A Jamaica Congregation

In pours the black portion of the congregation. It is coinposed for the most part of wömen. They are gorgeously arrayed in silks and cottonsof the most bewildering brilliancy, with golden beehive shaped ornaments in their ears anc tvvists of gold about their necks, and ai are beaming and smiling with the ut most complacency and self satisfaction. With a great many of them the first duty is to take off their boots or shoes. Small wonder, tor half of them are in the habit of trüdging 20 or 30 miles a day barefooted to and from market, and the other half, if they do not use their feet so hardly, at any rate never confine them. Poor or wanting in proper pride indeed must ba that wornan who cannoi raise a pair of boots or shoes for Sunday vise! It meansagony, you may conceive, to keep pinched up in stifï leather a pair of feet used to free, untrammeled movement, but it has to be borne, and it is borne - for a few minutes. It is managed thus: On the road tocburch a halt is made at about 200 yards' distance from the building for the purpose of putting on the boots or shoes, which have been hitherto held in the hands. Church is then hobbled into and the boots or shoes taken olï, to be agam put on as the service draws to close. Church is then hobbled out of, and at a respectable distance from it the instruments of torture are again got rid of, not to be