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two thousand miles on a pilgrimage to the tomb of || heat of the Spirit; but a confusion rather, arising their false prophet.-Jones of Nayland.

from the want of it ; not a knitting together, but a MISAPPLYING SCRIPTURE. — Beware of misap- | freezing together, as cold congregates all bodies, how plying Scripture. It is a thing easily done, but heterogeneous soever,--sticks, stones, and water; not so easily answered. I know not any one gap but heat makes first a separation of different things, that hath let in more and more dangerous errors and then unites those that are of the same nature. into the Church, than this,—that men take the -Leighton. word of the sacred text, fitted to particular occa. CHRISTIAN Worship. It is no worship which sions, and to the condition of the times wherein they l) is offered out of the Church, but only in the court were written, and then apply them to themselves of God. Do not imagine to yourselves private and others, as they find them, without due respect courts and synagogues. There is one holy court had to the differences that may be between those of God; therefore they that are planted in the times and cases and the present. -- Bp. Sanderson. house of the Lord, which is the Church of the liv.

A Scotch PRESBYTERIAN AND THE CHURCH OF | ing God, shall flourish in the courts of our God ENGLAND.-Thus much an attached Presbyterian (St. Basil). Again, St. Cyril says: “If at any may sincerely and readily say of the Church of time thou art in strange cities, ask not merely England - It is a noble and 'venerable hierarchy. ll where is the Lord's house ? for the sects and hereIts foundations are laid deep in the old feelings of sies of the impious endeavour to honour their dens the people. Its clergy, mingling the accomplish-|| with the name of the Lord's house,-nor merely ments of the aristocracy with the condescension of where is the church ? but where is the Catholic Christian pastors, rivet together the different ranks Church ; for that is the proper name of her that is of society, as with crossing bars of iron. Its | holy and the Mother of us all." bishops have exhibited, many of them, the pomp of | CHILLINGWORTH'S ARGUMENT FOR EPISCOPACY. the prelate in beautiful union with the spirit of || When I shall see all the fables of the MetamorChrist's meekest martyr. Its massive learning is phoses acted, and prove true stories; when I shall the bulwark of Christianity. Its exquisite liturgy, || see all the democracies and aristocracies in the second in divine composition only to Scripture world lie down and sleep, and awake into monaritself, ready at all times to supply the needs of the chies,-then will I begin to believe that presbyterial fainting soul, and fitted, in its comprehensive de government, having continued in the Church during votions, aptly to embody every different individual the apostles' times, should presently after (against aspiration, binds in one chain of prayer the hearts the apostles' doctrine, and the will of Christ) be of its members, and the hearts of generation after whirled about like a scene in a mask, and transgeneration. From its pulpits, no longer occupied || formed into episcopacy. In the meantime, while by slumbering watchmen, the true doctrines of the these things remain thus incredible, and in human Cross are proclaimed, as with the sound of a trum reason impossible, I hope I shall have leave to pet. The costliest offerings for the cause of Christ conclude thus :--Episcopal government is acknoware poured in generous profusion into the treasury. ledged to have been universally received in the The zeal of the missionary, that finest token of Church presently after the apostles' times. Beapostolic origin, has awoke within its bosom : and tween the apostles' times and this “ presently bishops are going forth, making of the crosier a after," there was not enough time for any possipilgrim staff, in order to proclaim amongst the || bility of so great an alteration; and therefore Gentiles the good tidings of salvation. Well might there was no such alteration, as is pretended; and the members of any other communion excuse the therefore episcopacy, being confessed to be so generous feelings which would awake these words | ancient and catholic, must be granted also to be of Holy Writ, concerning her whom the best of her | apostolic. sons have rejoiced to call their Mother Church of The PATEN AND CHALICE.—The “rose of ShaEngland, “Many daughters have done virtuously, ron" and the “lily of the valley'' have always been but thou excellest them all."- A Tract for the Times, regarded in the Church, as the symbols of our adapted to the position of both Churches. By William Lord and his Mother. Hence the Norman rose Penny, Advocate of Edinburgh.

