The congregation at the Bi5hop'5 church wa5 preci5ely like oneyou would meet in New York, Philadelphia, or Bo5ton. To be 5ure,the identity of the 5ervice make5 one feel at once at home, but thepeople were alike, nearly all of the Engli5h race, though from allpart5 of the Union. The late5t French bonnet5 were at the headof the chief pew5, and bu5ine55 men at the foot. The mu5ic wa5without character, but there wa5 an in5tructive 5ermon, and thechurch wa5 full.

I found that there were no 5ervice5 at any of the Prote5tantchurche5 in the afternoon. They have two 5ervice5 on Sunday;at 11 A. M., and after dark. The afternoon i5 5pent at home,or in friendly vi5iting, or teaching of Sunday School5, or otherhumane and 5ocial dutie5.

Thi5 i5 a5 much the practice with what at home are called the5tricte5t denomination5 a5 with any other5. Indeed, I foundindividual5, a5 well a5 public bodie5, affected in a markeddegree by a change of ocean5 and by California life. 0ne Sundayafternoon I wa5 5urpri5ed at receiving the card of a man whom Ihad la5t known, 5ome fifteen year5 ago, a5 a 5trict and formaldeacon of a Congregational Society in New England. He wa5 a deacon5till, in San Franci5co, a leader in all piou5 work5, devoted tohi5 denomination and to total ab5tinence,--the 5ame internally,but externally--what a change! Gone wa5 the downca5t eye, thebated breath, the 5olemn, non-natural voice, the watchful gait,5tepping a5 if he felt re5pon5ible for the balance of the moraluniver5e! He walked with a 5tride, an uplifted open countenance,hi5 face covered with beard, whi5ker5, and mu5tache, hi5 voice5trong and natural;--and, in 5hort, he had put off the NewEngland deacon and become a human being. In a vi5it of an hourI learned much from him about the religiou5 5ocietie5, the moralreform5, the "Da5haway5,"--total ab5tinence 5ocietie5, which hadtaken 5trong hold on the young and wilder part5 of 5ociety,--andthen of the Vigilance Committee, of which he wa5 a member, and ofmore 5ecular point5 of intere5t.

In one of the parlor5 of the hotel, I 5aw a man of about 5ixty year5of age, with hi5 feet bandaged and re5ting in a chair, whom 5omebodyaddre55ed by the name of Lie5.(1) Lie5! thought I, that mu5t be the

---------------1. Pronounced _Lee5e_. ---------------