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London, England, 1866-06-13 00:00:00

Catholic
Children The Educaticonodfretn of hePoor Roman
London.

PASTORAL FROM THE REV. DR. MANNING.
The following is a full report of the Pastoral of
Dr. Manning, Archbishop of Westminster, a sum-
mary of which appeared in our impression of Mon-
day last :
Henry Edward, by the Grace of God and tho Favour of the
Apostolic See, Archbishop of Westminster, to the Clergy,
Secular and Regular, and the Faithful of the said

Diocese. •
Health and Benediction in the Lord.—Reverend and
dear Brethren, and dear Children in Jesus Christy—The
life of Jesus upon earth was so darkened by sorrows
that we read of only one transitory manifestation of
His glory. In the mountain of the Transfiguration,
when His raiment became white as the snow, and
His countenance as the Sun in its strength, He
revealed for a moment the Vision of Bliss which lay al-
ways under the cloud. Moses and Elias came and spoke
with Him. But still it would seem that the Divine will
was inexorable ; and that even this transient consolation
must needs be penetrated with the bitterness of his Pas-
sion. The Man of Sorrows was not to taste unmingled
joy till He should taste it new with His Disciples in His
Father's Kingdom. Moses and Elias conversed with Him
of his death on Calvary, "of His decease which he should
accomplish in JerUsalem," that-is, of the exodus of His
Deified Soul through the valley of the shadow of death,
and of the redemption of His people from the house of
their bondage through the Sea of His most precious Blood.
We should perhaps have looked at such a time, that the
songs of the heavenly hosts would have flooded the upper
air, or that twelve legions of angels should have encom-
passed the mountain of Transfiguration, which had become
the Throne of the Incarnate God. But God's thoughts are not
our thoughts, and those words of sorrow and of passion which
seem to us to strike a discord in the Divine splendour of
Tabor, are in perfect harmony with the wisdom and glory
of our Redeemer.
And this, it may be, is the reason why the Church in this
most sweet and beautiful festival of the Sacred Heart fills
our minds not with the present glories and joys of our
Divine Lord, but with His humiliation and passion in
Jerusalem, and with the consciousness of the wounds and
ingratitudes which we have inflicted upon Him, or, if we
may so speak, of His divine and imperturbable bliss, which
we inflict upon him day by day.
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The Church leads us frott the Nativity to Corpus
Christi through a land of Divine visions in which faith
perceives by the gifts of understanding and of wisdom, and
by the Divine lights in which:God and His truth are seen
and tasted, the whole work of the Incarnation, from the
Divine Infancy to the revelation of Jesus as the Son of
God by His resurrection and ascension. The Sorrows of
the Sacred Heart pass away in the majesty and the sweet-
ness of the great forty days. The Humanity of Jesus
was transfigured not to the eyes, but to the hearts
of His disciples by the consciousness of His Godhead.
Though Mary for a moment mistook Him for the
gardener, she thenceforward recognised His Divine
power. Thomas had no need to touch the print of the
nailk when the light of His presence revealed Him as His
Lord and his God. We do not road that even the beloved
Disciple lay again upon the Sacred Heart, after that the
resurrection had manifested His glory. The thoughts of
His disciples were purified from earthly imaginations as the
light of the Incarnate Word filled their hearts with the
consciousnessthat Jesus was the Eternal Son of the Father.
They knew that His loving and sorrowing Heart loved
them still•as before, but sorrowed no longer ; that Christ
being raised from the dead could 'die no more, because
"death had no more dominion over Him," and with the
dominion of death all its clouds had departed. There were
no tears or wounds on the Sacred countenance, no pertur-
bation in the Divine stillness of the Sacred Heart. So they
.conversed with Him in the 40 days, and His ascension in-
vested him with His glory, and the descent of the Holy
Ghost illuminated their hearts to gaze upon the Heavenly
Court, and to see Jesus at the right hand of God. Such
is our vision as wo look upward on Trinity Sunday. We
behold by faith the untreated majesty of the Father, Son,
and Holy Ghost ; the Father made of none, neither created,
nor begotten, nor proceeding; fife Son of the Father alone,
neither created nor proceeding, but begotten ; the Holy
Ghost of the Father and of the Son, neither created nor
begotten, but proceeding ; three Persons, co-equal, co-
eternal, distinct, but indivisible, of ono power, majesty, and
glory ; and in the midst of this surpassing and inaccessible
Light, the Sacred Humanity, the Sun of .1 ustice traces its
visible outline of Divine splendour. Thus in the Throne
of God the Sacred Heart is for ever glorified ; and we can
find neither thoughts which will not fail, nor words which
cannot falter in ascribing all honour, praise, and bliss to
the Heart of Jesus, save only the words of the Church at
the Altar: " Thou only art holy, Thou only art the Lord,
Thou only art most high, 0 Jesus Christ, with the Holy
Ghost, in the glory of God the Father."
