The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-11-02 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1852.

VARIETIES.

associates—imagine the difficulty which the noble Duke,
accustomed to recognise duty, honour, loyalty, as govern- _ _
___
____
ing principles, would experience in understanding the, to RAILWAY MOTTO.—him, novel doctrines of self-interest, of the necessity of
_Punch.
sacrificing all considerations to the interests of trade, and
of renunciation of the claims of national honour ! Ham THE FOLLOWING WORDS if spelt backwards or for-
obtuse would he have been to the clinching argument of wards are the same, " Name no one man."
balance of profit and loss, so complacently indicated with THERE is a fellow in California so extravagant that he
unanswerable forefinger !—how slow to appreciate the kindles the fire with bank-notes, and skates on ice-cream.
vast boon co,iferred on the human race in the diffusion of ~
THE ONLY POCKET (says a sour philosopher) that
printed cottons I—how utterly incredulous that there really opens and melts over a man's bier is a pocket of
could be a class of educated men in England quite indif- hops 1"
ferent as to whether they lived under an English heredi- '
tary sovereign o a French ,FO that they might, A BURST OF TALENT !—A Yankee, being asked to
unmolested, pursue their belovedemperor traffic I—with what di& describe his wife, said, " Why, sir, she'd make a regular
ficulty receiving the idea that, to watch over the natio.' fast, go-a-heed steamer, my wife would—she has such

..00ms ---, .
Alpha and Omega of statesmanship ! And,
wonderful talent for blowing up."—Punch.
were slowly admitted, what a severe and MACHINERY has reached a great state of perfection,
righteous contempt would wither their advocate ! But We saw some burnt peas put into the hopper of a coffee-
no—we do this Mr. Cobden wrong. In that venerable mill the other day, and in less than two minutes it was
presence the audacious free trader would have felt occupying a place in a grocery window, labelled " Fine
strangely ahr,shed. A new and generous sentiment would old Mocha."
for a moment Lave been reflected into his breast, and the A COUNTRY Gum, coming in from the fields, was told
novel spectacle might have been witnessed, of the unscru- by her cousin that she looked as fresh as a daisy kissed
pulous agitator and clap-trap orator proclaiming, with with dew. " Well, it wasn't any fellow of that name, but
unwilling tongue, a momentary allegiance to a policy nei- Bill Jones, that kissed me ; and, confound his picture, I
ther contemptible nor debasing." I told him every body would find him out."

when these ideas

A REV. DEAN, economical of his wine, descanting on
the extraordinary performance of a blind man, remarked
that the poor fel!ow " could see no more than that bottle."
—" No wonder, sir," replied a minor canon, ; " for we
have seen no more than that bottle all the afternoon."
AT A CAMP MEETING, held at Bethel. Me., it was
noticed that some " New Testaments" which were
hawked about near the camp ground, sold rapidly,
especially to the unconverted ; and it turned out that they
were " earthen vessels," in the form of books, filled with
clearly liquor.
- - •

The concluding paper is one of those matchless po-
litical essays for which Blackwood's Magazine has
long been celebrated. It is entitled " The Holi-
days," and is devoted to a consideration of present
political affairs, arising out of the accession of the
present Ministry, the discomfiture of the Whigs,
and the break-up of the Liberal party. We have
only space to give the following brief extracts :

A GENERAL ELECTION
" To keep out of the turmoil of an election i.,
impossible. You may be a philosopher, but you are also
a Briton ; and although you were as deadened t

ONE LITTLE " GARDEN PATCH" of ours has been very
profitable, very—this season. The bugs ate up the cu-
cumbers, the chickens ate up the bugs, the neighbours'
cats ate the chickens, and we are now in search of some-
thing that will eat the cats. Can any of our agr!cultural
friends aid us ?

nmanity

as was Tiwon of At

lave some

CAUTION.—" Waiter, I'll take my bat," said a gentle-
man at a party one evening, as he was about going bottle
—What kind of a bat did you wear ?"—" A new hat
that I paid a guinea for this morning."—" Well, sir,'
said the waiter,

d hats have b

PORSON observing that he could pun on any subject, a
person present defied him to do so on the Latin gerund,
which, however, he immediately did in

the follow in

rable couplet—_

" When Dido found /Eneas would not come,
She mourned in silence, and was Di DO-DUM."