and the fleur de lis were types in the old ecclesiasTHE ABSENCE OF DISPUTES NO PROOF OF

tical architecture, and were afterwards assumed by TRUE UNANIMITY. - The boasted peaceableness

the laity as heraldic bearings. Thus the paten about questions of faith too often proceeds from a ||

to this day is shaped like the rounded rose; and superficial temper, and not seldom from a superci

the chalice perpetuates, by its form, the large lily lious disdain of whatever has no marketable use of the East. “All thy works praise thee, O Lord. or value, and from indifference to religion itself. | ..:: They shew the glory of thy kingdom, and talk Toleration is an herb of spontaneous growth in the of thy power." soil of indifference ; but the weed has none of the |MORALITY OF SECTARIANS.--Among those that virtues of the medicinal plant, reared by humility || are severed from the unity of the Church may often in the garden of zeal. Those who regard religion || be found a rigid morality, but little of the unearthly as matters of taste may consistently include all temper which marks the catholic saints. We often religious differences in the old adage, De gustibus see strict truth, integrity, and benevolence; but non est disputandum-(concerning tastes there can little of the conscious awe of God's invisible prebe no controversy). And many there be among sence, the subjugation of passion, the denial of self, those of Gallio's temper, who care for none of these which distinguishes a saint from a philosophic mothings, and who account all questions in religion, as U ralist. We shall often see likewise much zeal, forhe did, but matter of words and names. And by wardness, and energy in action; but little of the this all religions may agree together. But that meekness, self-withdrawal, and devout humility, were not a natural union produced by the active, which is the crowning glory of Christ's example,

ANECDOTES.

In fact, out of the unity of the Church we see the || in a great commercial country, where the capitalist commoner virtues, which the world in part knew from the very nature of his dealings, felt not those before Christ's coming, carried higher by the deep moral obligations to which he (Archdeacon strength of Christianity; but of the higher virtues Wilberforce) had adverted as existing in the breast which the world never dreamed of, and which were | of the landed proprietor; and so it was with the manifested in Christ only, we can trace but faint manufacturer, unless he should happen to be a man lines any where except in the one Church alone. of high principle and real religious character. This The reason of this seeins evident. In no other body operated by another re-action from the manufacis there the divinely adjusted discipline for the will turer to the agriculturist; for the manufacturer of man. The plastic energy, by which the character || came to an estate with all his commercial habits. of Christ is remoulded in the moral nature, is baf Instead of having resided on the estate handed fled for want of the organic structure through which || down by his forefathers, knowing his tenantry, and the fitness and harmony of moral truth prescribe || having their moral and religious welfare at he its action: just as the animal life fails of throwing he came among them a stranger, and transferred out the highest forms of health where bodily or. || his old ideas to his new circumstances. He beganisation is maimed or wanting.-Manning.

| lieved this had had a powerful effect upon the eduThe LITURGY. The Prayer-book was placed in cation of the people of the country. The landed our churches by the same hands which put the Eng I proprietor thought that if he did as much as the lish Bible there. It could not therefore have been clergyman did, he was doing well in behalf of that possible, in the estimation of the translators of both, great cause, in the furtherance of which his forethat the liturgy was adverse to the other sacred book. | fathers built churches out of their own pockets, and

HERETICS AND SCHISMATICS.-Heretics, by false endowed them out of their rent-rolls. He thought opinions concerning God, violate the faith itself'; that if, out of his munificent estate, he gave as much and schismatics, by their evil divisions, break off | as the clergyman contributed out of his miserable from brotherly love, though they believe the same

pittance, he had done as much as was required of things that we believe : therefore neither heretics

him.-Archdeacon Wilberforce. belong to the Catholic Church, for that it loves God, - nor schismatics, for that it loves our neighbour. St. Augustine.

An English SQUIRE. — The example of the REASON AND REVELATION.- It is a matter of

squire of a parish is proverbially important for great patience to find persons arguing in this

good or evil, to a degree beyond that, the clergymanner,-objecting against the credibility of such

man's excepted, of any other parishioner. And cular things revealed in Scripture, that they || among the many cheering signs of the times, there do not see the necessity or expediency of them.

is none more gratifying than the co-operation For though it is highly right, and the most pious

afforded to the clergy by right-minded laymen of exercise of our understanding, to inquire with due

this rank, in carrying out the intentions of the reverence into the ends and reasons of God's dis

Church. An instance of this bas lately come to pensations; yet when these reasons are concealed,

our notice, too striking and instructive not to be to argue from our ignorance that such dispensations

made public, in the hope that it may stimulate cannot be from God is infinitely absurd.-- Bishop

others in similar good works. The excellent clerButler.

