Executor Henry Fortescue, Esq. There is rather a good story told of the Greek Archbishop who has Overseers-His "trusty and well-beloved" Mr. Richard Lenknor, of been paying us Englishmen a visit. Dining at Magdalen College, Tratton (Justice of the Peace)" and John Cowper, of Ditcham. Oxford, he found a goodly company and a fine spread. One of the hosts remarked to the Prelate, "I trust your Holiness will, when you return to your own country, be able to say that the barbarous people showed me no little kindness.' Archbishop Lycurgus replied "No; I shall say they received me as an Angel of God." 6 July, 15 sixty-nine [1569]. Pd. 2 May, 1570. Thomas Daye, Priest, and one of the Prebendaries of Christ Church, Oxford. First Prebendary of third stall. Christ Church, Oxford, by the new charter, 1546. Precentor of Chichester Cath., May, 1547, till his death. [Born at Newport, Salop, and brother to the Bp. of Chichester, then lately deceased]. And I bequeath to the said Church 18 books of the Doctors upon the Canon and Civil Laws, which books stand first against the door in my little study above. Also, I bequeath to the said Church [Ch. Ch., Cath., Oxford], all those COPES and TUNICLES, ALBS, and pieces to them belonging, which all lie in my greatest coffer above, in my great chamber. To All Soul College [107, and] my five books of the Text of the Civil Law-that is to say, the Code, the 3 books of the Digests, and the "Autentikes," that some young man there may have the use of them, and to leave them to another at his departing, after the discretion of the wardens. Executors-His brothers, Mr. William Daye, Provost of Eton College: and his brother Roger Daye, who then dwelt with his brother Wm., Prov. of Et.; and Roger Daye, who then dwelt at his place called Whitlemere, nigh to Worssfeelde, in Shropshire. The memorial stone of a Presbyterian Church at Hammersmith was laid last week by the Marquess of Lorne, who contended that the Presbyterians should get the best Liturgy they could obtain, and that a greater amount of congregational freedom should be allowed. Dr. Guthrie referred to the struggles of the Church in Scotland, and expressed the same opinion as Lord Lorne with reference to the necessity for the Presbyterian Church adopting a Liturgy in which the people could take part in the responses. The prodigal son of the period is (says the Globe) sometimes to be studied in advertisements. We have been rather amused with the graduation of a series of invitations to return which have been given to one "G. W. S.," a gentleman of thirty, over six feet high, who accomplished disappearance on the 25th of January last. He was entreated some time in February, "to communicate with his mother immediately to relieve her great anxiety." He paid no attentiom to this entreaty; consequently each successive notice was rather angrier than the one before it. And now it has come to this— a If G. W. S. does not return immediately, his HORSE, Chaise, Dogs, Pigeons, and other things, will be sold to pay expenses. What a lamentable prospect for the poor fellow ! In addition to the foregoing, I think the subjoined matter, taken from Canon Cook's masterly volume "On Ceremonies, Lights, &c., 1868," deserves reproduction at this juncture. It is from an indenture now preserved among the Corporation records at Bodmin, made Sunday next after the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel, in the eighth year of Queen The Times correspondent writing from "Rome, March 25th," refers to Elizabeth, between the Mayor of the town and the Churchwardens of a ceremony in the "Minerva," i.e., the Church built on the site of the St. Rothelick, wherein we find "That the said Richard Water and Thos. ancient Temple:-"It includes a grand procession from the Vatican, a Cole, wardens, and their successors' wardens, hath taken and received Service in the Church, and a distribution of dowries by the Pope's own into the hands and keeping of the said Nicholas Cory, Mayor, and of all hand to a considerable number of girls educated and portioned by a the whole parish, to be used and occupied to the honour of God in the same Society which takes its name from the day. The procession combines a Church, from the day and year aforesaid FORWARD all such goods and singular feature which it is scarcely possible for an Englishman to anticiornaments as followeth, and hath taken upon them for themselves and for pate without grotesque associations. I have only to confess that I felt their successors for the time being Mayor, and to all the whole parish of ashamed of them when I saw the reality, as I did on the Bridge of St. Bodmin this time twelvemonths, that is, to wit, first:-Five bells, with Angelo. The Pope's State carriage, all gold, the six horses