to come.

'The Roman Catholics were also mustered; but as there was no priest
on board, associated worship was for them quite impossible, and
they were accordingly at once dismissed.

'In the absence of an Anglican chaplain, Surgeon-Colonel McGill,
the principal medical officer, read prayers with the men of the
Royal Army Medical Corps. The captains of the various regimental
companies did the same for their Church of England men; while in
the main saloon the ship's captain conducted worship with as many
of the naval and military officers as found it convenient to
attend. At the harmonium presided Bandsman Harrison, of the
Northamptons, who for the last two years has helped ever so well at
the Sunday afternoon services of sacred song in Aldershot.

'After church there was an excellent gathering in the guardroom for
prayer and Bible reading, when we refreshed our hearts with the
thought of the glories of the ascended Saviour who is indeed "The
Almighty"; and although in this singular meeting-place we have
never before ventured to indulge in song, to-day we could not
refrain from an exultant voicing of the Doxology.

'At 6.30, just when loved ones at Aldershot were assembling for
worship, our praying men met once more; this time on the upper
deck, where there soon assembled a large and interested
congregation, sitting on the bulwarks or lying about in every
imaginable attitude on the deck. Close by there were half a dozen
strong horses that had not felt their feet for over a fortnight;
every now and then piercing bugle calls broke in upon us, and the