The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-08-13 00:00:00

Littraturt.

LITTZIN rpm( THIN FMNIIOP CP SAITEMORY'II
VilAmos, TO A LAYMAN OE THII DUN:IAL by gm
Ver. W. PZEcAT•L W• 1.11), Rector of Compton
Valence. Loudon: The Church Prom Comproy
(Limited).

The Bishop of Salisbury seemed to have arrived at
the very ezirense of misfortune, in having all the in.
telligenos of the Diocese arrayed !against him, with none
to acknowledge Lim or his new doctrines of the Church
of Reiland : but deeper calamity has befsßan him: a
still mole bitter drop in his cop of morrow bas been
swallowed by him : a friend and champion has appeared:
and the Ray. W. P. Ward, Realtor of Compton Wens,
inning from his retirement. has oome forth to do battle
is. his loodship's behalf. Who the layman may be who
has been honoured with this oorrespondenon, we know
not : it nosy be the principal inhabitant of • certain
parboil, who, im we understand, has left his parish
church, in connonence of the tomfooleries that are
carried OD there; if so, we don't think that gentleman le
likely to he brought barn by Use they. Ritualist', letters.
Of wane Mr. Ward eaderses all that the Bishop affirms,
boldly masertiog that they have ever been the doctrine@
of the Reformed Church of Reiland, and of those who
bate acquired the name of " Steeds:4 Divines." If
that is the one, why does not the rev. gentlemen give
us quotations from the.. "Standard Divines," and from
the authorised documents of the (lurch ; instead a
reasserting in weak and inoonolualve dogmatism what
was needed with sufficient obscurity in the Bishop's
Charge? In the preface he tells us that these letters
are published to bolo us "ton more may understanding
of that finished and masterly treatise." Well : we did
really need soon help, and if Ur. Ward had wade-
wended to point out its " finished and manerly" points,
we should have been obliged to hum; but as it is, he
has ouly succeeded in making it. monstrous saseverationa
more glaringly abeurd—its total= to consistency with
the Prayer Book, more evidently unfounded : and thus
the first note of approbation is no Ell Ore confirmatory of
that Asir, than a parrot's vary defective imitation of
his muter • utteranes.

After • dissertation as to the difference of theology
and anthropology, and tbeo-anthropetleey, we come
to the question of Absolution by the Priest Here of
course the Prayer of Atmlotion is quoted in the asual
gerbled style; and because the Print has 'pow., and
commandment to ageism sad p5....1••• t. hie "mid*
being pt nitent the Absolution and remission of their
wins," therefore, he anisette that th edealaration has apowm.
Vit .1 would not have from any other parson ; • bit of
logic worthy of aZ edmiration. He doss not go on cad
tell us whet Cm Priest I. obliged to nay afterwards,
nor how, placing himself aide by side with his peon*
'he invitee them with himself to ask for that repeatenes
which is • nt misery step towards pardon, and which
pate on end to all that priestly presampliba which •
'garbled extract may seem to favour. Bat let= ask
'oeurselves this question? If a tam is truly penitent,
cannot he be pardoned without a Priest if be is isof
Witty penitent, can the Priest pardon him? and the
necewary answers to those questions will satisfy any
reasonable man upon this point. The fact of the Abso-
lution being pronounced by a Priest., and not by a
.triar-on, proves no more than the fact that •
Denton cannot preach the impel, except by special
permission. The words of the Ordination Service
Um been so of a:phased in the writings of
tht. real Standard Divines of our (lurch, the Be-
'formers themselves, that it Is enoosh to my that
"le meaning attached to thess by the Bishop and his one
supporter sever has been the teaching of the Church of
England, bat is utterly opposed to it, and leads
necessarily. as it does In Mr. Ward's letters, to the
whole mystery of iniqoity concealed under the eon-
feestonal. Further on we read this remerkable
" There are two ways ni receiving the mysassta of
g.
the Christim religion' the first is itatult:vely from early
teaching in childhood. jest as we learn to speak, we
know sot bow—thus did we all of us receive theme
Am:meet of all mysteries, that of the Holy Trinity, and
*at of the Inearaation of the second person. The
langusge of this passage is worthy of its assertion. We
thought that what we received by inlisnion we received
traAoal trarAing. Perhaps the rev. gentleman's early
education was of a superior kind, evidently his
intuitive power, were peculiar. And we all received
those tremendous mysteries! S. John says, "livery
that confesseth that Jesus Christ is some in the
flesh is of God." So according to the Bishop's champion
we an in our earlier days had "that spirit that is of
God." A most ownfortable doctrine. Way, we re.
mired tbs. truths by intuition, or natural powers of
perception. And yet 8. Paul says, "No man can my
H
that Jesus is the Lord but by the oly Ghost." Who
to right, the AposUes or these their remarkable
euccemors ?

