has narrow loop-holes up and down its front and sides, and an arched window over the low portal, set with small panes of glass, cracked, dim, and irregular, through which a bygone age is peeping out into the daylight.

Many are church members.

Beside these things the average church services to-day are both stupid and poky.

We should have no processional of millions churchward on the Lord's Day, no hymns to stir our souls to joy and praise, no anthems or oratorios, no ministers, no ecclesiastical courts and assemblies, no church conventions, no church-schools, religious societies, nor religious press.

The church clock had just struck the quarter-past five, and by this time it was dark, though the street was lit up by the gas-lamps and the long rows of shop windows.

And when another donkey announces that he is going to stand upon his head on the point of a church spire, that church is sure to be throngedoutside.

The gospel itself is without price, but in the nature of things it cannot be proclaimed, nor church-work efficiently carried on, without financial outlay.

They had protested against the episcopal form of church government, and declared their approval of the discipline and the forms adopted by the Church of Geneva, and also of that established in the Netherlands.

It may seem to us that to begin the correction, mutilation and reconstruction of the works and words of men so great in church history and liturgy as Prudentius, Sedulius, St. Ambrose, St. Paulinus, was a work of rashness, a sort of sacrilege, attempting to remodel the glowing piety of their poems to the pattern of Horace's verse.

And when she went across the church porch, toward the door of the choir, it seemed to her as if the old pictures on the tombstones, the portraits of clergymen and clergymen's wives, in their stiff collars and long black garments, fixed their eyes upon her red shoes.

The church steeples, once of an inconceivable height, were now but a scant sixty feet; and the buildings beneath them, that once had vied with old-world cathedrals, were seen to be but toy churches.

Two rooms were added to the church building.

Church warden.................

In church music, the lector ceased to recite the psalm as a solo and the faithful divided into two choirs, united in the refrain Gloria Patri.

Our certificates were then read; and after we had conversed on our church discipline, the company separated in mutual love.

The reversion, says he, "to the favourite square east end of English church architecture was popular in itself.

I know him particularly, I'll fetch him to you now, Sir; he always stands for new Imployment with the rest of his Gang under St. Jago's Church-wall.

The privileges of the nobility and clergy were abolished, and the church property was seized.

He became, therefore, all of a sudden, a violent church-goer.

Church time came.

There are many other church edifices in the United States owned by Christian Scientists.

That faith was more common, I think, a generation or two back, in old-fashioned church people than in any other.