We never drive the hungry From our hearth and from our door; We never built the unions Wherein they starve the poor : And are never over-nice; The poor shall have a slice. And I glory in the name, Has ne'er been mark'd with shame. They loved the Church for many a day, Ay, and we love ber still ; We yeomen never will. Have set upon her sore; And other sects a score ; When she alone hath power And bless our dying hour ? In battle-field have stood, Although the ground ran blood. You'd think would want long search : I'll tell you, and I'll tell you true, They dare not leave their Church! He came to tread in zeal that day A path our fathers trod, A costly gift for God! He brought both gold and land, For evermore might stand ! 'Twas a strange scene!-the church, the tower, The purpose wise and good : Who died upon the wood! And full and anxious mind, Come back upon the wind ! Loud as a trumpet-call; Shall nobly man the wall! And the tale be proudly told, The Rural Dean of Trigo MAJOR, Norwenstow, Cornwall. Nov. 5, 1842. THE SIGNAL OF LANEAST. A low and solemn door- The benches low and wide, Where He in anguish died ! The rock where waters flow, To heal old Adam's woe! Some martyr's broken mould Through God's bright saints of old ! We paced that churchyard through, And the lay-lord of Laneast was there With willing heart and true!? 1 John King Lethbridge, Esq., of Tregeare. His oblation was 5001. for land and a house. Notices of Books. CHEAP LITERATURE. We had intended, in the present number, to have fulfilled our promise of giving some account of the state of cheap literature, by which we chiefly mean the penny periodicals in England at the present time. On searching into the matter, however, we find that it will be impossible to do any thing like justice to the subject, without encroaching upon space better occupied by other contributions ; so that we must fulfil our promise by deputy, as it were, and refer the reader to another publication, in which the subject has been handled at considerable length. We allude to the English Churchman, | a newspaper just started, and well suited for cleri. cal and family reading. There the reader will find a detailed list of the more pestilential portion of our cheap literature, with extracts and reflections, which will sufficiently convince him of the wretched state of it, and the urgent necessity of some means being adopted to counteract its pernicious influence. Evidence is afforded of the far too general circulation of this profane trash, by the alarming rapidity with which they spring up amongst us ; and, as a practical instance, it inay be mentioned, that in the inner ward of the parish of St. George, Hanover Square, that infamous paper, the Weekly Despatch, is read by no less than 283 families; the Sunday Times by 79; and Bell's Life in London by 23. Bad as this is, it is said to be a much better state of things than exists in many other of the 2 2 Sam. v. 24. parishes of our metropolis,-Westminster for in- || the fold of Christ. The Jews, we know, sinned a stance. sin unto death by imputing the miracles of Christ While on this subject, we may mention a recent to the agency of Satan. What may be their conpublication, which is well calculated to be of ser. dition who assign the works of the devil-for all vice in infusing a better spirit into no unimportant schism is of the devil--to the agency of God, it is department of our cheap literature, - Songs and not for us to know. The fate of the Jews, lowBallads for the People, by the Rev. J. M. Neale, ever, who thus acted, and of the seven sons of B.A. (Burns). The reader will find a specimen in Sceva, gives one no uncertain grounds for supposanother part of the Magazine. ing that an assumption like this will not be readily pardoned by Him who has revealed Himself to us as a jealous God, and a consuming fire. Our prayer Wesleyan Tracts for the Times. to God is, that he will forgive the Wesleyan MeThere are few works that have recently appeared thodists this great wickedness, and lead them into in the perusal of which we have received greater the way of his truth. satisfaction, we may say instruction, than those placed at the head of this article. We have long | The History of Josiah, by the Author of Gideon looked, and looked in vain, for some clear and || (Murray), is evidently the production of a welltangible definition of Wesleyanism. Although one | informed and pious Christian. The tone in which might have expected to find it in the writings of it is written is deeply reverential, and such as the “great founder and father of Wesleyanism,” our || should always belong to a sacred biography. The search in that quarter has been very unsatisfactory. | reflections are also very apposite, and the analysis Wesley was a kind of religious Proteus, and the of Jeroboam's sin is clever and opportune. form which he assumes in one part of his writings is quite opposite to what we find in another. Of Burns's Magazine for the Young is a little work, all writers in the world he is the most indistinct | the progress of which we have watched with no and contradictory, and we defy any