spe:king of "the reel presence," he deolares that
the fuldlment of Christ's promise. "Lo I I am with
you always," &a, is Am presence of the Holy Ghost
rather than of himself. E. Paul prays for the Ephesians
that Christ may dwell in their hearts by faith. And
again, "Where two or three are withered together,"
Am, triers more especially to God's house where
priest is present." We ono conceive settling more
dangerous than thus limiting the grace of God, and
tying it down, as it were, to the skirts of a human
priest. But he id kind enough to sum up several pages
of unmeaning argumentation, almost as "masterly sad
fini.hed" as the *huge itself, in Um following pro-
position.

Page 32. Isl proposition. In the Holy Eucharist,
upon the words of comma:ration, the body and blood of
the living Christ, are truly present under the Sum,
mental specks of bread and wine.
propo.ition. Therefore by virtue of the
Hypostatic union, His whole person is pieseat ; body
end soul, and spirit.
These prorecitions are simply • paraphrase of
the decrees of the Council of Trent. We deny
them altogcther. That Christ is present "by the
words of maceration" ix utterly inconsistent with the
Church's teaching, that laiiA is the means whereby He
I. rec.ived : if be is present "by the words of consecra•
*ion," then be is present, even if the priest, who pro-
nounces these words, sod every one in the congregation,
be an nnbeliver, which is quite impossible, if the
Chnrob's teaching be correct. If he is present
'"ohjectively" in the bread and wins, Men whoever
stakes the bread and wine must reorive Him, whether
faithful or infidel, which is absurd.

The 3rd propoaition is ono that no one can disprove,
IbeOMISS it professes to place th , matter beyond the
reach of human diseerament, by the help of soveral
long words, which only tend to make that obscure whieb
is perfectly clesr to every child al God.
. . . .

4th. A. to Christ's ;inking a perpetual oblation of
Himself in Heaven, it is quite contrary to Scripture,
which says that "by one offering He bath perfected for
ever them that are sanotified." Perhaps the writer,
felt ibis, and so misquotes Scripture, and speaks of the
Lamb f God, as standing as it were slain. Whereas
the test Is, "u it had been slain." Standing no it
were slain is simple nonsense : it would Imply standing
as lambs do stand when they are slain, that is, lying
down dead. Scripture speaks of Him as one that had
been slain, but is now alive; no more death or suoifice.
And It is than that thee' man play with Scripture,
altering one word hers, and another there, but such
shifts only show that they feel that the troth is hope-
lessly slimiest. them.... .

