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Show Church Once a Music Hall. St. Mary's, Soho, London, where an interesting "Jansenist" service has Just been held, is a church with a remarkable re-markable religious history. It was originally erected through the influence influ-ence of Doctor Compton, the tree planting bishop of London, for the Greek archbishop of Samos and his flock, who had been driven from their island by the Turks. Since then this little edifice has been successively a meeting house for Huguenots and Baptists, and was finally fi-nally being turned into a music hall when captured by the Established church. It is now being used by the Old Catholics for their Sunday mass and other services, with the sanction of the bishop of London. The first Anglican vicar of St. Mary's was J. D. Chambers, a once famous Tractarlan leader, who had among his congregation Mr. Gladstone. |
