Untitled - Electric Scotland

422 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP TAIT [CH. xv.
away by excited feelings to the miserable worship of human
saints and the Lord s human Mother, into which in their calmer
moments they never would have believed that they could have
fallen.
in this
God grant that those who teach and those who worship
church may ever be kept by the Spirit of God safe from
these and from all delusions that their abundant labours of
self-denying love may never be tainted by an unscriptural de
pendence on human ministrations or human traditions in prefer
ence to the Word of God. Ah, my friends, however different
and abundant work before
may be our opinions, there is great
all of us, to labour heartily, simply, and prayerfully in the midst
of a world and of a city lying in wickedness, to advance the
kingdom of Him who died to save poor human erring souls.
God grant that we may all labour in that work heartily, faithfully,
and in a loving spirit, as in the sight of the Lord Jesus Christ."
Similar in some respects to All Saints, Margaret
Street, was the still more notable case of St. Alban s,
Holborn. This church, too, was the gift of a wealthy
layman, Mr. J. G. Hubbard (afterwards Lord Addington),
who not only erected the building at his own cost, 1 but
gave ^"5000 as endowment, and for some time ;ioo a
year for each of two curates. The church was not com
pleted till 1863, but a year previously the Rev. A. H.
Mackonochie was nominated by Mr. Hubbard as the first
vicar of the newly constituted parish,
a parish consisting
of some of the worst streets and alleys to be found in
London. Mr. Mackonochie, it will be remembered, had
long been known and respected by Bishop Tait as one of
the successful pioneers of the Riverside Mission in St.
George s in the East. 2 While the beautiful church of St.
Alban s was being built Mr. Mackonochie held his services
in a room over a fish-shop in Baldwin s Gardens, and in the
cellar of a house in Greville Street. As the new church
approached completion the Bishop received many letters
1 The site was given by Lord Leigh.
2 See p. 243.