gyman of Prestwold, in Leicestershire, had for some MANUFACTURING System.- In times past the I time been meditating the introduction of the saints'landed proprietors of England felt it their bounden day services into his church, and was resolved on duty to supply for their tenantry, not barely and the feast of St. Andrew's, the first saints'-day of grudgingly, but as if it was necessary to the well the ecclesiastical year, to make the attempt. Bebeing of the country, the means of worshipping fore doing so, however, he wisely, not to say dutiGod according to the religion of their forefathers, || fully, consulted with John Packe, Esq., in whom and thousands were the churches built, even in the are united the squire of the parish, the patron remotest parts of the country, with a lavish expen of the living, and the member of the county; at diture, which we could now hardly emulate in our the same time asking his opinion as to the practimost populous districts. And when we asked who cability of the proceeding. The honourable gen. built those churches, we found they were built by || tleman immediately saw the propriety of the arthe owners of the soil, as if the sacred duty had | rangement, and expressed his cordial approbation been part of the tenure by which they held their || of it. But more than this: he not only attended land. Now he did think that a very different state divine service himself on the occasion, but brought of feeling had come over the owners of property in along with him all his household servants and day the present day, and he thought the leading cause labourers. The good squire's example has since was this—that the very tendency of the spirit of been followed by humbler parishioners; and the commerce, and manufacture especially, was to de consequence is, that the saints'-days have every stroy the sense of responsibility connected with the prospect of being duly honoured in the parish of holding of property. When the landed proprietor Prestwold. Unless we are mistaken, Prestwold is dwelt amidst his tenantry, visited them at their not far distant from Barrow, the incumbency of homes, and saw them at their firesides, and was which was once held by Bishop Beveridge, who, bound to them by the ties of social life, he reflected, “ in thankful remembrance of God's mercy vouchand that without any great measure of Christian safed to him thereabouts," left in his will a plenphilanthropy, that they were his charge, and that | |tiful accession for ever, on condition that prayers in holding the acres of his estate, he, by the act, be said morning and evening, every day, according contracted the obligation of providing for the wants to the liturgy of the Church of England. If the of his tenantry. But it was a very different thing members of the Church invisible are conscious of

the doings of the members of the Church visible, nical objections of various kinds, consents neceshow must the good bishop's spirit rejoice to know, sary to be had, but impossible to obtain-so that, that in the neighbouring parish of Prestwold there in spite of my best efforts, the business made no should be an approximation to what he so justly progress for nearly two years : but still this earvalued, -the daily performance of public prayer." nest-minded man was not disheartened. He wrote

George THE THIRD IN Sr. George's CHAPEL, to me from time to time. He came once to LonJanuary 1, 1787.-The king was to make an offer don to see me on the subject. He said he would ing as sovereign of the garter. He was seated in draw store, and begin building himself, if I would the dean of Windsor's stall, and the queen sát byl only promise to consecrate the building when raised. his side. The princesses were in the opposite seats, || At length all obstacles were overcome, and the and all of them at the end of the church. When building was commenced, and advanced rapidly the service was over, the offering ceremony began. towards its completion; but in the mysterious proThe dean and senior canon went first to the com vidence of the Almighty it was not to be permitted munion-table. The dean then read aloud, “Let to its zealous projector to see the labour of his own your light so shine before men,” &c. The organ | hands, to rejuice in his work. He was taken ill, began a slow and solemn movement; and the king and died a short time, I believe a few weeks only, came down from bis stall, and proceeded, with a before the termination of that work which he had grave and majestic walk, towards the communion- || so long and so earnestly desired to behold. But table. When he had proceeded about a third of were his efforts therefore thrown away? No; rathe way, he stopped and bowed low to the altar; || ther was his work finished, and he was taken to then he moved on; and again, at an equal distance, his reward ; and if he was not allowed to worship stopped for the same formality, which was a third || in the courts of God's tabernacle on earth, may we and last time repeated as he reached the steps of not humbly trust that he joined in purer worship, the altar. Then he made his offering, which, ac- || and in more joyful strains, in the blessed company cording to the order of the original institution, was of the saints who rest in the Lord ?" ten pounds in gold and silver, and delivered in a purse: he then knelt down, and made a silent prayer, after which, in the same measured steps,