with gorgeous one which serveth for the clock to be rung daily at four of the clock in trappings, the Pope blessing all about him, a second carriage with six the morning and at eight in the evening, a warning bell for prentices horses, a dozen other of municipal magnificence, dragoons, and so forth, and others. are all as usual. But the feature of this one day of the year is that a Item: One Vestment of green satin of Burges. Item: One whole Cardinal bears a cross before the Pope's carriage, riding a white mule. suit of the velvet [vestments for] Deacon, sub-Deacon and Priest whole That is the programme. What I saw was a dignified figure, in a flowing [i.e., with all appurtenances entirely complete]. Item. A vestment of robe of light purple, with a skull-cap, riding a rather under-sized gray blue velvet; one white cope of satin. Item. One white vestment of mule, with his eyes fixed on the tall cross he bore upright before him, satin-and more-two copes used on Good Friday and an "obe of silk. and apparently in devotion. Half-a-dozen shining halberds surrounded One cross banner of green silk. One [altar] front of yellow and green him, and the silver cross rose just above its satellites of steel. All took satin of Bruges. Two curtains whereof one is silk; another [altar] front off their hats to the cross, and a few seconds after knelt to His Holiness. of arras; another front of saye and curtains of the same. A cushion of The day, fortunately, is brilliant. The point of pressure has been the velvet for the Communion Table and a cushion of silk for Mr. Mayor, piazza before the Church, the one with an obelisk on the back of an his chair, and a cloth of checker work for Mr. Mayor, his chair. A ship elephant. I did not venture there." [for incense] of tin, eight pair of surplices, with one new for Mr. Vicar; four rochets; a Bible and [paraphrase] of Erasmus; two pair of candlesticks [for the Altar] a baton of latten . a lamp before the High Altar. One corporal of red velvet and another of green a corporas cloth; one desk cloth; two stools for [to] set at the Communion Table. Á herse cloth of velvet and another of black buckram; a censor of latten [incense here used]. Two Lent cloths for the Communion Table a sacring bell two caps of silk ell; a cross and an old cross; one communion cup of silver and one other gilt with "hery cock" [?] used at weddings. Evidence such as the foregoing should be re-circulated, it seems to me, at present. I hope to send you some more, generally unknown, or all but unknown data, on this subject. Your obedient servant, Miscellaneous. a cruet M. D. A. Lord Hatherley will shortly cease to be Lord Chancellor, and be succeeded by Sir Roundell Palmer, Q.C., who will be raised to the Peerage by the title of Lord Selborne, of Selborne, in the county of Hampshire. The Home Office has issued an order to the metropolitan coroners, requiring details of all cases of alleged death from starvation. As we stated some weeks ago, Mr. Bright not having recovered so rapidly as his friends hoped he might do, is about to retire from the Board of Trade, and so be again unmuzzled. THE TIME TABLE CONSCIENCE CLAUSE.-We, the undersigned, being the Sub-Committee appointed by the London Association of Church Teachers to consider the amendments to Mr. Forster's Bill, desire to state that, in our opinion, the Time Table Conscience Clause is undesirable for the following reasons:-1. It is open to all the objections urged against the Conscience Clause; for, of course, no child would be excused from attending Scripture lessons, except at the request of its parents. 2. It is impracticable in large schools, and inconvenient in all, from the insufficiency of competent teachers to give religious instruction to all the classes at the same time, for inexperienced and very young teachers cannot be entrusted with this duty. 3. It would be prejudicial to the religious training of the children generally. To excuse a certain portion of the children from attendance at school during the religious lessons would be a standing temptation to ordinary children to urge their parents to obtain exemption for them from attendance in school while some of their schoolfellows were at play. 4. It is contrary to the spirit of the Education Bill, which professes not to interfere with the internal management of existing schools; and it would be the first step towards the exclusion of religious instruction altogether from the ordinary school routine. We also wish to bear testimony, as practical teachers, to the fact that there is really no "religious difficulty" in our schools. Whenever a parent objects to the religious instruction given, the child is usually excused from attendance at religious lessons; such cases are, however, extremely rare, as may be proved by abundant evidence.