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and of which they are most certainly a type; when "that wicked shall be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming; even him whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power, and signs, and lying wonders; and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish, because they received not the love of THE TRUTH." May God turn the hearts of his people, while there is yet time, to receive "the trulh” in its entireness, and "the Church," which, the apostle tells us, is "the pillar and ground of the truth."

CONTENT AND DISCONTENT.

A Parable from the German.*

A FATHER returned from the sea-coast to his own home, and brought with him for his son some beautiful shells which he had picked up on the shore. The delight of the boy was great. He took them and sorted them, and counted them over.

He called all his playfellows to shew them his treasure; and they could talk of nothing but of

the beautiful shells.

He daily found in them new beauties, and gave each of them a name.

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A LITTLE tract, published by the Christian Knowledge Society, entitled A Churchman's Thoughts, is But in a few months the boy's father said to well worthy of general circulation. While its orhimself, "I will now give him a still higher plea-thodoxy is unexceptionable, there is a simplicity of sure. I will take him to the coast of the sea itself. There he will see thousands of beautiful shells, and may choose for himself."

When they came to the beach, the boy was amazed at the multitude of shells that lay around, and he went to and fro and picked them up.

But one seemed still more beautiful than another, and he kept always changing those he had gathered for fresh shells.

In this manner he went about changing, vexed,

and out of humour with himself.

At length, tired of stooping, and comparing, and selecting, he threw away all he had picked up, and returning home weary of shells, he gave away all those which before had afforded him so much pleasure.

Then his father was sorry, and said, "I have acted unwisely: the boy was happy in his small pleasure, and I have robbed him of his simplicity, and both of us of a gratification."

Poetry.

LINES WRITTEN ON A FINE AUTUMN
DAY: OCTOBER 3, 1842.
(For the Englishman's Magazine.)
THERE is sunshine in the heavens,
There's green upon the bough,

And the landscape yet is beautiful,

And the breezes sweet e'en now;

style and affectionateness about it which renders it peculiarly attractive.

WE also very earnestly recommend The Shadow of the Cross,- a little book just published by the same society. It will find a ready response in the heart of the young Christian. The author is the Rev. W. Adams, Fellow of Merton College, and Vicar of St. Peter's in the East, Oxford.

ANOTHER batch of tiny books for little children has just been sent forth by Mr. Burns, which contain very pretty stories.

A Parting Gift to Young Women leaving School and entering Service (Hackney, Turner) is exceedingly good, and well suited to the persons it is written for. The remarks on "a showy and unbecoming style of dress," now so dangerously prevalent among female servants, are worthy of very serious attention. It is said of some one, that whenclothes; and certainly nothing can be more morally ever he wished to injure another, he gave him fine injurious than the present over-dressing of young women. It is the ruin of thousands.

As a sign of increased reverence for holy things, we hail the appearance of Prayers for a Blessing on the Work of Building a New Church (Toovey). "It has been attempted," (says the advertisement), and we may add, the attempt has succeeded, "to comprise in these prayers the several subjects which most obviously occur to the thoughts in connexion with the building of a church. They invoke a blessing upon the work itself, as an offering to

* "Parables and Conversations." 18mo, pp. 57. Houl- Almighty God; upon the whole Christian Church,

ston and Stoneman.

the unity of which is typified by the material

fabric; upon the bishop of the diocese; the clergyman who is to minister at the new altar; the creatures of God dedicated to this his service; and those whose minds and hands are employed in directing to his use what is furnished by his bounty." The office is beautifully printed in Latin as well as English, for the sake of those who, in their private devotions, prefer the universal language-a liberty which the Church of England allows (see preface to Prayer-Book). It should be added, that the profits of this little book will be dedicated at the offertory to the building of the proposed new church of St. Mary, Margaret Street, London.

