Beautiful and expensive churches are rising everywhere, in connection with various denominations.

It is not long since the building or repairing a new church, or the repairing and adapting an old church, implied in Scotland simply a production of the greatest possible degree of ugliness and bad taste at the least possible expense, and certainly never included any notion of ornament in the details.

Now, large sums are expended on places of worship, without reference to creed.

First-rate architects are employed.

Fine Gothic structures are produced.