-T. N. DAY, Abbey-street School, Bethnal-green; T. E. HELLER, Boys'-school, Lambeth, S.E.; G. 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Beg to recommend their ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE CAPS, &c., they are made of the best material, and warranted to wash. Inventors of the IMPERCEPTICLE TRUSS. Belts for the Support of the Back &c., &c. LEE & CO.'S PATENT OLEO CHARTA WATERPROOF WASHABLE The only Remedy for Damp in New or Old Walls. Decorated by First-class Art-Workmen, or Stencilled and Printed in every style, to suit the Palace, the Mansion, and the Cottage. ARCHITECTS' AND DECORATORS' DESIGNS CARRIED OUT ON SHORT NOTICE, WITHOUT EXTRA CHARGE. 5 NEWMAN STREET, LONDON, W. This Fund has been started for the purpose of purchasing a piece of freehold land, and establishing thereon a College for the male Members of the Society of St. Joseph. The property will be vested in Trustees for the use of the Society for ever. The following are some of the intended operations when the College shall have been completed : 1. The conduct of Community Life on the "Religious" system, bound by the fixed Constitution and laws of the Society of St. Joseph (founded 1864). 2. Training Members for Mission Work, with a view to their being lent out to Parish Priests as required. 3. Preparing for Matriculation in the cheap Theological Courses, with a view to their Ordination, those inmates and externs who would be otherwise unable to obtain the necessary preliminary education. In consideration of this, all persons so studying, whether inmates or externs, will be expected to contribute certain fixed sums towards the general expenses; unless, in cases of extreme poverty, the finances of the College shall be in a condition to admit of their being dispensed from such payment. PATRONS. The Rev. the Lord F. G. GODOLPHIN OSBORNE, Elm Sir CHARLES L. YOUNG, Bart., 80, Inverness-terrace, W. The Rev. CHARLES G. C. DUNBAR, of Northfield, M.A., DANIEL RADFORD, Esq., Brixton. W. CLARK-RUSSELL, Esq., Sydenham. The rest of the Patrons are included in the The Rev. F. G. LEE, D.C.L., F.S.A., Vicar of All Saints', The Rev. J. EDWARDS, M.A., Vicar of Prestbury, The Rev. T. J. BALL, M.A., The Cove, Aberdeen. The Rev. S. C. SCHOLEFIELD, M.A., Chard, Somerset. CHAS. H. E. CARMICHAEL, Esq., M.A., Gen. Sec. A.P.U.C. CHARLES WALKER, Esq., Author of "The Ritual Reason Why," &c., 69. London-road, Brighton. J. P. TAYLOR, Esq., A.K.C., 17, Regent's-park-terrace, Gloucester-gate, N.W. E. J. ARMYTAGE, Esq. (late 39th Regiment), 2, Cumberland-villas, Lavender-hill, S. E. S. N. KEMP, Esq., D.L., The Mission, Chiswick. W. CARR, Esq., the High-street, Stoke Newington, N. ROPOSED NATIONAL HOSPITAL PROPOSE FOR INCURABLES, COWLEY ST. JOHN, NEAR OXFORD. The readers of the CHURCH HERALD are invited to attend the MEETING which is to be held at the CITY TERMINUS HOTEL, Cannon-street, on Thursday, the 31st inst.. at Four p.m., for the purpose of promoting the establishment of a Hospital for Incurables, the distinctive feature of which will be the admission of Patients without canvassing, the necessities of the case being the sole recommendation. The following Noblemen and Gentlemen have promised to attend and advocate the interests of the Hospital:-The Duke of Northumberland (Chairman), the Marquis of Salisbury, the Lord Mayor, the Earl of Devon, the Earl of Carnarvon. the Bishop of Winchester, Sir Thomas Watson, M.D., F.R.C.P.; Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, M.P.; J. G. Talbot, Esq., M.P.; C. H. Mills, Esq., M.P.; R. N. Fowler, Esq., M.P.; H. Barnett, Esq., M.P,; Rev. Canon Gregory, Rev. Canon Liddon, and Andrew Clark, Esq., F.R.C.P., and other influential personages, if their arrangements permit. Persons unable to attend the Meeting, but desirous of supporting the undertaking, are requested to apply for information, &c., to the Hon. Secretary, at the temporary offices of the Hospital, No. 7, Godliman-street, Doctor's Commors. Donations and Subscriptions may be paid to the account of the Hospital at Messrs. Barnett, Hoare's, Lombard-street, or forwarded direct to the Hon. Secretary, C. Hope Johnstone, to whom all cheques and money orders should be made payable. 