SERIOUS Loss. Some years ago a gentleman in
Liverpool who had the misfortune to lose his nose, was
followed by an Irish beggar-woman, who kept exclaiming,
" Heaven preserve your honour's eyesight !" The gentle-
man was at last irritated by her importunity, and said,
" Why do you wish my eyesight to be preserved ? nothing
ails my eyesight, nor is likely to do so."—" No, your
honour," said the Irishwoman, "but it will be a sad
thing if it does, for you will have nothing to rest your
spectacles upon 1"
ORlGlNOFBLEEDlNG.—Thebypoppotamus,accoraing to
Pliny, first taught man the use of bleeding. He states
that. the animal, being overcharged with blood, rubs him-
self against a pointed bulrush ; a vein is opened, and
when a sufficient quantity of blood has been discharged,
he rolls himself in the mire to stop the bleeding. The art
is, however, very ancient, and appears to have been re-
sorted to among the Egyptians, Assyrians, Scythians, &c.,
at a time when anatomy had never been cultivated. The
Greeks boast that Podalicius, the son of Esculapius, soon
after the siege of Troy, was the first who inculcated the
expediency of bleeding.

A WIFE'S PRAYBA.—We do not assume that we re.
cognise that which is truly beautiful in all that makes
humanity approach to the Divine ; but if there is anything
that comes nearer to the imploration of Ruth to Naomi
than the subjoined, we have not seen it :—" Bless and
preserve that dear person whom thou hast chosen to be
my husband : let his life be long and blessed, comfortable
and holy : and let me also become a great blessing and
comfort unto him, a sharer in all his joys, a refreshment
in all his sorrows, a meet helper for him in all the ac-
cidents and changes in the world : make me amiable for
ever in his eyes, and for ever dear to him. Unite his
heart to me in the dearest love and holiness, and mine to
him in all sweetness, charity, and compliance. Keep me
from all ungentleness, all discontentedness, and un-
reasonableness, of passion and humour; and make me
bumble and obedient, useful and observant, that we may
delight in each other according to Thy blessed word, and
both of us may rejoice in Thee, having our portio❑ in the
love and service of God for ever."—Home Companion.

LIVELY GRAVlTY.—Alexander Dumas writes On
the 9th of June I read in one of the Legitimist papers, that
I had been taken with arms in my hands, tried by court-
martial during the night, and shot next morning at three
o'clock. The paragraph had such an official look about
it, and the recital of my execution (which indeed, 1 had
borne with exemplary courage) was given with such de-
tailed minuteness, that for a moment I almost doubted
my own existence. Besides, the editor spoke kindly of
me, for the first time in his life. It was evident, therefore,
he sincerely believed that I was dead. I threw off the
quilt, leaped from the bed, and ran to the glass to ascer-
tain the fact. At the same instant my door opened, and
a letter from Charles Nodier was handed me, which
ran as follows :---` Dear Alexander,—l have just read in
one of the papers that you were shot this morning at
three o'clock. Pray send me word if that will hinder you
from corning to dine with me to-morrow.' I answered
that as to my being dead or alive I had not quite made up

punctually as the statue of the Commandant with Don
Juan. Next day it was unanimously agree] that I was
not dead."