man to get a ordinary interest; and we have no hesitation in clear notion, from his writings, of the system which saying, that though the first number was excellent, he established. His followers have also practised each succeeding one has been an improvement the s same indistinctness, and we are not ashamed | upon the former, and that the entire volume is one to confess, that till the Wesleyan Tracts for the perhaps better adapted to the reading of a child, Times appeared, we were somewhat in the dark | or young person, than any with which we are acrespecting the position which this pernicious system | quainted. Every friend of youth, of either sex, had assumed for itself. We had indeed a shrewd | should promote the circulation of this delightful suspicion that the Methodists believed themselves | periodical as much as they are able. to be expressly commissioned by Heaven for the work they had in hand, and that the Conference Mr. Sewell's Popular Evidences of Christianity claimed a divine revelation for its constitution and || (Murray) is a work of no ordinary value, inasmuch proceedings; but this was a sad charge to bring | as it supplies a proof of the truth of Christianity, against men who called themselves Christians, so which has seldom, in a popular way, been given by we forebore making it. From the tracts before our divines. Hence, works of evidences have geneus, however, we find that there was no need of rally done more harm than good, by inducing a such delicacy, inasmuch as they expressly de- | spirit of rationalism rather than of faith. Mr. clare, that "Wesleyan Methodism is in itself the Sewell, however, has avoided this evil, by bringing fruit of an extraordinary visitation and work of forward that part of the Christian evidences which God." This, then, is a definition of Wesleyan may be found in the writers of the Church. In a ism, authorised by the Conference itself, so that conversation between a Brahmin, a clergyman, and here we have the Wesleyans claiming the autho a dissenting missionary, he answers a very obvious rity of a new dispensation for their present posi- | difficulty raised by the Brahmin in respect of the tion. For, to quote from a lengthy, justly severe, different claimants to his belief, in the persons of and rather able criticism, in the January number Christian missionaries professing quite opposite of the Eclectic Review, in whose opinion we for sentiments, and of course representing Christianity once may coincide, “if this does not signify that|l to him under different aspects. Amid this diversity Methodism claims to be a new dispensation, origi- ll of sentiment, the Brahmin inquires, how he is to nating in a new revelation, we cannot understand | know which is the true story, and how he may test either its meaning or its pertinence to the case in | the truth among these discordant teachers. It is hand." There is, indeed, something fearfully awful the answer to this question wbich contains the evi. in such an assumption; and we again coincide with dences before us; and he must, indeed, be scepti. the dissenting critic, who says that “from all such cal, who can resist the proof which they afford. pretensions the Wesleyans ought to shrink with A part, also, from Mr. Sewell's work being suitshame and horror.” In truth, they ought. For able for the general reader, the young especially, men who have introduced a dreadful schism, not it has peculiar advantages for those whose office it to say damnable heresy, whereby the unity of that is to be engaged in missionary labours, as it af. Church which Christ purchased with his blood has fords the only argument which can in ordinary been broken, to lay claim to a divine command || cases reach a heathen mind. It need not be added, for their wickedness, is one of the most shocking that this excellent work is executed in a very mas. and awful assumptions that can well be imagined. terly manner. There is, however, an important moral connected with this profanation. It shews into what an abyss | Herbert Tresham ; a Tale of the Great Rebellion, of blasphemy men may fall when once they leave || by the Rev. J. M. Neale (Rivingtons), like all real tales of that time, is full of interest. Besides this, liberally subscribed 231. 12s. 6d., giving a liberal it betokens a very minute acquaintance with local bonus to each, in addition to their own deposits ; histories and original documents. We heartily re and that the drapers' bills for clothing (upon whom commend it both for high and low. tickets are given at the choice of the depositors), amounted to 951. 15s. 10d., thus providing for the #ntelligence. poor, the widows, and orphans, a large supply of warm and cheap clothing, with little exertions on NEW CHURCHES IN MANCHESTER.-During the the part of the depositors. last six or seven years, no fewer than thirteen Church Choirs.