7, Godliman-street, E.C., March 28, 1870. T. FAITH'S MISSION, Stoke ST. Newington. This Mission has been carried on in a new aud rapidly increasing district for more than twelve months with considerable success. Upwards of 70 children are under instruction in the schools. Constant Services are held in the temporary school Chapel, viz., frequent celebrations of the Blessed Sacrament, daily Matins, and Evensong, with additional Services during the Holy Seasons. A Mission House has been provided for the Priest in charge in which rooms are set apart for Night Schools, Reading Room, and Lectures. A site has been purchased for a permanent Church, and when it is erected, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners will assign it a legal dtstrict and endow it. All the sittings in the new church will be free and unappropriated. The time, however, for completing the scheme is limited, and, if allowed to drop, others are ready with funds to take it up in a way of which Catholic Churchmen could hardly approve. The Committe3, therefore, earnestly invite all Churchmen who are desirous of maintaining the Church's privileges in all their fulness to come to their assistance. The architect will build the chancel, so as to accommodate the existing congregation and obtain the legal district for £2,500. Two Churchmen are ready to come forward with £100 each, provided twentythree others will do the same, so that the work might be commenced at once, and carried forward to its com The Rev. THOMAS HUGO, M.A., Rector of West Hackney.pletion. The Rev. WALTER WALSH, M.A., St Mary Magdalen's HON. SECRETARY. H. C. SYKES, Esq., A.K.C., 12, Windsor-road, Holloway, N. HON. TREASURER. C. H. E. CARMICHAEL, Esq., M.A., New University Club, St. James'-street, S. W. AUDITORS. H. R. GOUGH, Esq., Tollington Park, N. London and South Western (Holloway Branch), Seven Percy Arden, Esq. The Rev. the Lord F. G. Godolphin Osborne 5 0 0 Subscriptions and Donations will be thankfully received by the Hon. Treasurer, care of Mr. Hayes, Lyall-place, Eaton-square, S.W.; at the Offices of the Church Times (32, Little Queen-street, Lincoln's-innflelds, W.C.), the Church Review (13, Burleigh-street, Strand, W.C.), and the Church Herald (198, High Holborn, W.C.) 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Cheques to be crossed “London and South-Western Bank, Holloway Branch." P.0.0. payable at Manorplace Post-office, in Upper Holloway, N. Hon. Treasurer, J. Cox, Esq., 11, Seven Sisters'-road, N. Hon. Secretary, H. R. GOUGH, Esq., Tollington Park, N. ALMON, ODY, AND London: Printed by JOHN HIGGS BATTY, at 6, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, E.C.; and Published for the Proprietors by THOMAS BOSWORTH, 198, High Holborn, W.C.-April 6th, 1870. As S Six Months have now passed since the first appearance of the CHURCH HERALD, we trust that our readers will allow us earnestly to urge upon them both our claim and our need for their increased support. Our progress in the last three months has been most encouraging, but we would remind those who desire to see the CHURCH HERALD well established that they must exert themselves. It is very difficult to produce such a paper for a penny, and a great sale is absolutely essential to success. Our friends can help us in three ways, first, by getting others to take the paper (let each one get a friend to take it in), secondly by buying extra copies and distributing them so as to make our principles more generally known, thirdly very valuable help is afforded by persons sending us any items of Church news which fall in their way. We have to return thanks to very many for their most kind aid hitherto, which we hope they will continue. In conclusion we call upon all who FEAR GOD AND HONOUR THE QUEEN to support us; our principles are those which have raised England to her high position. We believe that all authority comes from God, consequently loyalty is a part of religion. Knowing that His Church is One, we desire to see her breaches healed, but not by means of one arrogant portion of the Family on earth domineering over the other; far otherwise, let us unite as brethren. A great struggle is now going on between those who hold with us, and the Radical movers of sedition; it is of the utmost importance that we should exert ourselves to spread the knowledge of true and sound principles far and wide. We are ready to continue this bold enunciation of them, and only call on those who agree with us to aid us by circulating the CHURCH HERALD widely. Each number contains two Articles on topics of immediate interest, also a Review of some Theological work, Short Notices of Books and Periodicals, all the Church News which possesses any special interest, from all parts of the world, Reports of Meetings, Notes Antiquarian or Historical, besides interesting Correspondence to which much space and wide liberty are conceded by the Editor. REVISION.