LANDSCAPE GARDENING.—" God Almighty
planted a garden ; and, indeed, it is the purest of
pleasure's ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spi

man ; without which buildings and palaces are but gross
handy works; and a man shall ever see that when ages
grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately,
sooner than garden finely ; as if gardening was the greater
perfection." So wrote the great Lord Chancellor, who,
while giving to the world the Novtan Organena, could
dally with a double violet, and lay down rules for the right
ordering of flower-beds. To " garden finely" is still a
difficulty ; we mean, of course, gardening in the large ;
the disposition and laying oat of grounds,—landscape-
gardening, as it is sometimes termed,—and those who
have sought to teach it by books have not done much in
furtherance of the object. The Study of Burke, and Gil-
pin, and Payne Knight, and Price, and Whately, and
Loudon is very useful, absolutely necessary, indeed, but
will scarcely serve to teach what Beauty is, still less how
to produce it. " Ideas of beauty," says Gilpin, truly
" vary with the object, and with the eye of the
. Those artificial forms appear generally the
atiful with which we have been the most conver-

enough,

spectator

post be

Thus the stonemason sees beauties in a well-
jointed wall, which escapes the architect, who surveys the
building under a different idea. And thus the painter,
who compares the object with the rules of his art, sees it
in a different light from the man of general taste, who sur-
veys it only as simply beautiful."— The Builder.
BETTER DONE THAN SAID.—Most men can kiss, pro-
bably, but it was reserved for an abstruse writer
New Englander to collect the different
the p

fo-rmers would define it. The Naturalist : A kiss
axtaposition two contrarily charged
The

ringing into

poles, by vs'heh it, like an electric s

Mora : A kiss is the token of the most intimate com-
munion of love, and is therefore only to be permitted in
the married state. The Physician : A kiss is the art of
moving the labial muscles that the lips are first brought
suddenly together and then explosively separated, so that
after all a kies is only an artificial spasm. The Philolo-
gist : Kiss is an onomatopoetic word, in which the curt-
ness of the thing is represented by the brief sound of the
word. The Antiquary : Kissing is a custom handed down
to us from the Greeks and Romans, as to the true significa-
tion of which we are not perfectly clear. Probably it is
symbolical of the sun's rays greeting the earth ; and if so,
doubtless was received with all the other lore of sun-wor-
ship from the Orientals. Theologians (a host of them) :
A kiss is an emblematic action, by which the bending of

the heavens to the earth is destined to be symbolised.
The Philosopher : A kiss is that protruding of the circle
of the lips whereby the quantitative difference of the sine of
one is placed in such relation to the quantitative difference
of the sine of another that thereby the identity of the sub-
.tec•

.tt object with the ideal is proved. The Punster : A kiss
(kuss) is the gush (guss) of one soul- to another. The
pressing of the lips is the pressing of the lemon into the
insipid beverage of life. The pressure is the expression of
the impression which oppresses the heart. It is the only
press with which no censorship can interfere. Here still
we have " freedom of the press." The Lawyer : The kiss
is a nullity in law, being neither a right in posse nor a
right in esse. Some, however, have considered it as a
family right, and would treat it after the analogy of the
dos. But L 74 D de dote constit does not treat of the
kiss at any length. Still, in the married state we may
venture to consider a kiss in the light of donatto inter-
vivos. The Lover : A kiss is—heaven ! Translator : To
be sure—with a difference!

A MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—More than fifty years
have passed since the following narrative was related by
an old gentleman, above seventy years of age, as having
occurred in his youth. Its date may therefore be about
1740. A nobleman, having broken his constitution and
injured his estate by a career of dissipation, determined
to marry and reform ; and having paid his addresses to an
heiress, and been duly accepted, the wedding day was
fixed, and great preparations made for its celebration.
In those times news travelled slowly, and the intelligence
of the courtship only reached the lady's aunt, from whom
she bad large expectations, three or four days before the
bridal-day. She was, however, an energetic woman of
the old school ; she posted to London, and made such
good use of her time that she succeeded in setting the
match aside. But the letter announcing this was only
written, by her niece, late on the preceding night, and
was despatched very early on the purposed wedding-day,
and, being taken to the bridegroom's bedside, was read
by him there. A short time after he told his valet to go
into the servant's-hall, and enquire if any of the women
would be married that morning. The servants, knowing
their lord's generosity and fondness for joking, thought
that he wished to signalize bis own marriage by portioning
another couple. and laughingly declined. The valet re-
turned, and said, " There is nobody that can be married
to-day, my lord, but the country wench that came up
last week, and she says that she has no sweetheart."
" Oh !" he replied, " tell her to put on her Sunday dress,
and come to me in the blue breakfast room." He dressed
in the suit prepared ; they met; and the result of that
interview must be known by its consequences. A mantle
and veil of lace was thrown over the country dress of a
modest, handsome, and lively village girl, and she be-
came, that morning, a peeress of England! Much sen-
sation was caused ; but, in the world of fashion it was
only a nine days' wonder, for the married pair went im-
mediately from London. She possessed an excellent dis-
position and strong good sense. With renewed health
and spirits his lordship's enjoyment of country life in-
creased, his property improved by care, and, above all,
a beautiful progeny surrounded him and their devoted
domestic mother, who affectionately closed his eyes in
peace, receiving his parting blessing, many years after
his happy choice.—. Notes and Queries.