#ntelligence. he returned to his stall. -D'Arblay's Diary,

BURTON AGNES.- In this ancient but rural vilTRIUMPH OF PERSEVERANCE.-At the triennial | lage, the seat of a baronet, and the residence of the meeting of the Salisbury Diocesan Church-build archdeacon of the East Riding, is a neat parish ing Society, held last week at Salisbury, the lord |church of the gothic order, dedicated to Saint Marbishop of the diocese said, there was an anecdote tin, which appears to have graced that village for connected with the building of the church at Whit- | the last seven or eight, hundred years; but in the church Canonicorum which he could not forbear lapse of years the interior has undergone many relating :-"The first proposal for this undertaking alterations, which had hidden from the view its (said his lordship) was made to me soon after I be- || original beauty. The archdeacon, with his usual came bishop, by a farmer in that neighbourhood, of zeal for the beautifying and restoring the churches the name of James. He was a man, not of the more in his archdeaconry, has restored this ancient edifice opulent, rather, I believe, of the humbler class; nor

by clearing away the underdrawing, and exposing did either his appearance or manner indicate any the roof and the handsome gothic windows; he has thing superior to that ordinarily found in his sphere opened out the noble arch between the belfry and of life ; but he felt deeply the privation under which the church, and the columns which support the six he and his neighbours laboured in their separation arches of the north and south aisles have been refrom the house of God, and the means of grace pro stored to their original state. The ancient font, vided therein. He lamented to see many around which had been cast away nearly a century ago, is him falling into ungodliness and disregard of all put again into its own place. A neat organ bas religion-others supplying the want for themselves been set up. The alteration at the first was somein an irregular manner, by forming conventicles of what objected to by some of the parishioners, who one or other denomination of dissent. His heart thought the church would never look so well again: was stirred within him to endeavour if by any but now on the contrary they admire the archdeameans this want could be removed. He exerted con's taste, and think it is very much improved. himself among those with whom he was connected, The whole has been done at the archdeacon's own and his neighbours generally, and obtained pro expense, excepting the putting in of two new plain mises of assistance to a considerable extent. He

windows. The chancel is reserved for still greater came to me at Salisbury from the further part of improvement and more marked beauty. The church Dorsetshire, bringing with him a map of the pa was re-opened for divine service on Sunday the 4th rish and of the neighbouring district, drawn by him inst., and the various chants were performed by the self very clearly and accurately, in order to demon national-school boys, accompanied by the fine tones strate the want, and a subscription-list amounting of the organ. The service was performed by the to 4001., raised by his almost unaided efforts, and, venerable archdeacon, and the Revs. J. Skinner and indeed, in the face of the opposition of some from

G. Boynton, and was more than ordinarily impreswhom he might naturally have expected encourage. sive. ment and help; and to this he had himself contri Leeds Church COMMERCIAL SCHOOL.- On the buted 501. I think I am stating these things cor. 16th of December the usual half-yearly exami. rectly; but I am speaking only from memory, and nation of the pupils in the Church of England Comafter the lapse of some years. There were greater mercial School took place in the school-room at difficulties to be surmounted than I have ever Little Woodhouse, which was crowded to overflowknown to occur in a similar case--legal and tech- || ing by ladies and gentlemen, friends of the institu

tion and relatives of the pupils. The room had SOCIETY FOR PROPAGATING THE GOSPEL IN been tastefully decorated for the occasion with FOREIGN PARTS.— Within the short period of four evergreens, transparencies, maps, portraits, &c. years, the number of parochial or district associaThe vicar took the chair. The pupils were then tions has been increased from 210 to 870; and it is examined in grammar, composition, knowledge of hoped that ere long every parish in the country will, Bible and Gospel-history, and of the articles and | either through the agency of a missionary associcreeds of the Church; in arithmetic and algebra, in ation, or by means of the offerings made in church, geometry, physics, and British history : in all of contribute its fair proportion to the society's imwhich the scholars acquitted themselves very cre- portant objects. It is on the hearty and zealous ditably. Between the different courses of exami- co-operation of the parochial clergy that the sonation the pupils sung short pieces illustrative of ciety must rest its main hope of being able to mitheir practice in the art of psalmody, in a style nister to the accumulating wants of the Colonial which elicited much applause. The vicar distri- || Church, and to build up her waste places. buted the premiums awarded, and expressed his CONVOCATION OF THE CLERGY.-At a numerous satisfaction at the manner in which the examina- ! meeting of the clergy of the archdeaconry of Exeter, tions had been gone through.

on the 25th ult., it was agreed that an address LEEDS LITERARY Union.—A very interesting should be presented to the bishop, alluding to the lecture “On the learning and domestic manners of evils arising from the want of an authorised eccleEngland before the Norman Conquest," was deli- siastical representative body, and requesting his vered on the 28th of December, before the mem lordship to bring the same to the notice and earnest bers of this institution, by the Rev. Edward Chur. Il consideration of the primate and bishops of the ton, Rector of Crayke.