WHILE on this subject, we may mention a printed sheet addressed to all persons employed in the restoration of this Church. It is published by the Camden Society, and is intended to be affixed to the doors of churches under repair, in order to remind both the workmen and visitors that though in ruins, a church is still the house of God, and therefore is to be approached with becoming reverence. Something of this kind has long been wanted, and the placard before us seems to be the very thing. There is nothing severe or satirical here; and, to borrow a favourite expression of Hammond, "all the teeth are drawn"-more' than can be said, we think, of the Reasons for getting rid of Pews, published by the same useful society a short time ago.

WE cannot say much in favour of the Young Backslider (Hamilton and Co.) by Mrs. Cameron. It is a poor imitation of Archdeacon S. Wilberforce's "Similitudes," without any thing of their beauty of language, appositeness, or orthodoxy.

Louisa; or the Bride, by the author of the Fairy Bower (Burns), though somewhat deficient in plot, and scarcely to be called a story, is nevertheless an instructive book, and has a great deal of character about it.

Tales from the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, as related by a Mother for the Amusement of her Children (Tilt and Bogue). We stated in our last Number that we were not aware of any selection having been made from this store of interesting fiction which, being expurgated of unfit matter, might with safety be read by young persons. Since that time, a small volume with the above title has been placed in our hands, containing some of the most amusing Arabian tales-as "The Sleeper awakened," "The Fisherman and the Genie," "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp," "Sindbad the Sailor," with a few others; and forming altogether a very nice addition to our nursery literature, being calculated to give children some notion of Eastern fiction, without offending their minds by objectionable topics. The original machinery of a wife telling stories to her tyrannical and jealous husband in order to save her head from being cut off next morning is, of course, omitted. We think that some more ingenious device than Mrs. Meadows or Mrs. Mason relating tales to her children, might have been devised in its place. When there are things to be commented on or explained, or a moral set forth, then mammas and papas may be properly introduced; but in the present instance, either the

stories might have been given without connexion, or some more characteristic machinery might have been devised, as in Moore's "Lalla Rookh," which should still have kept up the propriety of the title "Arabian Nights' Entertainments." We think a larger selection, also, might be made, which should be suitable to a school-library.

Miscellaneous.

MORAL EFFECTS OF THE GREAT REBELLION. The young people of either sex had been educated in all the liberty of vice, without reprehension or restraint. All relations were confounded by the several sects in religion, which discountenanced all forms of reverence and respect, as reliques and marks of superstition. Children asked not blessings of their parents; nor did they concern themselves in the education of their children, but were well content that they should take any course to maintain themselves, that they might be freed from that expense. The young women conversed without any circumspection or modesty, and frequently met at taverns and common eating-houses; and they who were stricter and more severe in their comportment became the wives of seditious preachers or of officers of the army [the rebels]. The daughters of noble and illustrious families bestowed themselves upon the divines of the time [schismatical teachers], or other low and unequal matches. Parents had no manner of authority over their children, nor children any obedience or submission to their parents; but every one did that which was good in his own eyes. This unnatural antipathy had its first rise from the beginning of the rebellion, when the fathers and sons engaged themselves in the contrary parties-the one choosing to serve the king, and the other the parliament; which di

vision and contradiction of affections were afterwards improved to mutual animosities and direct malice, by the help of the preachers and the several factions in religion, or by the absence of all religion so that there were never such examples of impiety between such relations in any age of the world, Christian or heathen, as that wicked time from the beginning of the rebellion to the king's return. The relation between masters and servants had long been dissolved by the parliament, that their army might be increased by the prentices against their masters' consent, and that they might have intelligence of the secret meetings and transactions in those houses and families which were not devoted to them; from which ensued the foulest treacheries and perfidiousness that were ever practised; and the blood of the master was frequently the price of the servant's villany... In a word, the nation was corrupted from that integrity, good-nature, and generosity, that had been peculiar to it, and for which it had been signal and celebrated throughout the world; in the room of which, the vilest craft and dissembling had succeeded. The tenderness of the bowels, which is the very quintessence of justice and compassion, the very mention of good-nature, was laughed at and looked upon as the mark and character of a fool; and a roughness of manners or hard-heartedness and cruelty were affected. In the place of generosity, a vile and sordid love of money was entertained as the truest wisdom; and any thing