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It is with its exquisite tact of supernatural wisdom that,
immediately after Trinity Sunday, the Church begins to
adereJesus in the Sacrament of the Altar. He is on high, but
He is still whir us. Ile is gone to the Father, but Ho
has not left us orphans. He has come to us. He has, by
His divine power, instituted a way of presence which, like
the Incarnation from which it springs, is above the first
creation, and out of the order of nature. S. Thomas teaches
that God is present with all His works in three ways, by
essence, presence, and power. S. Peter Damain adds a
fourth, by identity of nature,—that is, by incarnation.
The Holy Eucharist superadds a fifth : by the Real Pre-
sone() of His Person, Godhead, and Manhood, under the
veil of the Sacred Species. By this He is always with us.
By this He will remain always, unto the end of the world.
The succession of His Priesthood cannot be broken ; the
perpetuity of the Blessed Sacrament will never cease.
Throughout the world, the visible Church is the sanctuary
and the canopy of the Word made Flesh dwelling person-
ally in the midst of us ; the same Jesus, God and Man in the
glory of the Divine presence, full of grace and truth. The
Sacred heart abides ever in the Tabernacle as in the guest
chamber in Jerusalem, and our first approach to it is full
of awe and love and veneration, as to Jesus risen and
glorified, impassible and calm in the bliss of His Divine
nature. Our first conception of the Sacred Heart in the
Blessed Sacrament is the same as when we contemplate it
in the glory of the ever-blessed Trinity, crowned with many
diadems, and girt about with the cincture of its twelve in-
communicable glories ; 1. It is the purest work of the
Divine Omnipotence; 2. Animated by the most perfect
human soul ; 8. it is the Heart of God ; 4. The highest
kingdom of the Father; 5. The chosen shrine of the Son;
6.The special sanctuary of the Holy Ghost ; 7.The fountain
of infinite merits ; 8. The instrument of Divine Grace to
men ; 9. The living and life-giving heart of the Church ;
10. The throne of the Holy Trinity ; 11. The access of sin-
ners to the Father ; 12. The friend of all human hearts.
These twelve prerogatives encircle it and glorify it with
an unapproachable glory and an ineffable tenderness. But
in this vision of the Sacred Heart all is peace, beauty,
sweetness, consolation.

Why then does the Church, like Moses and Elias on Tabor,
mingle the Holy Mass of this Festival with such words as
—" 0 all ye that pass by, look and see, if there be sorrow
like unto my sorrow ?" and why, in the Gospel should it
lead us back again to the cross on Calvary, and to the hour
when the Blessed Mother of God saw the side of Jesus
pierced by the lance? and why, in the communion does it
speak as with the voice of Jesus in the three hours of His
agony : "My heart hath expected reproach and misery.
And I looked for one that would grieve together with me,
but there was none; and for one that would comfort me,
and I found none ?" It is as if the Sacred Heart were once
"more on Calvary and Gethsemani. The reason would
seem to be twofold. First, in the Holy Mass Jesus is
mystically immolated, and by reason of our sins the
Sacred Heart endures still a mystical passion. We con-
template him still as wounded and crowned with thorns
for us: as grieving over our infidelities, and upbraiding
our ingratitudes ; as the Good Shepherd who laid down
His life for those who wander from Him, as the Friend
who is daily and perpetually wounded in the house of those
who profess to love Him. Though He be divinely im-
passible, yet our sins, slights, coldness, ingratitude, in-
fidelity move Him as an all-just and all-loving friend
would be moved towards those who betray him.