CHIPS FROM THE GERMAN POST.—As specimens of
accurate addresses, we have : " This letter is to be given
" Slow and Sure"—of an accident. to a pot-boy, one Celler, who lives somewhere in
burgh." "To Christian Seigler, in Brunswick, just
where the Box used to stand." "To the late Mrs. Mar-
tensen." "To Pastor Miram, or Miroio, at Binnen. I
cannot exactly recollect the name now, but when the
letter is given to the preacher there, with a wart on his
nose, it will be quite right." "To the umbrella-maker
who deals in fruit during the summer, and is a single man.
Cruersen, near Sondershansen." Wonderful to say, this
letter found the man, ; for it was returned to the Post-
office with the endorsement, " The person addressed re-
fuses the letter. (Signed) Schumann, Letter Carrier."
Could the allusion to his being a single man have come
from some too persevering fair one ? "To Robert Kinn-
lit ze, in Berlin, second story, No. 7 : a water-butt at the
left hand after you get through the court." On the back
of the same letter was written, " If I am not at home my
neighbour will take it in for me, but he removed last
Michaelinc.•s, and there is a new lodger." "To my Brother
in America, to be delivered to his master." "To the late
Cow-dealer his Milkmaid, and she is my sister." "To
Lorenzo, in Klunenthal ; if the Father is dead, to be sent
to the Son in Vochtland :" which is as though a letter in
England were addressed to " Lawrence, in North Wales ;
Fnt hnr is d,.,, In he cent to Tiooerorv."—Tir,nse-

hold Worth

THE EXCHANGE AT HAMBURGH. - The buit
itself is one of moderate antiquity and respectahlP
ante, larger in its internal area, much more col
and somewhat lighter than our more splendi,
structure in the city. It was saved by a miracle from thL
conflagration, not being attacked, like ours, will a fit of
spontaneous combustion ; everything around it was de-
stroyed, but I suppose it was saved by the Lares cr Pe-

ui. appear-

mediou
Tite• a

nates, or Deus Loci of the city, for certainly it is the
temple of the town, where people offer their daily sacrifice.
One could very well have satisfied oneself without seeing
this building ; not so the scene which presented itself. It
was the witching hour of afternoon business : we soon
to one of the tributary streams which were pouring
human tide towards it, and in a moment
drifted into it, and up one of the staircases

leading to a

seemed to add to the density of the crowd, and to the
force of that deep and strange sound, ebbing and flowing
swelling and dying away, which ar
men engaged in earnest conversa
o gone more I stopped in one of the

t of ti

the air,

Thee ar

exit, th

intent, ;meting none by the
way, except sometimes with a very slight glance of recog-
nition,—everything reminds you that von are in a place
where the motto is, business first, and pleasure, if al all,
afterwards ; but I never met with anything there, which
indicated the intensity of the Hamburgh merchant's feel-
ings as he approaches his well-beloved 'Change. The
reason probably is, because he feels he has a great deal
to do in a short time, for he is a man that has other
things to do besides. He will not altogether be a slave to
his counter—he will have his siesta in hot weather—smoke,
formerly his canaster, now his Havannah—and drink his
coffee, or eat his ice in his luxurious house, or his cafe
on the Jungfersteig, as the case may be.—Leaves from
my Journal.