But ag- sin he says it is • sacrifice four ways.
lat. Th. whole is • saaridos of praise and thanks.
gi;i. int." It is • true sacrifice of the elements and our-
nave&

—TUG deduction is original, to say the least of it- we
thought that the offering of ourselees was the morilice
of praise end thanksgiving : we never beard of this
splendid distinction before. And as to the sacrifice
el the elements, as it is against our Crush's express
ration, so it is an absurdity repeat tor any 10 Swallow,
but thew labeller learnt their religion by "intaition.•
The last two reasoner. alvo marvellously ineonclusive.
It is a sacrifice because it is • memorial," and it is •
macrifice "because of the premier of the Host—the
Lamb of God"—so conolusive is this that the bonsai
Protestant answers: It is not • netlike, bears it is
& memorial; and it is not a sacrifice, because Christ is
present in the herr of his faithful people, sad there-
ire is oot offered on the altar. Andlsit by such rubbish
es this that the great and glorious work wrought out
by our Reformers is to be replaosd ? What it revered
• Critomer, • Latimer, and • Jewel to effect, is the 1
Rev. W. P. Ward to destroy? Is the glorious blase of '
truth that the Martyrs lit up of old, to be extinguished
by inch puny squirts se this? We don't meth fear
✓ah a consummation, nor scold anything more dearly
show the trperesnese of the ranee, than the fast that
such a performance, as theee letters, is put forth in its
defence. The laity is too well informed to be Imposed
upon by such mock learning, and pretended power of
rearming—they have been watching the clergy
narrowly of late, and they judge of a man now,
not by what he rya but by what he is.
We herd • layman not long since, remarking
on the backwardness of the clergy to declare
their opinions, as eenspared with the radio*s of the
arcreheardene, say, It they leave us to do all the work,
perhaps we shall Ind and they will find, that we can do
without them. And these preemie letters, if read at all.
will simply excite the good barred ridieele of the in-
telligent laymen, as the work of a man whom their own
Bishop ems West with °confidence, although one day
defending the Jesuits and their doings at Naples,
another eompiling Hymns "Ancient and Modern ;"
time again eadeling at the Pope& Ceremonies of 8.
Albeas ; the advocate of prayer for the dead; and yet
plasma with the sanotion of our Bishop in the manage
rent of the Chooser Choral drier r its ...orrery;
and sow coming forward with hie most damaging sup-
port, end thereby identifying his lordship with himself,
and diary! the intimate connection between all these
performances, bower barmier seem of them may
apprer in the oyes of the unwary.

" Hsrs orr."—Having been greatly aniseed by the
aecounte given in Scissor Omni, of the dislikes evinced
by various animals to different oolours and articles of
dresa, I think an account of poor " Brutus's" peculiar
fancies may not be uninteresUng. The Brutus) allude
to "I • des—the Brutus mentioned by his fond master
(the Hon. crantley F. Berkeley) in many of his weU-
kaown works. I came down into the drawing.room one
day at Wialelen, droned in my hat and cloth heinous;
we were going to the river aide to see Mr. Berkeley fish,
when Brutus, who lay on the rug, got up and looked
at me. He neither growled nor grumbled—simply
l'akad saah • 100 h I cannot describe it; but it
frightened use, fond ae I an, of doge—much as I liked
Brutus; and I cried Out, ruortal fear, "Oh ! whet is
the matter with Brutes. Ilia master looked up, and
immediately spoke to the dog, who reeumei his phieu
"He does not approve of your het,,, He awn, his
wits, thought I; for an uglier felt never eat on
womans head; but it looked like rain, and I did Doi
want to spoil my bonnet. "He is poi partial to
cloaks," added Hr. Berkeley; "a gentleman called
here last week. and Brutus nearly tore lin Inverness
off his shoulders. Ile dislikes blue: my butehe is his
aboudnation. The poor man has tried to couniti:t. him
by brinpng Irina pieces of meat, but in .win; Isis blue
frock is ictis in Bnites's eyes, and it is useless to try
and deceive him by placing another over it; the fellow
haa done that. Brunie on one occasion tumbled
butcher, tray, and all, over in the road; and legs of
mutton, ka, he., Sow ont charmingly. I believe the
butcher used the then empty tray aa • shield." Iw..
far from feeling at ease with Brutus during our walk,
and I caught Um stealing_ anapitious (bums at my
odradini houl-oovering. His master's commands pre-
vented his taking the metier into his own paws, but he
looked "Hat. off !" very plainly.—Eriall in Hard-
'midi Science Aineep fog Ansi**.

