Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . tdU > <z. w w H <Li en <pa a:u U u o 232 LIVING LONDON. the baptismal font; while the altar screenbehind the table has a beautiful paintingof Christ and His disciples at the LastSupper. Soho Square contains a handsome foreignplace of worship. This is the French Pro-testant Church of London, of Huguenotorigin, to which King Edward VI. gave acharter in 1550. Perhaps no religious bod_\-has a more romantic histor\ than that of. SWEDISH CHURCH, PRINCES SQUARE, E. : PREACHING THE SERMON. the
Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . tdU > <z. w w H <Li en <pa a:u U u o 232 LIVING LONDON. the baptismal font; while the altar screenbehind the table has a beautiful paintingof Christ and His disciples at the LastSupper. Soho Square contains a handsome foreignplace of worship. This is the French Pro-testant Church of London, of Huguenotorigin, to which King Edward VI. gave acharter in 1550. Perhaps no religious bod_\-has a more romantic histor\ than that of. SWEDISH CHURCH, PRINCES SQUARE, E. : PREACHING THE SERMON. the Huguenots, and this beautiful edificein orange terra-cotta—the first example ofchurch architecture in that material—is notunworthy of their interesting past. The service is partly Liturgical — theLiturgie de la Sainte Cene being used—andat the celebration of the Lords Supper theparticipants stand round the table. SeveralFrench professors and go\-ernesses attendhere, also families established in London,and people of the working classes. At theclose of the service an interesting littleceremony takes place, when doles are givento the poor. Those Huguenots who becamerich did not forget their less fortunatebrethren, as many legacies to the Huguenotpoor abundantly testif\-. Mention is made elsewhere in the articleon French London of the church of Notre Dame de France in Leicester Square,and of the tin}-chapel of the French Embassynear Portman Square ; while in Italy inLondon the great Italian church in HattonGarden has b
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