-No. II. OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED. SUNDRY objections are made to the revision of our excellent authorised translation. Those who are anxious to see strenuous efforts made, and made at once, to secure for English-speaking men as perfect a translation as can be obtained of the written Word of God, must expect to be stigmatised as Revolutionists. They might justly, we think, maintain that the onus probandi lies with those who take the opposite view, but as the prejudices of well to inquire what answer can be given. society are formidable, and require an answer, it will be as Objectors will say that our present version is a venerable one, and the object of affectionate and almost idolatrous hold words, and have been familiar to our ears from our regard; that any change in texts which have become houseearliest infancy, will loosen the roots of religion itself: that even if there be a certain amount of unreason in this instinctive attachment, it is valuable and not to be shocked; that when there are too many to whom novelty for its own sake is dangerously attractive, it would be unwise to lose a chance of maintaining at least one bulwark of stability, as long as was possible, inviolate. Our Conservative sympathies favour a priori this plea, but its real value entirely depends upon the importance of the matter in question. A substance is not to be sacrificed to its accidents, nor primary to be preferred to secondary advantages. The longer such a step is deferred, the more startling it must pretend that our present version deserves, or can expect, an be when its time does come; for we suppose that none will absolute immortality. Procrastination will only intensify the evil that is apprehended; a hundred years hence the inconvenience of to-day will be a matter of tenfold greater difficulty. Besides, why need we view possible evils of a revision through a magnifying glass? Why should it not be a principle with our revisors to abstain, as far as possible, from innovation? Why may we not expect to see, after necessary alterations made, the great bulk of our "household words unchanged? Why should we deny ourselves the vantage ground resulting from such a discovery? The greatest possible respect for status in quo is precisely what we advocate, and we have reason to conclude, that if the work of revision is conducted with expedition, but without precipitation (and no one can accuse the English school of Divinity of an erratic audacity), the very wishes of the better-let-alone fraternity would be better secured by their opponents than by themselves. amount of interest in a revised version, which, if we had the Nor must we forget that at present there is just that choice, we ought to prefer. There is no vulgar clamour raised, no scurrilous ridicule of our present translation, none of the hot blood of party spirit. We have fair weather and a clear course, and nothing beyond that awakening interest which might operate well without the baneful concomitants of misdirected zeal. We all prize and love what we have. We are right in supposing that there is not a version in the whole world that approaches our own for honesty and felicity of revised; and revised it must be, when that happy time comes, when our present unbrotherly contentions bave in some measure abated or disappeared. language. Our principles of criticism are of the soundest. itself would disappear, if the Book of Common Prayer were The very absence of the highest proficiency in lingual researches would serve our purpose, and restrain us from the audacious flights for which we justly censure the nation which unquestionably takes the lead in such studies. We have probably just that degree of critical acumen and respect for antiquity which would enable us to appropriate all that is most sound in ancient and modern times; to enter, in fact, into other men's labours with the best discrimination and effect. If this is not the fact, the truth would soon manifest itself in the progress of the work, and a cry would be instinctively raised for even a greater amount of caution than at present we consider to be necessary; and attention would be paid to that cry. But there are others who believe that changes might be made in their theological system if favourite texts were disturbed; and this they dread. Now such texts must be either correctly rendered or not. If they are correctly rendered they will remain in all probability as they were; if not, the chances are in favour of their being improved by revision. But of this objection, as of many others, we may truly ask-Are we for the sake of a few narrow-minded and timorous critics to forego the following advantages ?