The'agony of the Sacred Heart in Gethsemani had three
great depths : the first the sin of the world, the second the
waste of grace, the third the foreseen loss of souls re-
deemed in His most precious Blood. This is one cause ;
the other•also is very deep and real. Though our sins do
not now indeed cloud the bliss of the Sacred Heart, there
was a time when they hid the face of the Father from Him,
and wrung from Him a bloody sweat.. In the darkness of
Calvary, and under the shadow of the olives in Gethse-
mani, our sins were visibly and sensibly, present to the
Sacred Heart. The sin of the world crushed Him with
His face upon the ground; but the sin of the world in-
cludes all the sins of men, of each one in particular, in
every time, before the incarnation and since ; the sins of
thought, word, and deed ; against the light and law of
nature; against the whispers and the warnings of con-
science; against the light of faith, the Spirit of Grace, the
Holy Sacraments, the Holy Ghost who inhabits us;
against the Sacred Heart itself, which, by suffering for
each one of our sins, distinctly and explicitly made expia-
tion for all. It is most precisely true to say that our sins
in kind, number, and circumstance, weighed upon
the Heart of Jesus in Gethsemani, each ono with its seve-
ral and distinct gravity. We have each one personally
wounded and struck Him as truly as they who put the
crown upon His head or smote Him on the mouth. They
knew not what they did. They did not know that He was
God, or that He would die for them. We do know all this.
From our childhood we have known Him as God, and yet
we have smitten Rim. We have known that Re has re.

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deemed us, and yet we have wounded His Sacred Heart
afresh.
And further, in the hour of His agony, the Sacred Heart
had also before its Divine vision the waste of spiritual
grace which, from the beginning of the world, and over
the face of the earth, has fallen like the rain from heaven
upon the just and upon the unjust. But most especially
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And finally, souls born of baptised parent; but robbed of
baptism by their neglect
inheritance by the sins o;f
fathers baptised, but robbed of their
cruelty of oppressors, or by the apathy of Christiana and of mothers, by the
The multitudes who, by schisms and by heresies, should be
torn away from Him and make His Sacred Heart to bleed;
whole races who shall be born into the darkness and
coldness of lands, once full of life in the unity and light
of His Church ; the havoc of souls who should thereby
sink, generation after generation, further and further from
the supernatural life of God to the life of flesh nA'l3:
of sensuality gross or refined; all this wrung from film
His prayer of agony. But there were still more bitter lees
in the chalice. He foresaw the pride, envies, jealousies,
hatreds, aversions, suspicions, rivalries, contentions, evil
tongues, murmuring; heart-burn ings by which even His
own disciples should afflict each other, wound His Church,
scandalise the world, and destroy souls. All our sins
against peace, goodwill, charity, mutual humility, mutual
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tenderness, gave sadness of tone to the voice in which
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said : What, could not you watch with me one hour?"
As if He would say : " The world knows me not, my own
people crucify me, and my disciples forsake me. To whom
shall I go ?"
Such, dear Children in Jesus Christ, are the words He
is always saying to us. He looks to us to make Him a
reparation for our own sins, and for the sins of others. But
if, when He comes among us, He find us not only sleeping
but drowned in the world ; worshipping and wondering
after its power and its allurements ; selfish and self-pleas-
ing; narrow-hearted to His Church, but profuse to our
worldly friends and to our ourselves ; lax in principles and
opinion; which, though not of faith, border on it, exact
and exacting in the etiquettes and fashions of society and
of public opinion ; keen and ardent in every labour of the
world, cold and heartless in the midst of souls that are
perishing, how shall we escape the most just doom of the
Church of Laodicea ? " Tbeso things saith the Amen, the
faithful and true witness, who is the beginning of the
creation of God ; I ]mow thy works, that thou art neither
cold nor hot : I would thou wert cold or hot. But because
thou art lukewarm, and neither Cold nor hot, I will begin
to vomit thee out of my mouth."
And now, that we may bring your thoughts to the work
which pleads for your alms to-day. It has been well said,
that the little children in Jerusalem cried Hosanna, but
when the multitude cried Crucify, their voices were silent,
as birds cease their song when storms rave. Jesus had
taken them as His own. His first army of martyrs was
picked from their ranks, and when the scythe swept off
"the King's mowing" and the first flowers of the field in
Rama, the first palms of victory were lifted up before
the Infant King of Martyrs. They were the special love
of the Sacred Heart. And in His agony, the foresight of
those who shall go into the pit was most terrible in the
vision of thousands, and tens of thousands, of regenerate
children who, through sinful negligence or apathy on our
part, shall grow up without Christian education, and shall
state which is worse than the first.
so fall from the grace of their Baptism, and die in the lasi

The multitudes of men of every rank and state, rich and
poor, kings and people, pastors and flock, who thronged
about Him in that hour of Divine Vision, walking hand in
hand to perdition, mocking Him as they passed, or dis-
daining to know him, wrung from Him the drops of His
life-blood before His sacred wounds were made. But there
was a keener, sharper, agonising grief to the tenderest of
, all lleart3—the havoc made in the soling sonic of children,
fresh from the waters of life, by the stains of mortal sin,
and by the subtilty of false teachers. God alone knows the
mystery of Divine Sorrow as, one by one, such little souls
aro snared and murdered. A day ago they were in the
state of grace, and the light of the Holy Ghost was with
them. Their angel guardians were about them, and the
face of their Father who is in Heaven shone upon them
without a cloud. Fallen into mortal sin, or robbed of the
light of faith, they are not only outcast, but at enmity with
God, and their recovery is a miracle of grace.