Church. The address will be published as soon as DECREASE OF DISSENT.-" The door of egress | it shall have been presented to the archbishop. from our ranks is set wide open to the young; and WHALLEY, LANCASHIRE.-A handsome monuthey are leaving in crowds." So writes Mr. Edward

ment to the late Rev. Thomas Dunham Whitaker, Miall, a preacher among the Independents. His LL.D, late vicar of Whalley and Blackburn, &c., advice to his dissenting brethren, however, is quite the excellent and lamented historian of Whalley, unlike that which the Wesleyans have adopted

has been erected by public subscription in the veunder similar circumstances of decline; and, if his nerable church of this village. people will but be satisfied, we think much more Wells CATHEDRAL.-It is in contemplation to prudent. He recommends them by no means to | raise the sum of 30,0001. to put this magnificent enter into controversy with Churchmen: it is an building in proper repair. The archdeacon has “undignified position” to have to defend yourself. I promised 10001., and the dean 6001. ; at least, so We presume that Mr. Miall is not the first person

report says. who has made this discovery; though no one per

CHURCH ExtenSION.-From the charge of the haps has been, heretofore, so bold as to propose the

Bishop of Chester it appears, that within the last acting upon it.

twelve years upwards of 170 new churches have CONVERSIONS FROM POPERY-A Drogheda pa- ||

I been built within this diocese alone, by far the per states that within the last month upwards of greater number being additional to those preone hundred Irish teachers have publicly abjured | viously existing. The increase of accommodation the Church of Rome, and received the sacrament appears to be in Cheshire, upwards of 21,000 in the church of Kingscourt, according to the rites sittings; in Lancashire, 90,000; and in Westof the Church of England.

moreland, nearly 50,000. MOORwinstow, Cornwall. The Council of his LIVERPOOL: CONVERT FROM ROMANISM.- AnRoyal Highness the Prince of Wales have subscrib- other convert from Romanism has been received ed 101. towards erecting a national school in this into the holy Catholic Church at St. Simon's parish.

church, Gloucester street. This is the sixth perWINDSOR AND Eron Cuurch UNION.—The an- || son who has publicly renounced popery in St niversary meetings of the Windsor and Eton Church | mon's church this year. Union lately took place at the Town-hall, Windsor. ChichesteR.-In consequence of the erection of The morning meeting commenced at 12 o'clock, | the painted window in the cathedral, by Dean and that in the evening at 6 o'clock. Both meet Chandler, a subscription has been entered into for ings were very numerously and respectably attend putting stained-glass windows at the east and west ed, comprising most of the families of the two ends. It already amounts to 6001. towns of Windsor and Eton, and their respective The Bishop of LINCOLN.-The inhabitants of vicinities, when the report was read by Mr. Bowyer || North Willingham, in consideration of the extenthe secretary; after which several resolutions were Il sive bounties and unremitting attention given to carried, and some excellent speeches were made, the community of that neighbourhood by the above setting forth the claims of the Church societies in respected diocesan, while resident at Willingham connexion with the union, viz. the National Society | House, have presented an address to the Right for the Education of the Poor; Society for Promot- || Rev. Prelate, on leaving that locality for the new ing Christian Kuowledge ; Society for Building | episcopal palace near Lincoln. As it expresses Churches; Society for the Propagation of the the feelings of thousands within the diocese of his Gospel; the Church Missionary Society; and the lordship, we give a copy :- “To the Right Rev. Curates' Aid Society. The meeting was closed Dr. John Kaye, D.D., Lord Bishop of Lincoln.with prayers read by the vicar, the Bishop of Tas- | We, the inhabitants of North Willingham, desire mania pronouncing the benediction. The collection | hereby humbly to testify our gratitude to your at the doors amounted to 261, 5s. 6d., exclusive of lordship for the many favours we have received many annual subscriptions.