-Elucidation of obscure texts; encouragement of theological science with that of philology, especially the study of Hebrew, which has never been cultivated as it ought in any portion of the Church; the discomfiture of those who taunt us with the stationary character of our acquirements; and lastly, the unspeakable privilege (which no one can affirm will not be realised) of being able to know with greater certainty what was said by our Lord himself, and by Prophets, Apostles, Evangelists, and others not coming under these titles, who spoke as they were inspired by the Holy Ghost. The fact is that our want of genuine interest is only too conspicuous from the delay that has already occurred. It would give us a better opinion of ourselves if it were not the first, but the second or third revision of the authorised version that was now under discussion. Still we by no means say that had it been attempted it would have been a success. The same abeyance of interest which prevented it from being undertaken implies an absence of those qualifications which would have prevented failure. A Divine of the Catholic school is not liable to be warped by this unworthy timidity. His area is larger; he has some acquaintance with Patristic interpretation, and the great foreign theologians, and through them, with translations of texts more or less at variance with our version. The so-called Evangelical school had, and has, no claims to a reputation for an extended range of study. Their constant appeal is to the Bible; but their's is after all not the Bible in strictness of language; it is a translation of it, which however excellent it may be, is no substitute for familiarity with the text and with commentators of varied dates and countries. When we say this, we repeat that we do not mean for one moment to run down our version as a perversion of the sense of the original, but only gently to suggest that it must have the disadvantages to which all translations are exposed. Many overstrained notions of Inspiration have been broached, but certainly none of them ever claimed for the Authorized Version, in company with the "Septuagint " any miraculous interposition of Providence, to prevent the inevitable fallibility of human translators. If there be a system which leans too much to the very wording of such an authority, the sooner a reverence so servile and exaggerated receives a check the better. Others find a difficulty in the discrepancies that would occur between this new translation and the portions of Scripture imbedded in our various Offices; but this can hardly be considered as of much importance, as we have all the inconvenience of different versions in our different Services already, and do not seem to suffer much from it. But this difference Others, on the proposal of a revision, cry out-" That the great bond which unites all English-speaking Churchmen is in danger of being broken." The idea of one Bible, is to them like the idea of one Church, or rather there is reason to fear the latter is lost in the former. Now no one denies them the right of considering this common Bible as a blessing and a source of pride. But what is sacrificed to it? That is the question. Have we not in this case a sentiment setting itself above positive advantages of a higher rank? It is a question of predominance. On which side does the balance lie? Surely it is better to secure an accurate translation of God's written Word than to perpetuate the peculiarities which tend to make a portion of Christendom distinct from the rest. Some have their doubts whether this is desirable at all. But in truth we can hardly be seriously setting this plea at a very high value when we are translating our Bible into every known language for Missionary purposes, and doing our best to have these translations as correct as possible, There seems no reason why we should not secure for ourselves what we are anxious to give to others. Others, again, despair of ever seeing a version so pure and majestic in language as the present one. We ourselves yield to none in our admiration of this feature in our present version. We have no words strong enough to express our high estimate of its simplicity and stateliness; but we have no idea of surrendering this. We would most earnestly adjure those who take part in a revision not to sacrifice this feature. We have not the same sense of rhythm now-a-days; but surely we have taste enough to adapt our emendations to the style of the bulk of the book. If in some cases it seems essential to render with extreme accuracy in defiance of idiom, notices of this can be recorded in the margin, which also would be a convenient place for other matter, such as various readings, equal, or not far inferior, to those in the text. These are the principal objections which we have seen urged; if there are others, we feel assured that, however grave they may be, the pros, on mature reflection, will preponderate over the contra. THE PRIVY COUNCIL'S JUDGMENT. THE late decision of the Committee of Privy Council in Mr. Bennett's case, in principle is not worth much. It is mainly valuable so far as that therein the said Committee have, for the first time for