PLACES OF WORSHIP.

In a town like Birmingham, unfettered with charteral laws; which gives

access to the stranger of every denomination, for he here finds a

freedom by birthright; and where the principles of toleration are well

understood, it is no wonder we find various modes of worship. The wonder

consists in finding such _agreement_, in such variety.

We have fourteen places for religious exercise, six of the established

church, three dissenting meeting houses, a quakers, baptist, methodist,

roman catholic, and jewish. Two of these only are churches, of which

elsewhere.

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