RELIGION IN GERMANY. Nothing can be more
lamentable than to bear the language of the Germans when
speculating upon the future destinies of their country.
They seem to Kaye lost all confidence, not in their rulers
alone, for at that one should hardly be surprised ; but,
what is far worse, at their country's fortunes. One and
all declare that there is no real religion in Germany ; and
though at first I could hardly bring myself to credit it, I
have now come to the conclusion that it is no exaggeration
of the fact. Frederick the Great and his system have fairly
uprooted it in North Germany, and indeed the truth com-
pels me to declare, that Protestant Germany is almost
without a creed. The church service is never thought of
on a week-day, never twice on a Sunday ; and in Dresden
and other places, I believe the habit of the upper classes is
to go about once a-month. If you express your surprise
at this habitual absence from God's house, they will tell
you that by going too often it loses its effect. In regard
to the working classes, I have no data ; but there are cer-
tain indications that would tend to show that the expecta-
tion of such observances on their part must be limited
indeed. In the first place, their opportunities and means
of attendance are in a similar rat .° ; then they work a
good deal on a Sunday ; then they have adult Sunday-
schools, where the subject of religion is never introduced.

The eu6

thunde

con fusion

. . The faith Of Christ crucified for our offences,
and risen again for our justification, is not only never
taught, but the poisonous doctrines of Hegel, Banner,
and Strauss are openly inculcated. Not the schoolmasters
only, but the clergy also, I am assured—and by the Pro-
testants themselves—deeply tinctured by these blasphe-
mous opinions. The sowers then go forth to sow their
seed, and the fruits in due time (not quite so rapidly,
though perfectly similar, to those of the Theban plough,)
spring up.—lbid.
DISSOLUTION OF AN ICEBERG.—From four o'clock in
the morning till ten, for six hours, our attention was con-
tinu,lly attracted by the thundering noise and convulsive
motions of an iceberg, which happened to be crumbling to
pieces in the act of changing its position in the water. It
was of immense size, not less than two hundred and fifty
feet above the surface of the water, and hall a mile in
length and breadth. It could be compared to a cube,
each of the sides of which would measure half a mile. The
upper surface was perfectly horizontal, but presented a
rough pinnacled appearance, as if a number of rough, irre-
gularly-pointed conical eminences, varying from twenty
to thirty feet in beight, had been closely planted side
by side on it. The sides were perfectly perpendicular,
almost quite straight ; but they appeared to be a little fis-
sured, as if the depressions between the pinnacles had been
continued a little downwards, in the form of cracks or
narrow crevices " When an immense ice-
berg begins to tumble to pieces and change its position in

. _ .
the water, the sight is really grand—perhaps one that can
vie with an earthquake. Masses inconceivably great,
four times the size of St. Paul's Cathedral or Westminster
Abbey, arc submerged in the still, blue water, to appear

,e people

sions of repentance'

agai❑ ;It the surface, rolling end heaving ggantically in
the swelling waves. Volumes of spray rise like clouds of
white vapour into the air all round, and shut out the be-
holder from a scene too sacred for eyes not immortal. The
sound that is emitted is not second to terrific peals of
thunder, or the discharge of whole parks of artillery. The
sea, smooth and tranquil, is aroused, and oscillations
travel ten or twelve miles in every direction ; and if ice
should cover its surface in one entire sheet, it becomes
broken up into detached pieces, in the same manner as if
the swell of an extensive sea or ocean had reached it.
And, before a quiescent state is assumed, probably two or
three large icebergs occupy its place, the tops of some of
which may be at an elevation of upwards of two hundred
feet, having, in the course of the revolution, turned up the
blue mud from the bottom at a depth of two hundred or
three hundred fathoms."—Sutherland's Voyage in Baf-
fin's Bay.