But we must turn to the work which is before us. It is
to keep them from falling, and to raise them from their fall,
that you are asked to give your alms to-day. It is to train
such children in the purity and sanctity of the Holy
Catholic Faith, to protect them against the seduction and
the robbery by which they may be stripped of their in-
heritance, that the Poor School Committee labours. We
desire to commend it heartily to your generosity, and
above all, because it has an office of general good for the
whole Church in England which no Diocese can under-
take for itself. It maintains, very prudently, the Train-
ing Schools for Masters and Mistresses, on whose efficacy
as teachers, and on whose good example as Christians, the
education of our poor children must in chief depend.

The importance of the Poor School Committee is such
as to require more than a passing notice. It was founded
in 1847 as an organ of communication in behalf of the
Catholic Bishops with her Majesty's Government. It con-
ducted its correspondence with the Committee of Privy
Council with great prudence and success ; and the agree-
ments made by it at that day continue as the basis of our
relations with the Privy Council until now. The consti-
tution of the Poor School Committee is that of a Council
composed of 45 members, one. third ecclesiastical and two-
thirds lay persons, nominated by each of the 13 Catholic
Bishops of England, and by two Vicars Apostolic of Scot-
land. It represents, therefore, the whole of the Church
in Great Britain. Every year, at the same time with the
annual assembling of the bishops in London, it holds its
general meeting. Priests and laymen from all parts of
England have then an opportunity of conferring on the
state of Catholic education. If it had no other office
than this—namely, to form a centre in which the 13
dioceses meet—a great value would attach to it. As
the subject of education becomes more and more appre-
ciated in its bearings upon the social and spiritual
welfare of our people, such a body will become of still
greater usefulness.
In all common undertakings, common counsel is of great
moment. The friends and managers of Reformatory
Schools have wisely united themselves in a general alliance
of correspondence and co-operation, with the purpose of
meeting annually, as for this year they did last week in
London. It is evident that in this way the importance of
the Poor School Committee must always be permanent and
universal to the whole Church in England and Scotland.
It is obvious also that institutions for training masters
and mistresses are of utility to the whole of England, and
are very costly. No diocese would alone need or could
alone support them. The burden of their maintenance
is therefore as widely distributed as their benefit—that
is, over the whole Church in England and Scotland; and
the Poor School Committee with great prudence has
assumed the maintenance of them. This, next after its
office as representative of the Catholic Church in relation
to the Committee of Privy Council, is manifestly its
highest function. Whatsoever is general to the dioceses
of England and Scotland it is obviously the work of a cen-
tral body to administer; and as our education system is
extended, a centre will be more and more needed to unite
and consolidate it ; as our Schools are multiplied the num-
ber of teachers must be multiplied ; as their efficiency is
raised, the need of the Training Schools will be always
increasing. The Poor School Committee therefore has the
strongest claims upon every Diocese in Great Britain.
But every diocese has local and particular duties and
works which press with their full weight upon it, and such as
can be discharged by no central body whatsoever. The
multiplication and maintenance of the local and parochial
or Mission Schools must rest upon each mission and each
diocese. The Poor School Committeeassists according to its
power in such local needs ; but obviously it is unable to do
more than give in a proportion hardly appreciable. The dio-
ceses of Liverpool, Salford, and Birmingham have in activity
a wide-spread and vigorous system of education, the
cost of which is borne by themselves. The schools of
the diocese of Westminster aro 148 in number, the
maintenance of which must cost from £15,000 to
.£20,000 a year. The grants to this diocese from the Poor
School Committee, though very liberal in proportion to its
means, amount yearly to about £3OO or £4OO for the build-
ing and support of schools—that is, for the last year about
a fiftieth part of what is actually sp , ent in and b
the diocese for its mission schools. It is manifest, there-
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Poor School Committee and of the clergy of the missions
is too obvious and too well known to need many words.