-In England there are about churches have been built in this town, besides 10,000 churches, and as many chapels of ease ; it is schools connected with most, if not all of them. fair to presume that at least 10,000 of these places There are also funds in the hands of treasurers suf of worship could support a choir of eight persons ; ficient to build at least a dozen more churches, as this would give partial employment to at least well as funds with which to endow them, to the 80,000 persons, which, considering the times, amount, it is said, of fifty pounds each per annum. would be the means of alleviating many a worthy A PIOUS BEQUEST. — The communion - table, || father's care in providing for his family.-Musicul desks, and pulpit, in the parish-church of Alces- || World. ter, have lately been decorated with superb drape Lichfield ARCHITECTURAL Society. The first ries, the table with a full covering of superfine royal | anniversary of this Society was held on Thursday purple cloth, the letters “ 1.H.S.” in gold, occu last, at the Diocesan School-room, Lichfield; and pying the centre, the desks and pulpit with the was, notwithstanding the unfavourable weather, nurichest royal purple silk velvet, ornamented with merously and respectably attended. The Rev. W. gold lace and tassels, given by the late Mrs. Ann | Gresley was called to the chair, and read a highly Brandish, " to the honour of God and of her na interesting paper on the nature and objects of the tive town and birth-place." society. A very able paper was also read by New CHAPEL ROYAL AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE. | Richard Green, Esq., one of the secretaries of the -The works, which were inspected by Prince Al society, on the sculpture of Gothic architecture. bert on his visit to town on Saturday week, are in Several new members were proposed and admitted, a forward state. It is of handsome dimensions, || and numerous donations of books, prints, drawings, supported by columns, and extremely well lighted. &c., reported. We cordially recommend this soThe entrance for her majesty is by a door in the || ciety to the support of all Churchmen in the diomiddle of the north side of the chapel; the entrance cese of Lichfield. for the royal household is immediately underneath. PLAN FOR INCREASING CHURCH-AccomMODAThe edifice, which, it is understood, will be conse TION.-An excellent plan, worthy of adoption by crated with the usual ceremonies either by the the friends of the Church, has been devised in the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Bishop of London, county of Essex, for providing church-accommodawill be finished by the return of the Court to town | tion for a considerable number of persons, dwelling in February. respectively at a distance from their churches; and TORQUAY.—A subscription is collecting for build who otherwise, from the increase of population, ing a church at Torquay, and it is expected a sum could not be provided with room for frequenting of 20001. will be added to the subscription, for the divine service at their appropriate sanctuaries. A greater accominodation of the poor inhabitants in district is to be formed from portions of the parishes that dense population, which has increased seven of Lexden and Stanway, near Colchester, at the fold in the last twenty-five years, being nearly point where the two unite, with a number of peo7000-not less than from 200 to 300 houses having ple dwelling contiguously sufficient to form a parobeen built in twelve years in Tormoham parish. chial cure. The church is to be erected in the LONDON.—There are now twelve new churches former parish, whereupon the rector of Lexden, building, or about to be commenced, in various under the sanction of the diocesan and the patrons, parts of the metropolis one in the Kent Road, in generously gives to the intended new church 601. the parish of St. George, Southwark; one in Pad per annum, from the proceeds of his living, towards dington ; another on the site of the Old Broadway ihe maintenance of the clergyman. The worthy chapel, Westminster; a large church, with a Gothic rector of Stanway responds to the offer of his neightower, in which a musical peal of bells is to be bour incumbent, and, with the concurrence of the placed, in Wilton Square, Knightsbridge; three in president and scholars of Magdalene College, Ox.. Bethnal Green parish; and a new church in St. || ford, the patrons, gives from the receipts of his living Pancras parish. Sites have been chosen for a new also 401. per annum to the same good object. Thus church in the Waterloo Road, district of Lambeth | | is obviated the difficulty of endowment; and proviparish; another in St. Botolph without, Aldgate, | sion is made of 1001. a year for the officiating miin the county of Middlesex; and a third in St. I nister. A lady of property in the neighbourhood George's in the East. The new parish church of proposes to contribute 3001. towards the building St. Gilés, Camberwell, building on the site of the l of the sacred fabric; her nephew, who is to succeed old edifice, which was destroyed by fire, is pro- || to the estate, is likely to contribute to the same gressing rapidly, and will be a noble and spacious || handsome amount. An excellent spirit, we underedifice. stand, pervades, as is usual on these occasions, the CLOTHING CLUB. From the last year's account | neighbourhood in the abetting of this most desirable of the Market Drayton Church Clothing Club, it || undertaking. In a diocese such as that adminisappears that the poor people deposited, by pay- | tered by the zeal, devotedness, and ability of the ments of twopence and fourpence a week each, | Lord Bishop of London, much aid may be expected 721. 