Ax l'screxe "Sesniszter."—" Honest men and
bonnie lassies !" Is a toast which one would think
could never bring offence with it; hut while the rule
holds, the exception presents itself. A young minister
in Scotland was about to prtaeb a probsUointry sermon
In a church for the ministry of which he was a candi•
date. Being a stranger, be was housed and entertained
by a kekrishioner, who invited many of his fellows to
sup with the candidate on the Saturday night,. The
elders had quietly saturated themselves with toddy and
smoke, when the unlucky probationer, in his innocence,
proposed, before they parted, " Honept men and bonnie
busies !" The mice righteous hooked through the
mooh,, and over their glass with orthodox
horror, and the most solemn tippler present
arose and said that no minister would have
their sympathy who could not stick quietly to his
liquor, but whose thoughta were running on the
lassies so near the Sabbath ! The company assented,
and the candidate had to forego the honour be coveted.
—Corididi Memorise for August.
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80011C1 OF WIN& —A German Anacreontic tells
that an angel visiting the earth Nome time after the
Deluge discovered Father Noah sitting at noon in the
shadow of • fig-tree, looking very disconsolate. The
angel inquired the cause of his grief. Noah replied
that the noontime heata were oppiessive, and that he
was thirsty, and had nothing to drink. " Nothing to
drink!" said the angel. "Look around! Do not the
rains fall, and the rivers nin, and is there not • spring
of water bubbling up at thy cottage door?" "It Ii
true." answered No•h, smiting his breast, "that there
Ii andanee ef water in which thy servant oan bathe;
bet, ales! when I think of the multitudes of strong
men, of beautiful women, and of innocent children,
end the countless hosts of animals that were drowned
in the Flood, the idea of water becomes distasteful,
and my lips refuse to dank." "There is mime in
what thou sayest," replied the angel, and spreading his
snow-white wings he flew up to heaven, swift as •
lightning-flash, and while the eyes of Noah were still
dauled by the brightness of his presence, returned witli
sonic stocks of the vine, which he taught the grateful
patriarch how to plant and tend, and when the fruit
was ripe how tepees. into wine. This, says the song,
was the source of all the beneficent and benevolent
drinks which the world owes to the grape.—Blaclamers
Mopes ice for August.

Tat AGIUMILATILIIL PRABANTRY. —We have been
shacked by the former revelations of the oommissionsre
a Lila* girls wifaridilag slealse-Labaul..••• arsd working .•
blacksmiths, of young boys expteeed night slid day to
the fearful heat of 'bus furnaces, of infante pent up in
fetid garrets and cellars sinking under the effects of
premature and exhausting labour, and we cannot fail
to be impreesied with the frightful evils which seem to
be inseparable from agricultural gangs. The children
employed in them may not be liable to the same
physical deterioration as those engaged in laosmaking
end straw-plaiting, for they breathe the pure air of
heaven while occupied in their yearly round of toil, but
they are enveloped in an atmosphere of moral corrup-
tion, paralleled probably only in the interior of Africa. It
I, for the State to interpose to avert the evils with which
the country is threatered from the continuance of this
frightful abuse, and to become the protector of those
who are 'citable to protect themselves. Its interposi-
tion has been invoked even by the parents of the
victims of cupidity and oppression. The true remedy
may be difficult to discover, for it will necessarily
involve some interference with the liberty of the
rubject, but, if we are left without any remedial
measures whatever, our female peasantry will assuredly
be reduced to the state of utter debasement in which
remedies will be no longer available, for their ruin will
have become irretrievable and oomplete.— Querferif
Review, new number.

