entrances are narrow, and there is often a good deal of pushing and patient squeezing at the neck of them.  But nobody is ever hurt, and not much bad temper is manifested when even the collateral pew doors mix themselves up with the crowd, and prevent people from getting in or out too suddenly.  The chapel, although simple in style, is clean, lofty, and light.  A gallery of the horse shoe pattern runs round the greater portion of it.  Thin iron pillars support the gallery and the “chancel” end, which is arched and recessed for orchestral accomodation, is flanked by fluted imitation columns.

There is accomodation in the place for between 800 and 900 persons; but it is not often that all the seats are filled.  The average attendance will be about 800; and nearly every one making up that number belongs to the working-class section of life.  Amongst the body are many genial good-hearted folk-people who believe is doing right without telling everybody about it, in obliging you without pulling a face over it; and there are also individuals in the rank and file of worshippers who are very Pecksniffian and dismal, cranky, windy, authoritative, who would look sour if eating sugar, would call a “church meeting” if you wore a lively suit of clothes, and would tell you that they were entitled to more grace than anybody else, and had got more.  The better washed and more respectably dressed portion of the congregation sit at the back of the central range of seats on the ground floor, also along portions of the sides, and in front of the gallery.  Towards the front of the central seats there is a confraternity of humble earnest-looking beings, including several aged persons, who are true types in form, manner, and dress, of unsophisticated Methodists.  Here, as elsewhere, there are very few people in the chapel ten minutes “before the train starts.”  Those present at that time are mainly middle-aged, unpretentious, and very seriously inclined; others of a higher type follow; and then comes the rush, which lasts for about five minutes.  Worship is conducted in the chapel with considerable quietness.  You may hear the long-drawn gelatinous sigh, the subdued, quiet, unctuous “amen,” and if the thing gets hot a few lively half-innate exclamations are thrown into the proceedings.  But there is nothing in any of them of a turbulent or riotous character.  The parsons can draw out none of the worshippers into a very ungovernable frame of mind; and we believe none of the people have for some time been very violent in either their verbal expressions or physical contortions.  They are beginning to take things quietly, and to work inwardly during periods of bliss.  There are about 400 “members” in connection with Wesley Chapel, and we hope they are nearly half as good as such like people usually profess to be.  The rule in life is for people to be about one-third as virtuous as they say they are; and if they can be got a trifle beyond that point by any legitimate process, it is something to be thankful for.