lawful that would contribute towards being rich. and pagan times, in contrast with the gods many There was a total decay, or rather final extirpation, || and the lords many of heathen adulation, one sponof all friendship; and to dissuade a man from any sor stood by the font to betoken and record the thing he affected, or to reprove him for any thing unity of the Godhead. Afterward, when the herehe had done amiss, or to advise him to do any sies of Arius, and subsequently of Socinus, had thing he had no mind to do, was thought an im- degraded the second Person, and others the third, pertinence unworthy a wise man, and received "three sureties" at least were required, to reprewith reproach and contempt.-Clarendon. sent the Trinity. If a fourth sponsor were added, the three in one were meant to be portrayed.

EDUCATION.-Education may be, in one point of view, divided into three parts:-1st, the forming the moral taste and character; 2dly, the maturing and improving the powers of the mind; 3dly, the acquiring knowledge. The third is clearly the least important of the three; for it depends on the other two: if the first part is not rightly performed, the others are worth nothing; for powers of mind and knowledge are only the greater means of evil where there is no right moral principle. If the second is not rightly performed, the third cannot lead to any thing; for unless the powers of the mind be well trained, the man has no efficient means of getting knowledge. And, moreover, the third part is that in which least is done in education; the whole amount of the actual knowledge gained in education is very little, and not to be compared with that which every well-educated man gains in a very short time (by means of his former education) when he comes to act in life. For these reasons, the former two are most important: yet the tendency in the country now is decidedly to take this third part, "the getting knowledge," for the whole of education; than which there can be no greater mistake, nor any opinion more likely to destroy all good education.-Rev. R. Hussey's (Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Oxford) Letter to T. D. Acland, M.P.

CHURCH DECORATION.-Nothing is trifling that concerns the house of God, and it is in this view that a kind of pamphlet, being, in fact, a tradesman's catalogue, bearing the above title, is noticed here. Forty years ago who would have imagined a linen-draper (Mr. French, linen-draper, Bolton, Lancashire) making altar-cloths of damask and velvet, pede cloths and napkins, a staple of his commerce, and finding a sufficient sale to allow him to vend articles inapplicable to any but sacred purposes at moderate prices? Who would have imagined that two firms should have competed with each other in such a production as encaustic tiles for the pavement of churches, and produced some of a beauty and probable durability which no ancient specimens extant can surpass? One maker sinks the enamelled figure in the unpolished tile, and these are certainly the best executed and most agreeably coloured. The other has a thick coat of enamel on the whole surface; these are the cleanest, and most closely resemble the old pavements generally met with. An ingenious artist has also turned his attention to oak-carving by a process with heated iron, which has diminished the expense of this beautiful style of decoration very materially. This is not the least promising source of church-decoration lately opened, as most of the designs hitherto executed have been altar-rails and chairs. May the love and zeal of the priest keep pace with every improvement in the temple! The demand for such furniture is certainly no inauspicious sign.-British Magazine.

GODFATHERS AND GODMOTHERS.-In the old

THE CHURCH OUR MOTHER.-The Church Catholic is our mother. A child comes for instruc

tion to its mother; she gives it. She does not assume infallibility, nor is she infallible; yet it would argue a very unpleasant temper in the child to doubt her word, to require proof of it before acting on it, to go needlessly to other sources of information. Sometimes, perhaps, she mistakes in lesser matters, and is set right by her child; yet this neither diminishes her prerogative of teaching, nor his privilege of receiving dutifully. Now this is what the Church does towards her children according to the primitive design. She puts before them first of all, as the elements of her teaching, nothing but the original creed; her teaching will follow in due time, but as a privilege to children necessarily ignorant, not as a condition of communion,-as a privilege which will be welcomed by them, and accepted joyfully; or they would be wanting in that temper of faith which the very coming to baptism presupposes.-Newman. POPERY.- Our Lord said of false prophets, By their fruits shall ye know them;" and, however the mind may be entangled theoretically, yet surely it will fall upon certain marks in Rome which seem to convey to the simple and honest inquirer a solemn warning to keep clear of her while she carries them about her such as her denying the cup to the laity, her idolatrous worship of the blessed Virgin, her image-worship, her recklessness in anathematising, and her schismatical and overbearing spirit.-Ibid.