A MARRIED COUPLE IN EGYPT.--The Fellah, named
Haroun, said, that when he came of age to marry, which
was when the barber's wife began to throw date-stones at
him from behind a wall, and then betray herself by an

affected giggle, not finding a suitable match in his
cwn village, he travelled through the neighbouring dis-
tricts until he met with a very poor couple who had an
only daughter. He made his propositions, was accepted,
and, after the necessary delays, found himself possessed
of a wife. A detail of all his comic tribulations need not
he given. Suffice it to say that the bride—too young to
have a witness within her of the propriety of her being

con greg

I to the r

handed over to the I ough tenderness of a stran

first half of the hone,•moon Ilaroun's

namented wi
him. He ,gr

h scratches that no friend
ively applied for redress fr

uld rec

old and intercede

who pr

was without effect ; and the bridegroon
native village with a new father and moths
whom it was as dangerous to approach as a h
in a bag. Had he been alone with her, matters might
have been smoothed at the expense of a few tears ; but,
in the midst of his remonstrance, tle old people would
invariably rush to the rescue, and accuse the poor bewil-
dered man of assassinating their daughter. Under these
circumstances he consulted the Kadie of the village, xho
was esteemed of good counsel. `• The matter is easy, 0
Haroun," said the Kadie, having heard an unvarnished
statement of the case. " Pretend thou to give up the
matter as a bad job, and go out as if to work. The old
people will soon grow weary of staying at home, having
all their new relations to visit. Watch thy opportunity,
and slip back armed with a good stick as soon as they are
out. Let the stick be at least two fingers in thickness ;
and, when thou hast locked thyself in, fall to, in the name
of the prophet, and beat thy wife well ; beat her till she
shrieks for mercy ; beat her till thou drawest blood—zing,
zong, Wallah ! Billah ! and, by my beard, she will become
as amiable as a young buffalo that feedeth out of its mas-
ter's hand." The. bridegroom did as he advised, and,
having nearly committed murder, was acknowledged as
lord paramount ; so that when the parents came back they
found their daughter humble as a dove just fluttering after
capture, with one eye beaming love and the other hound
up by a rag. "In this way," said the narrator, " was I
saved from the necessity of a divorce."— Village Life in
Egypt.

Igehog

A WHALE WITH THE TooTH-Acne.---Among the
ailments to which sperm whales are subject is the jumping
tooth-ache. It operates on their nervous system as it
does upon that of mankind, rendering them crabbed and
fractious. Just at daybreak one morning, while we were
cruising on the " off-shore" ground, a violent commotion
in the water about two miles ahead, resembling breakers,
attracted attention. It continued unabated until we were
within 50 rods of it, when a sperm whale (for such it
proved to be) threw his entire body into the air, and fell
back into his native element with a tremendous report.
Of course the yards were hauled aback, and the boats
lowered, and several minutes elapsed before it was deemed
prudent to approach the monster. Finding, however, that
he had no idea of becoming quiet, we advanced with cau-
tion, and succeeded in securing one iron firmly in his
back, which rendered him more restless. Giving him
plenty of slack line, we removed to a respectful distance,
hoping he would sound or retreat, but he was not disposed
to do either. So, taking our oars, we pulled sufficiently
near to give the boat-header an opportunity to lance him;
He seemed to be aware of our intention, for he turned and
rushed towards us with the design of giving us a "fowing,"
which we narrowly escaped. During the next half hour
he chased us, and it was with much difficulty that we
avoided him. When near us he turned on his back and
raised his jaw, bringing to view two handsome rows of
ivory. Among terrific objects, an enraged whale holds a
prominent place. An hour passed in unavailing attempts
to accomplish the desired object, the whale becoming
more furious, and the hope of conquering him growing
fainter. At length, while the attention of the monster
was directed towards us, the mate came upon him in an
opposite direction and dealt him a death wound, relieving
us of a burden of anxiety, which indicated itself in the
pallid countenances and nervous agitation of the boat's
crew. He was very reluctant to yield, and the death
struggle was long and violent. If a cat has nine lives, as
is sometimes remarked, that fellow had nineteen. Before
night his blubber was in the try-pots,, and his jaw was
stripped of its covering. On extracting his teeth the
cause of his singular movement was revealed. The cavi-
ties in several contained a large number of worms an
eighth of an inch in length. The teeth were perfectly
sound, but the marrow or nerve of the tooth, which was
an inch in diameter at the lower extremity, was in many
of them entirely consumed by the insects that seemed to
have bred there.—American Whaler's Journal.