2s. ; that the ladies and gentlemen kindly and from the efficient church-building funds. The knowledge that such building funds exist, excites ) said that another gentleman in Rochdale is in to church-extension. We apprehend, that in many I like manner about to embrace the doctrines of the parts of the kingdom the case here stated might be Church. successfully imitated by thus dealing, either with a || The GREGORIA. CHANTS IN AMERICA.-" You single parish, having populous hamlets, and of suffi- || will be gratified," writes an American parish priest, cient endowment (take the splendid example set in |" I doubt not, to learn that I have successfully inthe Lancashire living by a noble and lay patron), || troduced the Gregorian chant into my parish seror with two or more parishes, detached portions of vice. Indeed, upon the Sunday after I received whose inhabitants have converged to the same the parcel, having occasion to perform the burial centre. service in church, I had the choir chant in unison PETITIONS TO PARLIAMENT.–At a meeting of the 39th and 90th Psalms in the service, to the first the clergy of the East Riding of Yorkshire, at || two endings of the first tone, and with very pleasBeverley, on Wednesday last, the following peti- || ing and solemn effect. I have had iny Sunday. tions were unanimously agreed upon :-1. A peti. || school children learn to sing the anthem in the tion to both houses of parliament against the sup | S. S. Liturgy, Blessed is the man,' &c., to the pression of one of the bishops' sees in North Wales. || first ending of the third tone; and already my 2. A petition to the queen for the restoration of l' choir have learned to sing most of the anthems or convocation. 3. A petition to both houses of par. canticles to different tones. On our Thanksgiving liament, requesting that no change might be made Day (the 8th of December), I shall have them sing in the ecclesiastical courts without the concurrence all the anthems (including the Benedicite, Omnia of the bishops and clergy in convocation. Opera, &c.), and also the entire Psalms of the day, LYNN ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURAL So to the Gregorian tones. I mention these things to CIETY.—This society held their third meeting on shew you (so far as the example of a single counthe 4th inst., the Rev. Edward Edwards, president, try parish can do so that your good labour, in thus in the chair. This society is instituted on the prin publishing the Catholic and almost forgotten music ciple of the Cambridge Camden Society, the object of olden times, is not without fruit."-The Church. being to raise a fund applicable to the restoration | BAPTIST BLASPHEMY.-We learn from the Northof churches. At the above meeting, the subject for ampton Herald that a Baptist jubilee has been held consideration was the Porch, on which subject papers in that town--for what purpose is not definitely were read by the Rev. Mr. Blencowe, secretary to explained, but we are told in aid of the “ Jubilee the society, and also by Mr. William Taylor; and | Fund." The affair seems to have lasted some we trust that the institution will be successful. days, as we read that beds were provided for visitCambridge Chronicle. ors by tickets as they label coats and bonnets at WEEKLY OFFERTORY.—This primitive and ex the theatres, we suppose ; and that the “creature cellent usage of the Church has been restored at || comforts," as Mr. Jay terms marriage, were further Sedbergh with the most satisfactory results. From || cared for by supplies of tea and refreshments graa notice fixed to the church-door, and signed by the || tuitously to ministers, also by tickets. However, proper authorities, we learn that rol ess a sum than in what way these people may amuse or busy them281. 78. 10d. has been received in the course of the selves, is perfectly indiffereni to us, so long as they past quarter, which, after deducting 101. collected avoid any gross offence to God or man. But we for a special purpose. leaves an average of nearly are not called upon to overlook such offences; and 39s. a Sunday, the spontaneous offerings of the con what else are we to denominate the fact that there gregation. Thus, these small droppings of cha was sold at the bazaar held on this jubilee occasion rity, which the givers never miss, and we hope will by the Baptists, a note, assimilating in size and never be permitted to want, go to form a fund || print to a bank-note, the promissory obligation of which is applied to many excellent uses connected | which runs as follows: with the relief and education of the poor. It also “No. I. OLD BANK OF HEAVEN. prevents the necessity of having too frequent re I promise to give you ETERNAL course to the more ostentatious and objectionable HOLY Life, and none should pluck you methods of sermons and subscription lists.