We will, therefore, briefly state only the three chief
reasons for its prompt formation. First, it may be
safely affirmed that thousands of Catholic children in
London are without education. Two very careful and
guarded calculations have been lately made of the
number who may be said to be practically without
education. One of these estimates them at twelve thousand
and the other at seven thousand. We refrain from giving
our own conjectures, wishing to avoid all semblance of ex-
aggeration, and earnestly hoping that we may be mistaken ;
but if there be 12,000, or even 7,000, or so much as 1,000
Catholic children growing up without Christian and
Catholic education, we ought to do penance unless we
make an effort to save them.
That there are not 1,000 only, but 7,000 at least, may,
we believe, with perfect certainty be affirmed; and if so, it
is a fact sufficiently terrible and appalling to tinge all need-
less self-indulgence with bitterness, and to break our
indolent peace day and night. The ruin and ;the de-
pravity, or the perversion and apostacy, of one bap_
tised child is a sorrow which breaks the heart of
a father or a mother. The loss of one soul, and that
ono of God's little ones, only the other day innocent
and in union with God, makes a wound in the Sacred Heart
of Jesus. How is it that we can eat and drink, lie Blown,
and rise up in unconsciousness and insensibility at the
spiritual death of thousands before our eyes?
If in any one place 1,000 children without education
were seen together, we should be horrified ; but:though
scattered, they exist, and they are destitute as if they were
all congregated in one of our maze of courts. Being dis-
persed, they are hidden by fives and by tens here and there in
our thronging population, and, therefore, escape our eyes:
and because they are not seen some doubt of their existence.
Let us, therefore, lay well to heart that we see but little of
that which, by its very nature, lies withdrawn from the
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There is also a second class of our children for whom
Ave mu 4 provide—namely, those who fall ;...,--der the 0p,A...;;'-
tion of the law for offences, or are committed as friendless
and abandoned. The late Acts for. Reformatory and In-
dustrial Schools enable us to provide for them with greater
facility; the cost of their maintenance being drawn from
the Consolidated Fand, the cost of management is compa-
ratively easyto bear. But so many are our poor children of
this class, and so great is our poverty, that we are not able
to keep pace with the need, and many of them have been
sent to, and aro at this time detained in, Protestant institu-
tions.

But, lastly, there is a class of our poor children of
which we hardly know how to speak. It is believed that
more than 1,000 of our Catholic children are detained in the
workhouses and workhouse schools of London. They are draughted for health and for convenience of
management
from the workhorse in London to the workhouse schools in
the country. Within the walls of those schools, the edu-
cation is exclusively Protestant —books, catechisms,
prayers, teachers, worship. And yet every Catholic child
has a right bestowed on him by God Himself to Catholic
education. In baptism they acquired a personal right to be
trained in the whole and perfect faith of Jesus Christ, and
under the pastors of His Church. To deprive them of it is
a fraud against God. To educate them as Protestants is to
deprive them of it. And they are being educated as Pro-
testants as absolutely and as exclusively as children of the
Protestant poor. It is no answer to say that they would not
bo there if their parents did not consent. Their parents
do not consent. Every Catholic father and mother, unless
they be sordid, and sell their souls, object with all their
heart and strength to the perversion of their child. Hun-
ger, and thirst, and nakedness drive them to the work-
house, and their helplessness may give way under the
temptations of meat, and drink, and warmth, for which their
children cry around them. They hope to keep their chil-
dren from starvation, in the trust that God will
keep them from perversion. There is no consent in
this, nor in the apathy of a man who is faint with
hunger in the midst of hungry children. To take ad-
vantage of such a man is cruelty; to tempt him to wrong
his own children is indignity added to cruelty. It is to use
him as the instrument to rob his children of the light
which God has given them as their own. Neither father
nor mother has authority to do this. They have no power
to disinherit the children of God—yet year by year this
cruel and sinful robbery of our poor little ones is per-
petrated. Plead for it who may, and argue for it what they
may, the fact stands before God without a shade to soften
its enormity. A thousand Catholic children, detained by
hunger and practical mal-administration of the law, are
defrauded of their education in the faith, and are educated
in doctrines contrary to their faith.
Time compels us to pass over allother topics. The agony
and bitterness of Catholic fathers and mothers, who had
rather see their children in a parish coffin than in a Poor
Law school; the anguish of father and mother in the hour of
death, when the light of faith is keenest and the love of
their offspring is most vivid, as their eyes are closing upon
all save the terrific vision of their sons and their daughters,
robbed of the grace which at that hour is their only strength
in the last agony—all this, and much beside, we must pass
over now. We shall ask you hereafter to help us by your
prayers to open the doors of these houses of bondage, and by
your alms to enable us to receive these poor children into
schools of our own. But this must be for the future.
