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HE Illustration shows the front elevation of a church edifice, with accommodations for about seven hundred persons. It is intended to be built of stone or brick, with cut-stone dressings, although the same design might be carried out in wood. The entrances are numerous and conveniently arranged, as well as amply large. In the front is a vestibule, 9 feet wide, extending entirely across the building, containing four entrances to the audience room, as well as the stairs to the small gallery above. The audience room is 60 x 70 feet, with a chancel 20 feet wide at the end opposite the principal entrance, containing the pulpit or any other arrangements which denominational peculiarities might require. There are 136 pews on the principal floor, with five sittings in each. The organ is on one side of the chancel, and on the opposite side is a minister's retiring room. Access to the audience room is also had through vestibules on either side, and these vestibules communicate with the vestry and committee room. The vestry is 40 x 48 feet, the committee rooms each 18 x 20 feet, communicating with each other by folding or sliding doors, and also with the vestry by means of sliding sashes in addition to the ordinary doors. Above the committee rooms, and reached by an ample flight of stairs from the vestibule below, is an additional room for the use of the ladies of the society. All these various rooms should be abundantly lighted and well ventilated. The expense of the building would of neces sity vary much with different localities, and with the amount of cut stone used upon the exterior; but under favorable circumstances it might be built of stone for about $20,000.