and every evening there was a service of Evening Prayer, containing a sermon. The regular celebration of a daily service of Holy Communion was an old practice that the Tractarian movement in England had recovered for the Church of England. It was at that time not regularly practised in the colonies of British , and had not yet been introduced to the newly built church. However, other Tractarian innovations or recovery of ancient rites and rituals did make an immediate impact on the congregation through the mode of worship conducted at St. Peter 's Church. The ceremonial used in worship and the brightness of the interior of the building made it quite different from St. Paul's Church. An address given by the Reverend W.L. Cotton to the St. Peter 's Church Club in 1921, gives us a first hand recollection of life at St. Paul's Church around the year 1865. He said: There were then two clergymen on duty in St. Paul's, the Rev. D. Fitzgerald , rector, and the Rev. Mr. Parnther his assistant. Both were men of high character and very greatly respected by all sorts and conditions of the people. Both were very strongly Protestant and strongly opposed to the Tractarian movement then in progress in England . Before each service they entered the church very decorously robed. The preacher of the day was clothed in a long black gown with two scrupulously white bands appended in front, and the reader of the prayers and psalms wore over his coat and trousers a long white surplice. The psalms were never sung. Indeed the service altogether was as monotonous as can be imagined. Mrs. Roome , now one of our elder lady citizens, was organist for a time being; and she was succeeded a year or two later by Mr. Earle . The organ and choir were then in the gallery at the west end of the old wooden church, the chancel in the east; and the whole body of the church with a gallery extending along each side was filled with pews individually owned or leased. There were four large double pews in the middle of the church, for the use of the Lieutenant - Governor and his family, for the members of the Legislature, and for the high officers of the Government . Speaking generally there was a good large congregation, composed, for the greater part, of very highly respectable people. For the poor people, there were two free pews at the end of the church furthest from the chancel and pulpit. At the same time there was among the members of the congregation a considerable amount of dissatisfaction and unrest. The services, as rendered, were for many unimpressive and uninspiring. The pews were jealously held by their owners and leasees, and if a poorly clad man or woman were to enter one of them uninvited he or she became the subject of invidious remark. Indeed I have heard that more than one person was peremptorily turned out by the owner after taking a seat. The more enthusiastic members of the congregation sighed for a brighter service and free seats.13 73. Address given by the Reverend W.L. Cotton to the St. Peter 's Church Club, 1921. 52