KNIGHT EH The knight errant was usually
some young knight who had been lately dubbed, and
who, full of courage and tired of the monotony of his
father's manor house, asked leave to go in search of
adventures. We could envy him aa, on some bright
spring morning, be rode across the sounding draw-
bridge, followed by • squire in the person of some
young forester, as full of animal spirits and reckless
courage as himself, or, perhaps, by some steady old
warrior, practised in the last French war, whom his
father has chosen to take care of him. We sigh for our
own lost youth as we think of him, with all the world
before him—the median' world, with all lie paid.
bilities of wild adventure and romantic fortune, with
caitiff knights to overthrow with his spear, and dis-
tressed damsels to succour, and princesses to win as
the prize of some great tournament, and rank and fame to
gain by prewar and daring under the eye of kings in
some great stricken fiebL . . . Usually,
perhaps, there was not much danger in theme adventures
of • knight errant, not more than in the sports of the
lists. There was a fair prospect of bruises, and a risk
of broken bones if he got an awkward fall, but not
more risk perhaps than in the modern hunting-fieldo
Even if the combat went further than the usual three
courses with bated spears, if they did draw swords and
continue the combat on foot, there was usually no
more real danger than in a duel of German students.
But sometimes canal of anger would accidentally arise
between two errant knight., or the combat began in
courtesy would fire their hot blood, and they would
resolve ' worshipfully to win worship, or die knightly
on the field," and a serious encounter would take
plan. There were even some knights of evil disposi-
tion enough to take delight in making every combats
serious one, and some of the adventures in which we
take most interest relate how these blood-thirsty
bullies, attacking in ignorance some Knight of the
Bound Table, got a well deserved blood-letting for their
plains. We must give one example of • combat—rather
• long one, but it combines many different points of
interest. "So as they (Merlin and King Arthur) went
thus bilking they came to a fountain, and • rich
pavilion by it. Then was King Arthur aware where a
knight sat all armed in a chariot. ' Sir Knight,' said
King Arthur, 'for what cause abidest thou here, that
there may no knight ride this way, but if he do just with
thee ,• leave that custom." Thu custom,' said the
Knight, 'have I used, and will use maugre who saith
nay; and who is grieved with my custom, let him
amend it that will." I will amend it,' rah King
Arthur. 'And I shall defend it,' math the Knight.
Anon he took his horse awl dressed his shield, end took
• spear; and they met so hard either on other's shield,
that they shivered their spears, Therewith King Arthur
drew his sword. 'Nay not so,' saith the Knight, 'it
is fairer that we twain run more together with
spears." I will well,' said King Arthur, 'and I had
any more spears,' 1 have spears enough,' said the
Knight So there came • squire, and brought two
good spears, and King Arthur took one and he another;
so they spurred their horses, and came together with
all their might that either break their spears in their
hands. Then King Arthur set hand to his sword.
Nay,' add the Knight, 'ye shall do better; ye area
pining good juster as ever! met withal; for the love of
the high order of knighthood let us just it once again.'
'I assent me,' said King Arthur. Anon there were
, brought two good spears, and each Knight got • spear,
'and therewith they ran together, that King Arthur's
spear broke to shivers. But the Knight hit him so
hard in the middle of the shield, that horse and man
fell to the earth, wherewith King Arthur WM eon
and drew out his sword, end said, 'I will assay thee,
Sir Knight, on foot, for I have lost the honour on
' I will be on horseback,' said the
Knight. Then was King Arthur wrath, and
dressed his shield towards him, with his sword
sword drawn. When the Knight maw that, he alighted
for him, for he thought it was no worship to have a
knight at such advantage, he to be on horseback, and
the other on foot, and so alighted, and dressed himself
to King Arthur. Then there began • strong battle
with many great strokes, end so hewed with their
swords that the cantor's flew on the field, and much
blood they bled both, eo that all the place where they
fought was all bloody ; and thus they fought long and
rested them, and then they went to battle again, and so
hurtled together like two wild boars, that either of
them fell to the earth. Bo at the last they smote
together, that both their swords met even together.
But the sword of the Knight smote King Arthur's
sword in two pieces, wherefore he was heavy. Then
said the Knight to the King, ' Thou sit in my
whether me list to slay thee or save thee -and butlecon
yield thee as overcome and recreant, thou shalt die.'
'As for death,' said King Arthur, 'welcome be it
when it °plinth, but as to yield mete thee as recreant,
I had Benito/1e than be so shamed.' And therewithal
the King leaped upon Palinore, and took him by the
middle, and threw him down, and rased off his helmet.
When the Knight felt that he was a dread, for he wee a
peeling big men of might • and anon he brought King
Arthur under him, and rase'd off his helmet, and would
have smitten off his head. Tharewithal came Merlin,
and said, 'Knight, hold thy . hand."'—From "The
Knights of the Middle Ages" In The Art Journal for
August, which is in all points an excellent number of an
excellent periodical.