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ATTACHMENT TO THE CHURCH.-Without individual holiness, attachment to the Church is but an unmeaning name. There may, no doubt, be a carnal zeal and a party affection, but there will be a worldliness which will taint the one, and a hollowness which will disgust men with the other. But when zeal for Christ's Church has its root in an awful sense of those evangelical gifts which in this holy society he bestows upon mankind-when it is evidenced by a devout and self-denying life, spent in obedience to her laws,-then may we hope that God will bless our efforts, and that Satan's empire will be shaken by our assaults.-Archdeacon R. Wilberforce's Charge.

THE HOLY COMMUNION.-Unless men are habitual communicants, they have no claim to be called Christians. Other means are useful in their way, but that is essential. For what gives to other ordinances their effect is, that those who participate in them are members of Christ, and Churchmembership is bestowed through the Lord's supper. Prayer and preaching are not effectual through their own vigour, but because they can claim the fulfilment of those promises of which, by communion with Christ, they are inheritors.-Ibid.

FIT GUESTS FOR A KING.-James I. took great pleasure in the conversation of those divines who attended his court. It was usual with him, parti

cularly at his meals, to discourse with them, as well upon the controversial points of religion as upon various topics of literature. Bishop Hall, in his holy panegyric, hath drawn a parallel between the Roman Emperor Constantine and King James: "Constantine sat in the midst of bishops, as if he was one of them; King James, besides his solemn conferences, vouchsafes not seldom to spend his meals in discourse with his bishops and other worthy divines."

PHYSICAL FACTS.—As an instance of the adaptation between the force of gravity and forces which exist in the vegetable world, we may take the positions of flowers. Some flowers grow with the hollow of their cups upwards; others "hang the pensive head," and turn the opening downwards. The positions in these cases depend upon the length and flexibility of the stalk, which supports the flower, or, in the case of the euphorbia, the germen. It is clear that a very slight alteration in the force of gravity, or in the stiffness of the stalk, would entirely alter the position of the flower-cups, and thus make the continuation of the species impossible. We have, therefore, here a little mechanical contrivance, which would have been frustrated, if the proper intensity of gravity had not been assumed in the reckoning. An earth, greater or smaller, denser or rarer, than the one on which we live, would require a change in the structure and strength of the footstalks of all the little flowers that hang their heads under our hedges. There is something curious in thus considering the whole mass of the earth, from pole to pole, and from circumference to centre, as employed in keeping a snowdrop in the position most suited to the promotion of its vegetable health.-Whewell.

Entelligence.

tholic College of Maynooth (per Act 35 Geo. III., c. 21, 1795), total amount to the year 1840382,6991. 2s.

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YORKSHIRE ARCHITECTURAL SOCIETY. - The first public meeting of this society was held at York on the 7th of October, Richard Bethell, Esq., of Rice, and subsequently Andrew Lawson, Esq., M.P., from Knaresborough, in the chair. large number of influential clergy and laity were present. A report explanatory of the objects of the society was read by the Rev. G. A. Poole, of Leeds, one of the honorary secretaries. Several resolutions were also passed, and a committee formed. We are glad to learn that 300 persons have already given in their names as subscribersno uncertain sign of the society's present popularity and future usefulness.

