The more pomp the less power. The more parade and fuss the less real service for Christ and humanity. In speaking of the Ritualistic churches of London, Mr. Spurgeon said:— “It is miserably amusing to mark the way in which our so-called national Church tries to win men to God. It has recently been stated that in seven of the leading Ritualistic churches in London, the subscriptions to Foreign Missions only reached the sum of £7 13s. 2d. for a whole year. It is fair to add that one of them contributed £5 12s. 10d. to a special fund for Honolulu, but even with this extra effort the total is not raised to £14, and the average is not £2 a piece. These seven finely apostolic churches contributed between them £13 7s. for Foreign Missions, and yet the incumbent of one of them, before the Ritual Commission, stated in his evidence that the cost of his choir alone was ‘about £1,000 a year.’ O model church, with what wisdom hast thou acted! Behold, thou givest £2 for the salvation of the heathen, and £1,000 for a box of whistles and a set of singing men and singing women to make music withal. Verily, this is a plain index of the whole business. Theirs is a religion of sensuous gratification, and not of soul winning. To charm ears with music, eyes with dainty colors, and noses with incense—this is their religion. Men pay money for these delights, even as they would to the opera, or any other amusement in which their tastes find pleasure; but, for the winning of souls abroad, a few halfpence may suffice to show the lack of zeal. Dear friends, we know that souls are not won by music. If the world were indeed to be conquered by chants, to be converted by sanctuses, regenerated by organs, and saved by little boys in surplices, then it would be time for us to cease our ministry and give place to choir boys, opera singers, organists and organ blowers. Then might we set up a vast array of gilded pipes, lift up the crucifix, wave the censer, and cry, ‘These be thy gods, O Israel.’”