Ma CAILYLS Oil THI RZFOIN OF Panu•newt.
Inexpressibly delirious it seems to me, at present in
my solitude, is the puddle of Parliament and public upon
what it culls the "Reform Measure ;" that is to say the
calling in of new supplies of blockliesdism, gullibility,
bribesbility, amenability to beer and bidderdsalt, by
way of amending the woes we have had from our
previous suppliee of that bad article. The intellect of
a man who believes in the possibility of improvement
by such • method is to me a finished off And shut up
intellect, with which I would not argue: mere waste of
wind between us to exchange words on that class of
topics. It is not thought, this which my reforming
brother utters to me,with such emphasis and eloquence;
it is mere "reflex and reverberation," repetition of
whet be has &Ivey. heard ether.' Imagining to think,
and repeating as orthodox, indisputable, and the gospel
of our salvation in this world. . . . . Meanwhile
the good that lies in this delirious WV Reform measure
—as their has something of good in almost everything—
is, perhaps, not inconsiderable. It accelerates notably
whet I have long looked upon as invevitable : —pushes
us at 0000 into the Niagara rapids; irresistibly pro-
pelled, with over Increasing velocity, we shall now
arrive ; who knowe how ' Noon !" The meaning of this
Is that the result of reform will be anarchy.—Mar-
Millen'S Moputiee for August.
PARISH LADINX.-1 often pity clergymen for the ex-
istence of female parishioners. Rioept for a short and
perhaps happy time, there have always been females in
the world, and as long se England is divided into
parishes there must be parishioners. The feet, there-
fore, of there being female parishioners does not furnish
• muse for either complaint or legislation, but it does
for pity. And very sincere is the piV I have often felt
for clergymen on that amount. The necessity of an
evil does not diminish the evil, but rather increases the
sufferings to which that evil gives rise. The hopeless
feelings of • clergyman when 'ldeating on his female
must be far more painful than they would
Latirherenen was any rational expectation of the ultimate
abolishment of that dam ; though, of coarse, • sensible
man makes up his mind to endure what must be en-
dured, and the phrase "grin and beer it" was perhaps
Skit invented for a much-put-upon parson. A few
active, fluent, healthy, middle-aged females (especially
usil.monaing) are enough to worry any young clergy -
of rather weakly oonstitutioa Into an early pave.
mansurd. a man, when first performing service in the
ducu he has been appointed, is justified in
casting anxious gloom° at the bonneted head, among
his end rejoining if he secs signs of weak.
oltintion in the fame under these bonnets.
• firm female • " aPPallinj theughti
seek reality that I really shad er when
thinkati what palisade iorsakia despitem hay* from
time to time been made to *adore VT such. I ham
neither space nor none at present to wnteabout district
Wise, sod perhaps It is a latb}ott Wier avoided. Thera