several years, shown some trifling amount of fairness in their dealings with Church doctrine and Churchmen. The Church Association were desirous, as it seems, of criminating the Vicar of Frome in respect of a protest set forth by him, and of a pamphlet published by him, more than ten years ago, against the party decision made by the late Archbishop of Canterbury in the matter of the Archdeacon of Taunton; wherein Mr. Bennett was alleged to have contravened the Twenty-ninth Article of Religion, as to the wicked eating the Body of Christ in the Sacrament, and in asserting the Real Presence therein. These pertinacious bloodhounds do not, as it seems, acknowledge any statutes of limitation to their persecuting hate; forgive and forget is an unknown maxim with them. But they have received on this occasion a rebuff which they will not easily forget, and which may perhaps cool their vindictive and untiring zeal. If we understand the judgment of the Court aright, it has confirmed absolutely the decision of the Judge of the Arches Court, that the Articles of charge did not set forth from the works of the defendant any passages which contravened this Twenty-ninth Article, and that in this important particular the prosecution has wholly failed. In point of fact this question would seem to have been foisted into the pleadings, mainly in order to increase the Proctor's costs and Mr. Stephens's fees, which are not small, our readers may rest assured. We think we may gather from this Judgment a hint, that in questions of transcendental doctrine and opinion, which have no practical effect with ordinary people, and which, in fact, nine-tenths of the members of the English communion do not understand or do not care about, a considerable latitude will hereafter be allowed, even to those who are called High Churchmen, by the Secular Power; but that, in all that relates to the embellishment of public worship, and to outward rites and ceremonies, by which alone the masses may really be affected and won back to Catholic Christianity-a pertinacious system of oppression and resistance will be exercised towards them. We fear that such are the views of the Bishop of London, and of others of the Bishops of his platform. Unaffected and even wearied by beauty of ceremonial themselves, they are still blind to the fact that the former bald and bare mode of perfunctory recitation of the Divine Offices has not only failed to bring the people to Church or even to keep them there, but has instead, during the last century-anda-half, repelled them from frequenting the Sanctuary, and scared them into Dissenting Chapels, where religion is vulgarised to suit their debased tastes. Our ecclesiastical heads cannot yet understand that men—and especially women-are rarely attracted, or converted, or won, to love saving truth or hearty worship, with its practical concomitants and consequences, unless it be accompanied by acts of corresponding external dignity and significance. It is surely manifest that the Catholic Faith imperatively demands the Catholic Ritual; momentous words and doctrines must be expressed by suitable signs and gestures to produce their due and proper effect. By the one, indeed, you may partially convince the understanding, but it is with the other that you must stir up the affections, and effectually move the heart; according to the wise aphorism of Seneca "Homines amplius oculis quam auribus credunt; longum iter est per precepta; breve et efficax per exempla." For these reasons we rejoice unfeignedly at what appears to be the total collapse of the prosecution against Mr. Purchas. The promoter in that suit expired recently, and as is known the good old Bishop of Chichester, who originally authorised him to institute it, himself died of old age some time since. "Actio personalis moritur cum persona," so that not only is there no one left to prosecute the appeal, but nobody even to carry into effect the judgment already pronounced which, therefore, except so far as being an enunciation of the views of the Judge of the Prerogative Court for the time being, becomes an absolute nullity; and the defendant not only gets rid of all responsibility for that in which he has been condemned, but escapes his liability for costs. This being so, we would put it to Mr. Purchas himself, whether it would not be worth while for him to reconsider his actual position, and to confine his ceremonial for the present to those points and matters which have never yet been decided by the superior Secular Court. any Priest There was an old Roman General, qui cunctando restituit rem. There was a loyal and gallant Prince, who, by too impetuous and headlong a charge, lost the fatal battle of Naseby when it was all but won. Why should just now elect to