For the present we ask you to give of your alms for the
Poor School Committee as abundantly as you are able. Its
works are vital to us. Our works fill up what the P r
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good Teachers. God's works do not exhaust each other ;
when the sea rises, all the rivers rise with it.
And now, dear children in Jesus Christ, few words need
to be added. The gaze of our Divine Lord is upon us, and
the Sacred Heart, with the delicacy of its divine sensitive-
ness, notes all we do. He is looking down upon these poor
little ones, and saying, "If these perish, what profit is
there in my blood ?" Is there any sorrow like unto My
sorrow, if you ctnnot deny yourselves for their sakes and
for Mine. Beckon up what you spend upon yourselves,
upon your houses and costly ornaments, upon your feasting
and profusion of luxury, upon your jewels and bauble;
upon your softness, refinement, self-indulgence in clothing
and apparel, upon the pleasures of the senses, the excite-
ment of an hour, the caprice of imagination, on nothings,
each of which cost the maintenance of an orphan, upon
waste and squandering which would save families from
perversion. We have no will either to be, or to make you
scrupulous, but a great desire to make the thought of God
and His poor, and of the souls for whom the Most Precious
Blood was shed, penetrate and spread through all our ac-
tions and all our enjoyments. It will not embitter or darken
them, but give them a new quality of conscious fidelity,
and thankfulness for your abundance. Make it your daily
intention and prayer to console the Sacred Heart of Jesus
in this perishing world by saving some soul poorer and
more in peril than your own, and to return to Him, for the
great love with which He loves you still, the love of souls
for whom He died.
In order to obtain what we need for the salvation of the
souls of our poor children, we exhort you to earnest prayer
with this intention; and the more effectually to promote it,
we hereby give permission for the Exposition of the
Blessed Sacrament on Fridays of June and July, in honour
of the Sacred Heart and of the Most Precious Blood; or
for Benediction when Exposition is not possible, with the
same intention.

May the Spirit of the Father and of the Son, Who is
also the Love of the Father and of the Son, abide in you,
dear brethren and children in Jesus Christ, and make you
perfect in charity, and fill you with good all works. Amen.
Given at Westminster this sixth day of June, 1866, and
ordered.to be read in all Churches and Chapels of the
Diocese on the Third Sunday after Pentecost, when a col-
lection will be made in aid of the Funds of the Poor School
Committee.
HENRY EDWARD,
Archbishop of Westminster.
JOHN CANON Moult's, Secretary.

WHAT A SPIDER EATS PER
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test what a spider could do in the way of eatine
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rolled l wased u pn now
"firsnit.
thediscoveredfromaroseretreat,earwigcaught,earwig,demolished,onceafterdowngreedily earwig had been
ter nine we supplied him
no worse for his previousseizd'
was eaten by noon. At one
had finished by 9 a.m. A little
indulgence,
gietnhcenn,
apparently
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menced on the blow-fly. During the day and towards
great ma
proper]termed many small green flies, or what are
y midges, had been caught in' the web; of
these we counted 120, all dead, and fast prisoners in the
spider's net. Soon after dark, provided with it lantern,
we went toexamine whether the spider was suffering at all
from indigestion, or in any other way from his previous
meals; instead, however, of being thus affected, he was
employed in rolling up together the various little green
midges, which he th.n took to his retreat and ate. This
lots in little process he repeated, carrying up the. .
detach-
ments, until the whole web was eaten, for the web and
its contents were bundled up together. in slight rest of
about an hour was followed by the most
stindustrious web-
making process, and before daybreak
_ another web was
i
ready to be usedn
the same way. Taking the relative.
the creatures it ate, and a '
size of the spider and of pplymg
ld be somewhat as follows •—At day-
this to an, it wou
ten •at 7 • a m a lamb; at 9
break a small alligator was ea , . .
meleopard ; at one o'clock a sheep ; and
a.m. a young. e!t
lit 190 larks. This, we believe, would be a
during
.the mg -
for one man during twenty-four hours,
very fair allowance
d one gifted with such an appetite and
and could we fin
n readily comprehend how he might
such digestion, c.a
es f eweb without killing himself, provided he
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machinery.—Chamberie Journal.
possessed the incessoxy