are thinp (like drops of water) that do not bear exam'.
nation, and few young men might be found with
sufficient courage to enter holy orders if they knew all,
or one-half all. about district ladies that could be Cold
but even stopping far short of a district lady, an
ordinary female parishioner may be very tryingimli
beard of one lady, I have seen her, and the first t
she did to a new rector was to borrow "Tract 90" o
him; and I knew another so devoted le the Reforma-
tion, the whole Reformation. and nothing but the
Reformation, that she took the Thirty-Nine Articles
into her bed-room every night, as the mistresses of
small establishment& take the plate-basket. These two
ladies lived next door to each other. The rector was,
of coon., obliged to visit both. They quarrelled some-
times, and appealed to him as umpire. At other thins
they talked to him. He is now in Madeira, wearing a
respirator, and taking cod-liver oil—a case of galloping
consumption, brought on by exhaustion. There are
also clergymen in mad.housea.-- The Churchman's Shill-
sec for August.

Bor.Lovr.- There has been • great deal said about
boy love and its stupidity, but there is something to be
said in it. favour. When • gentleman "get. on" in
Id e, when his head—se the humorous Americans have
It " begins to grow through his hair," then, like Mr.
Thackeray did, he may try to represent poor young
Pendennie raving about the Fothenngey, and making •
fool of himself. But when Mr. Arthur Pendennis, dis-
creetly married to the woman who loved him, and
whom he did mod love, sweet up in life writing for the
Pail Mall Gazette (Thaokeray'e original Pall Mall
Gazette, not the eopy), he met the Fo y married
to an old setyr.hle nobleman—a my Lord Pao, who had
discreetly covered his goatdega with trousers, and who
had • star on his breast and • leer in his eye. Who
were the fools then? Pen we. one, for all his brilliantly-
spiteful reviews, so calculated to show his own clever-
▪ ; the Fortheringay, with her cold, sad look- my
Lord Pan, with his piercing glance; and even Mrs.
Pendennis, who had half of her husband; very sal
fools these. The terrible calamity that might have
followed on the awful arisalllaare of an apothecary's son
with • clever wires', the daughter of an Irish adven-
turer, seems to me to be lit* to the after exhibition of
that terrihle cold piewe of folly of which every one
there had been guilty. And don't we see it every day?
Messrs. Ay and Bee are capital fellows, who were as
gay es birds when bachelors, but not such fools, you
ow, as to marry in haste and repent at leisure;
Mesow their wild oets and make a fortune
se arise men of the Rest, Messrs. Ay and Bee,
lived in Russell-square, and going down to the city
every day, reversed the proverb—they repented at
leisure first, end married in haste afterwards; and
when you are on a polite visit, how terribly coldly the
message strikes you. Have you ever made • morning
call just after the husband and wife have been haying
what is satirically known as • " joUy row r Well,
Mews. Ay and Messrs. Bee appear always to have bees
just having that at home. No warmth, no cordiality,
no loving look between husband and wife; none of that
charming, teasing, insolent fondness notes but
always visible in a young married couple who have
fallen in love wisely. As for boys, I think that they
know best how to manage their own lovea. Young
men are much more critical than ;some think: up to
about seventeen they are determined, like John Knox,
to protest against the "monstrous rment of women."
It is only after they have been in love that they excuse
the faults and follies of the whole sex (except those of
their own sisters) for the sake of the dearly-loved one.
—From T'ke Broadway, • capital first number of •
sixpenny magazine.