be the Prince Rupert of the Ritual controversy, and by an inopportune and too adventurous rashness risk the defeat of the Catholic revival altogether? The late decisions of the Arches Court are open to the gravest criticism, and in several important points seem to us to be most illogical and irrational; and after all they are but the dicta of a subordinate tribunal to which general obedience is not due. For our part, we have great confidence in the cause which we advocate, and in the final prevalence of Catholic principle and practice in Divine Worship; but then our efforts must not be paralysed or put in jeopardy by the inconsiderate zeal of those who wish to appropriate the fruits of victory before the desired success has been achieved. Reviews of Books. MISSION SERMONS PREACHED AT ST. PAUL'S, Knightsbridge AT THE LONDON MISSION OF NOVEMBER, 1869. By Rev. W. J. E. Bennett. (Hayes, London. Pott and Amery, New York.) There was a peculiar fitness in the selection of Mr. Bennett to preach at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, during the Mission. Many of those among whom in time past he laboured still, live there, and a peculiar interest must have been felt by all in hearing these remarkable Sermons from one who had done and suffered so much for that parish. Mr. Bennett's energy eminently fits him, combined as it is with deep spiritual He dedicates this volume learning, for conducting a Mission. to those eminent Missioners the Evangelist Fathers at Cowley, in a preface of considerable length in which he points out the great value of a Mission held by other than the usual Clergy of a place. This is followed by eleven Sermons all bearing on one another, and on the Spiritual life: the first treats of the Soul contrasting it with the body, pointing out the dangers which beset it, and so leading to the consideration in the next Sermon of Sin, that bane of man and curse to all creation. Having spoken of the soul as inhabiting a living body, he commences here by a vivid description of a dead body, death being the result of sin, but death having taken away all power of action it becomes then dead unto sin. He. proceeds : The same Now, my brethren, what that dead body is to sin, we ought also to be even while we are here in the flesh as Christians. incapacity, powerlessness, want of will to sin ought to be in us as children of God now. We ought to present ourselves-our souls and bodies-as perfect "a living sacrifice," as that body is a dead sacrifice in its powerlessness to sin. Our thoughts ought to be as free, our will passion, as pure as that passionless flesh which you see before you. as motionless, our every member of the body, wherein lurks the seat of But, my brethren, are we so? Are we anything like this? Is the life which we lead here in this world anything approaching such abolition of sin as is described by the figure dead unto sin." You behold a tree in your garden, of which you know the berries are poisonous, and down the stem, level it to the earth, and think you have killed it. But you ought to cut it down for safety. lo! all around the original stem spring up a multitude of little shoots, which you do not notice, and think of no consequence. The tree is not dead; you have cut down the stem, but not taken out the roots. life that you suffer to go on in the untouched root is your death. So of sin. You need not be a monster of lust, or a furious murderer, or a miser hoarding up gold, or a drunkard, or a blasphemer; but you may have within and about your heart, and in your daily life, a number of shoots of little sins, which are all alive and feeding on you, and destroying you day by day because you have not extracted the root. Try whether this is not so. (pp. 23-4). you know You cut The Next in order we have a powerful Sermon on Repentance, in which we note that all the wicked men seem to be found by the preacher among the rich and the higher ranks of society; but he may have been led to draw one-sided illustrations from the nature of the congregation he had to preach to at St. Paul's. Following this naturally comes Conversion, which is most ably treated of. Its true nature is shown, and the result which immediately follows it, in the desire to avoid all evil by a course of Self-Examination, of which the next Sermon treats, wherein are pointed out the evils which arise from the defective manner in which it is often carried on, so that :— when I am trying to find out what my sins are? Can that itself be a Self-examination might turn out a sin. What! you will say; a sin! sin? Yes, in this very respect of a wrong criterion. Pride and selfsufficiency; by putting out of sight what ought to be seen, through comparing what our sins are in reference to men and not to God, might be |