--West out of my hand. moreland Gazette. TEN THOUSAND. CONVERSION TO THE Church.--Some sensation Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, has been created amongst the dissenting sects of || A good title to and thou shalt be saved.2 Rochdale by the recent conversion of Mr. Phelp, || Heaven is worth Whoso believeth shall be saved. the minister of the Unitarian chapel, Blackwater- | more than Whoso believeth not shall be street, to the Catholic faith. It would seem that || £10,000. damned.3 Mr. Phelp was engaged upon a work in oppo Jesus Christ." sition to the doctrine of the Trinity, and that in We will not trust ourselves to make any remark the course of his researches, instead of meeting ll on the above, further than to ask-- Is this, then, with evidence to support the Unitarian belief, his the boasted nineteenth century ?--John Bull. convictions were opened to the truths of the Tri. nity. At length finding that he could doubt no 1 Jolin x. 28. 2 Matthew xxv. 16. 3 Mark xvi. 16. longer, he sought the spiritual advice and assistance of the worthy vicar, and has ended by re LONDON: nouncing his former errors, and publicly avowing || Published by JAMES BURNS, 17 PORTMAN STREET, himself a convert to the doctrines of the Cao || PORTMAN SQUARE; and to be had, by order, of all Book: sellers in Town and Country. tholic Church. We understand that Mr. Phelp purposes preparing and duly offering himself as a PRINTED BY ROBSON, LEVEY, AND FRANKLYN, candidate for holy orders in the Church. It is also || GREAT NEW STREET, PETTER LANE. BIBLE. THE ENGLISHMAN'S MAGAZINE. Contents. PAGE 55 Poetry :-The Altar-Spoiler. Lent., Intelligence . . . . . . at Oxford. In this retirement, or rather asylum,-for a military garrison and the residence of a court, as Oxford then was, can scarcely be called a place of retirement,-he devoted himself to liis own, and the superintendence of others' studies. About the same time it was, that the first of his many works appeared, to instruct and bless the world. It has already been observed, that when at Penshurst, he was accustomed, in conformity with the rubric, to catechise his younger parishioners from a form which he had composed for his own private use. On coming to Oxford, he shewed this work to Dr. Potter, the provost of Queen's College, who was so struck at its many excellences, that he strongly urged the publication of it, at the same time offering to superintend the press, and bear whatever expense might be incurred. After considerable persuasion the diffident writer consented in part to this arDR. HAMMOND. rangement; and at their joint expense The Practical Catechism appeared, anonymously, LIFE OF DR. HAMMOND. in the year 1644. This admirable work is (Continued from p. 1.) written in the form of a dialogue between a WAEN Hammond left Penshurst, he first took scholar and catechist; and the principal points refuge with his old tutor Dr. Buckner, with on which it treats are, the doctrine of the first whom he had not resided many days before and second covenants, together with the difhis friend and fellow-pupil Dr. Oliver arrived | ference; the names and the offices of Christ; for the same purpose. After remaining there the names of the three theological graces, faith, about three weeks, the offer of a reward of hope, and charity, together with self-denial, 1001. for the capture of Hammond convinced || repentance, or regeneration; the difference him that he could no longer hold his present and dependence between justification and hiding-place with safety; so he readily ac- || sanctification; and lastly, the thorough unceded to Dr. Oliver's invitation to accom derstanding of our Saviour's sermon on the pany him to Winchester, then one of the mount; besides an exposition of the creed, king's garrisons. While proceeding thither, || the sacraments, and the vow of baptism. To their course was unexpectedly changed. A the value of this work many testimonies might messenger met Oliver with the intelligence, || be adduced. “I cannot tell how it may be that Dr. Frewen, the president of Magdalené | valued by others," says Dr. Potter, « (for College, was dead, and that he was elected to || though we have but one truth, we have many fill the vacant office. This at once deter- || sides), I know how it ought to be, I know how mined the doctor to bend his steps towards | it is by me, whom not only with king Agrippa's Oxford, where he also urged Hammond to || almost, but with St. Paul's altogether, I hope accompany him. To this proposal he at first || it hath persuaded me to become a practical refused to assent, as he thought its distance || Christian. Persuaded, did I say? it is too from Penshurst would make his return to his | narrow an expression : at the reading hereof, beloved parishioners less practicable. But methinks, with St. Paul, I am caught and this objection was at last overruled ; and he || rapt up beyond the pitch and stature of these once again found himself in his old quarters || poor sublunary things below, counting all, as NO. XXVII. MARCH 1843, D |