Ax 0110111IAL MODII Or OATHIMING have
lnmrdessa• pear tree, the fruit of which though
Is of a remarkably reset and delicate flavour.
As the crop ripened last 'rummer, I looked for the usual
quantity of windfalls; but, strange to say, spite of an
abundant produce, and rather high winds, scarcely a
pear rewarded my daily search. of course suspected
that some thieving neighbour anticipated me, and I
determined to bring my friend to account. With this
object in view, I one morning bid myself behind the
hedge which skirta the orchard. There was a west wind
blowing, and I amused myself with watching the
luscious little pears as they dropped from the boughs
and fell with a "thud" on the soft earth below. An
hour pared away, and to wonder whether the
thief would make his appearance after all, when my
attention was called to a hedgehog, which crawled out
of the hedge on the opposite side of the orchard, and
trotted towards the pear tree with its usual shuffling
gait. I remained perfectly still, with my eye upon the
little animal, more for the sake of amusement, than
with any ides of the important part it was about to
play in the robbery of my pears. I thee became witness
of the following curious scene. After snuffing among
the fallen fruit for • short time, the hedgehog took up
one in its mouth by the stalk, carried it • few yards, and
then laid it down; it then returned, seised another, and
laid it by the first one. This was repeated until no less
than aix teen pears were lying close together, or rather
heaped upon each other. Satisfied, I suppose with the
amount, and conscious that he had ooUset.d itsnitnai
as he could conveniently carry at on. trip, the .i
spread out its prickles to the widest possible extent,
deliberatly threw itself on the heap of pears. and rolled
from one side to the other, until the whole of the fruit
was transfixed, and then calmly walked off with its
ill-gotten booty to the place from whence it had issued,
where I could plainly see some little ones awaiting her
return, and no doubt anticipating • juicy breakfast. I
made no attempt to disturb the clever little
of ttle thief, grate-
ful to it for ving me the opportunity witnessing
a fact which long been treated as • fable--vie., the
power and ability of the hedgehog to tarry off food on
its back.—R.L. [From The °arks/auks, • weekly
periodical published at Leipzig, 1865.1-11
&saw Goat* for August.

Wy nra Rtroaxele Will Itatutso. - Now, were
the English Reformers right in being so stiff and
unbending on this question of the real ? Was
It a point of such vital importance that they wise
Justified in dying before they would receive it. These
are questions,! suspect, which are very tussling to essay
unrefiecting minds. finch minds, U . fear, can Nee the
whole controversy about the real presence nothing buts
logomarly, or strife of words. But they are questions, I
am bold to say, on which no well-instructed Bible
reader can hentate for a moment in giving his answer.
Such a one will say at once that the Rornish doctrine of
the real presence strikes at the very root of the Gospel,
and is the very citadel and keep of Popery. Men may
not see this at first, built is a point that ought to be
carefully remembered. It throws a clear sad broad
light on the line which the Reformers took, and the
unflinching firmness with which they died. Whatever
men please to think or my, the Romish doctrine of the
teal presence, if pursued to its legitimate consequences,
obscures every leading doctrine of the Gospel, and
damages and interferes with the whole system of
Christ's truth. Grant for a moment that the Lord's
Supper is a sacrifice, and not a sacrament—pent that
every time the words of consecration are used the
natural body and blood of Christ are present on the
Communion-table under the forms of bread and wine—
grant tint every one who eats that consonated bread,
and drinks that consecrated wine, does really eat sad
drink the body and blood of Christ—grant bra moment
these things, and then see what momentous comet
quences result from those premises. You spoil the
blessed doctrine of Christ's finished work when He died
on the cross. A sacrifice that needs to be repeated is
not a perfect and complete thing. You spoil the
priestly office of Christ. If there are priests that can
offer an acceptable sacrifice to God besides Him, the
- Priest is robbed of His glory. You spoil the

great High ...
Scriptural doctrine of the ministry. You
exalt sinful men into the position of mediators between
God and man. You give to the sacramental element.
of bread and wine an honour and veneration that they
were never meant to receive, and produce an idolatry to
be abhorred of faithful Christians. Lest, but not least,
you overthrow the true doctrine of 's human
nature. If the body born of the Virgin Mary can be
In more places; than one at the Mine time, it was not a
body like our own, and Jesus was not the Second Adam
In the truth of our nature. Let this fact be deeply
graven in our minds. Wherever the English language
Is woken on the face of the globe, this tact ouglngttnoT
clearly understood by every Englishman who reeds
history. Rather than admit the doctine of the real
presence of Christ's body and blood under the forms of
bread and wine, the Reformers of the Church of England
were content to he burned. —Ow Oars Anstalt: for
August.