from you during your residence in our parish. To enumerate all your numerous kindnesses to us | week-days which the Church has appointed to be would be impracticable, but we cannot omit the || kept holy; more particularly in addition to opportunity of thanking your lordship for the Christmas-day and Good Friday) Ascension-day, handsome service of plate you have been pleased Ash Wednesday, the Circumcision (Jan. 1), the to present to our church, which gift, we assure you, | Epiphany (Jan. 6), Monday and Tuesday after is highly appreciated by us, and will ever be con Easter, Monday and Tuesday after Whit-Sunday. sidered as a token of your regard for our best in 5. The daily matin service early in the morning, terests. We earnestly hope that the great Father || where circumstances admit of it; and on Wedof all will shower down his favours upon you, and nesdays and Fridays to use the litany at eleven that your life may be long spared to dispense those o'clock as a separate service. 6. The penitential blessings around your new abode, of which we have | fast of Lent. 7. More frequent communions, the had the happiness for the last three years to be minimum to be six times a-year, and if possible partakers."

monthly communions, or oftener. 8. The clergy to WEEKLY OFFERTORY.—This primitive and ex dress in a peculiar habit, so as to be distinguished cellent usage of the Church was simultaneously from the laity; yet not so as to excite ridicule. restored in the parish churches of Dunton, Orseto, 9. Lowly reverence every time the name of the Lord Stifford, and Aveley, Essex, on Sunday, the 6th Jesus is mentioned during divine service. 10. To inst. When it is considered how many things there make obeisance on entering and leaving a church are in connexion with the sacred edifices them or a chancel. 11. The communion table to be called selves which church-rates do not provide for, espe an altar, in the sense in which the primitive Church cially in these days, when the “screw" is so vigor- | so called it. 12. Worshipping towards the east ously applied by dissenting and other agitators at by the whole congregation as a primitive custom. parish vestries; when, moreover, it is considered | 13. The clergyman's desk for the liturgy to look how many wants are felt by the Church at large, northward or southward, that he may not turn his which nothing but systematic benevolence can ade- || back to the altar during the prayers; but the desk quately provide for, it is surely time for the clergy || for the Bible to look westward towards the people. at large to return to this rubrical as well as primi The minister is also to turn towards the people tive practice, the Church's own mode of gathering while pronouncing the absolution, and also (of the pious offerings of her children, leaving to schis course) while saying the introductory address, matics the bald heterodoxy, and the pride and vain 11 "Dearly beloved brethren," &c.; which passages glory, of subscription lists.

must be learned by heart for that purpose. 14. Two WOODBRIDGE.-A new stained-glass window has | candlesticks to be placed on the altar, but not to lately been erected in the chancel of the church, at be lighted except during the evening service. the expense of George Thomas, Esq. It embodies

15. The surplice to be worn by the preacher in emblems of the four Evangelists. On the top of

| the morning service, and the gown in the evening the tracery is St. George's Cross. Underneath, are service. 16. A distinct enunciation of the prayers. four shields; the first, a yellow cross on white neither rapid nor declamatory. 17. Not to sing ground; the second, an emblem of the Trinity on a psalm or hymn at the beginning of divine white ground; the third, the scourge, the spear, service. 18. The minister (not the lay clerk) to and the sponge; the fourth, the crown of thorns. give out the psalms and hymns, and other lawful And in the lower part of the tracery, in the centre notices. 19. The prayers for the Ember-weeks to of the window, is a dove on blue ground, with a be used at the times appointed. 20. After the glory round its head. The size of the window Nicene Creed, the minister to declare what holyis about 14 ft. by 8 ft., and it is of most exquisite days or fasts are appointed in the week following. manufacture, the colours being peculiarly vivid. 21. Baptism never to be administered in private It forms altogether a most beautiful addition to this houses except in cases of urgent necessity; such fine church, and was manufactured by Mr. Wille baptisms, however, to be duly entered in the regisment, of London, who has lately furnished orna. ter. 22. No clergyman, not personally known to mental windows to the Temple church and St. the minister, to be admitted to officiate as his subGeorge's chapel, Windsor.

stitute, without having shown his letters of orders The Church in China.-We have much satis- ll to the bishop.-Church Intelligencer. faction in being able to state, that it is in contemplation to make an immediate effort to raise suffi

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. cient funds for planting a branch of the English In answer to one or two inquiries on the subject, we beg Church in the new settlement at Hong-Kong, with || to say, that we have at present no intention of reprinting a view not merely to provide our own countrymen,

the first volume of the Magazine.

Having misplaced the address of the writer of the verses who may be resident there, with the means of

forwarded us from Leith some weeks since, we are unable grace and edification, but to the more effectual in to forward any reply to the writer's proposition. troduction of our holy religion into the vast empire We shall endeavour to act upon “A constant Reader's' of China.-Ecclesiastical Gazette.

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ber an article on Private Judgment will appear, which our

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