WAKEFIELD PARISH CHURCH.-Several alterations have lately been made in the interior of this church. The pulpit has been removed from the middle aisle to the front of the south gallery, and is placed where the vicar's pew formerly stood. About 175 years ago, when the top part of the spire of the church was rebuilt, the inside of this church underwent complete renovation: the pulpit was then removed from the place where it now stands, to the place from where it was removed last week. The clerk is seated in a pew at the east end of the church, and cannot be seen by the greater part of the congregation. The singers have been removed from the organ-loft into the body of the church; and prayers are now said from the communion-table.

THE SURPLICE.-It is probable that before long the surplice will become again the sole ecclesiastical vestment used in our churches. The Primate of Ireland, and the Bishops of London, Exeter, and Down and Connor, we observe, have recomA GOOD EXAMPLE.-The Rev. Henry Vigne, mended their clergy to preach in it, as being the vicar of Sunbury, Middlesex, has made over, gra-only dress recognised by the English Church. An tuitously and in perpetuity, to the inhabitants of that place, in trust, one acre of land, to be kept solely as a playground for the children of the na

tional schools.

additional recommendation of it, in our eyes, is that it helps to distinguish the church from the meeting-house; and sure we are that till people learn that the two are something altogether different in kind, there is very little chance of a sound healthy tone of religious feeling.

mended by the heads of the Church. In the recent collections, under the Queen's letter, the Bishops

of London and Oxford recommended its use according to the directions of the rubric; and no one who has observed the solemnity which is imparted to the labour of love, by laying the alms collected upon the altar of God, can fail in wishing that the practice may be universally restored.

CHURCHWARDENS.-Among the many gratifying features attending the recent visitation of the Bishop of Exeter throughout his extensive diocese, THE OFFERTORY.-The use of this part of the may be mentioned the presence of several gentle- Church-service, if not on every Lord's day and men of rank and distinction in the county, in the holyday, at least whenever the alms of the congre official character of churchwardens. Thus, at Tot-gation are solicited, is also being generally recomnes, Sir J. B. Buller, Bart., M. P., Sir Cecil Bishopp, Bart., and H. Champernowne, Esq., and at Exeter Col. Fulford, were among those parochial officers. REGIUM DONUM.-Our readers are aware that this annual grant, which has been made in Ireland from A.D. 1691, and in England from A.D. 1722, either by civil list or by parliamentary vote, is for the maintenance of dissenting ministers-those disinterested individuals who teach that government has nothing to do with religion, and that its ministers should be supported on the voluntary system. It is copied from a return made to parliament, on a motion of Lord Ashley, and was ordered to be printed on the 11th of August 1840:Payments made in England, 272,7991. 10s. 9d. Payments made in Ireland, 974,9407. 16s. these may be added the following amount of grants to the Romish dissenters, who express such abhorrence of state support, viz:-To the Roman Ca

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EXCOMMUNICATION (writes the Bishop of Madras), a word almost obsolete, because the thing it signifies is unfortunately scarcely now known in England, is in full force here: not as an instrument of tyrannical bigotry, but as a most efficacious means of chastening, correcting, and amending those who are hardened against public exhortation, and will not be brought back by private rebuke. It has been exercised here on several occasions with the best effect.-Journal of Visitation, published by Rivingtons, London.

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SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE EMPLOYMENT OF ADDITIONAL CURATES IN POPULOUS PLACES. The object of the society is, to increase the means of pastoral instruction and superintendence at present possessed by the Church; and in order thereto to provide a fund for the maintenance of additional clergymen to be employed as licensed curates where their services are most required in England and Wales. Three hundred and sixty-three incumbents have already applied for aid through their respective diocesans; and of these, one hundred and seven are now enabled, by the help of the society's annual grants, to establish additional services, and to obtain additional curates in their several parishes and districts, comprising an aggregate population of more than a million and three quarters. In addition to which, a sum, remaining in the society's hands in consequence of grants not becoming payable, has been apportioned to twenty-five parishes, in the shape of annual assistance to each for periods varying from one year to four years, when that sum will be exhausted.

SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS.-The Report for 1842 has just been published. "The expenditure of the society in the foreign colonies and dominions subject to the British crown, during the past year, has amounted to more than 80,0007., distributed in the following proportions:

To the British Provinces of North America £26,980
The West Indies, and British Guiana
The East Indies.

Australia

New Zealand.

Cape of Good Hope, and Mauritius.

20,062

21,621

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Among the memorable events of the last year, intimately connected with the designs of this society, the first notice is claimed for the formation of the Colonial Bishoprics' Fund. It is matter of congratulation that, within little more than a year, the amount of subscriptions raised for this beneficial and important object has amounted to 70,000%.”

ETON. The college - chapel, which has been closed for upwards of two months, has been reopened, having undergone very extensive alterations and improvements. The side-walls of the principal part of the edifice, which were wainscoted to a considerable height, and also the hideous screen which since the time of Sir Christopher Wren has disfigured this ancient structure, and concealed the fine old Gothic stone-work, has, by the liberality and good taste which distinguish the heads of the college of the present day, been removed; and the fine old altar-piece, as well as several ancient monuments, are again brought to light. This chapel, as well as the monuments and stones railing round the altar-piece, are now put in complete repair; and the whole will shortly resume its pristine character. A magnificent stone pulpit, elaborately carved, is being erected near the altar, which is in strict keeping with the character of the edifice. It is also in contemplation to remove the remainder of the wainscoting, and throw back the screen and organ-gallery about sixteen feet into the ante-chapel, which will give the additional room in the body of the church so much required through the daily increase of the scholars of this renowned seat of learning. The old organ has been removed, and a splendid new one has been erected at a cost of 800 guineas. The altera

tions and improvements will cost little less than 40007.

DORCHESTER. The parish church of Stinsford has undergone a thorough renovation and improvement, in accordance, we are happy to observe, with the plan suggested by most of the venerable prelates and other dignitaries of our Church, whose wishes in this respect have been repeatedly declared. The sittings are entirely re-arranged, all unsightly obstructions in the form of high pews being removed; the seats, being open, are now of the uniform height of 2 feet 10 inches only; and proper accommodation is provided for kneeling during the prayers and litany, as directed by the rubric of our Common Prayer, and suggested by the ordinary understanding of all Christian worshippers. This is not the only instance of the revival of public worship more strictly in accordance with the direction of the rubric in parish churches, as improvements of a similar character have been effected in several other villages near the town.

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BROCKLEY CHURCH.-On Sunday last this beautiful little edifice was re-opened, after having undergone a thorough repair. Two new splendidly coloured glass windows have also been added. the display of the largest window is a neat mural tablet, with the following inscription:-"This window, and also the north window in the nave, were added to this church A.D. 1842. The faculty for that purpose was granted to the rector and his churchwarden, at the sole expense of the Right Reverend George Henry Law, D.D., Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells. The improvement was effected by the munificence of his lordship, and other pious and benevolent persons desirous of promoting the glory of God and the welfare of the Church of Christ." Upon the occasion of re-opening the church, the rector presented each boy of the school a new cap, and each girl a new bonnet.

WESLEYANISM IN INDIA.-In our last Number we noticed the decrease of the Wesleyan schism in England; the following fact shews a similar diminution in India. It was stated at Exeter by Archdeacon Robinson, at a meeting of the friends of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, that five Wesleyan teachers, one of them a superintendent, had gone to the Bishop of Madras and renounced their errors, begging to be admitted to the privileges of communion with the Church of Christ, and expressing themselves ready to undertake any office, however humble, in the service of the Church. The bishop, after due probation and examination, entrusted them with the office of catechist; and the district in which they are now labouring in the stedfast profession of the apostles' doctrine and fellowship is one of the most flourishing in the diocese of Madras. The whole of their missions and schools have been now placed under the superintendence of the Bishop of Madras, under whose fostering care the Church is

lengthening her cords and strengthening her stakes, and enjoying in a great measure, under the bishop's apostolic rule, the blessing of Church-unity.

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