THE LITURGY.

LECTURE AT THE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.
Owing to some cause the order of the programme was de-
parted from on Friday evening, and the Rev. J. B. Owen's
lecture, on " The History and Popular Expositions of the
Liturgy," took precedence of those of the Rev. St. Vincent
Beechy, on " The Astronomy of Scripture."
After some prefatory remarks, the lecturer gave a his-
tory of the various translations of the Bible, introductory
to the account of its use in the Church Service._ The

practice of reading portions of the Old and N
meats alternately was derived from the Jews. Anciently,
the Jews, in their public services, read only the law, which
was divided into fifty-four sections, so as to allow a por-
tion for each Sabbath. Antiochus Epiplianes interdicted
the reading of it ; but, as the interdict did not include the
Prophets, the shrewd Jews divided them into fifty-four
portions, which were read instead of the l,•lw ; but, when
the law was restored, the two were read alternately ; ane
on this practice the first and second lessons of the Eng
Liturgy were founded. The Epistles and Gospels
thought to have been selected by St. Jerome : it was

v Testa-

hey had been in use for 1,200 yea:

&nciently,

3. the reader announced the title of the Gospel
le people exclaimed, " Glory be to thee, 0 Lord 1" Tin!
as no rule f,r it. Kinl
with the Lord's Prayer

vas still clone, though there
Edward's fiat Prayer-book beg,

the rest was added in the second book. The introductory
struck, as it were, the key-note to the whole
of which the exhortation, like an overture, gave
They were a sweet and characteristic prelude to

p of a Church that had rioblyrescuedtheWor,

of God from its obscurity. After the exhortation followed
the general confession,—called general, because it was re-
peated by all, and because it contained no mention of

• sins, though particular sins ought to be asso-
,th the general confession in the mind of the

tom of responses was as ancient
"And let all the people say, Amen
1 at the t. nd of their liturgies like a clap of
It would be well if it were so now. " lou will
ad," said an eminent minister of the present

stheJ

:h. save the Church of
The responding should be

In the first absolution, the whole
tion consisting of mixed characters, the priest
iy in the third person. In the second, at the
ment, where communicants were presumed to come

" with a true penitent heart and lively faith," the form
was more authoritative. In the third, where the penitence
was not only presumed, but made a subject of examina-
tion, it was in its full strength, and absolute. This was
a form which he should have great hesitation in using. If
he were asked to use it by a man of whose penitence he
felt sure, he should consider it his duty not to decline.
But, inasmuch as the words, uninterpreted, were liable to
so much perversion, he thought that the less that parti-
cular form was used the better it would be on the whole
for the simple Protestantism of the Church of England.
It merely did by authority, however, what those who most
loudly objected to it did frequently without authority. It
was more hopeful and helpful to urge to humility by con-
fession of sine than to puff up the sinner's pride by refer-
ring I;iim to his experiences ; to bid him cry for mercy
rather than shout out glory. It had been well said, if
there were less shouting out glory, and more crying for
grace, it would be better for man, who had too little of
the one to care much about the other. He knew a man
who was in the habit of making great professions when he
was sick, but who always returned to his old ways when
he got well. In one of his illnesses, when he was, as
usual, making loud protestations of his change of heart, a
homely neighbour said to him, " Wait a bit, John,
thou'st got the handcuffs on now."
Bassil asserted that it was the ancient custom of the
Church to begin with confession. Confession and prayer
were the aborigines of worship. No man could be said to
have taken a single step in religion who had not confessed
his sins and sought for pardon. The repetition of the
Lord's Prayer was ascribed to two causes : first, that it
was contained in every separate service, implying that no
worship was complete without it : secondly, that, in the
morning, three distinct services had been joined together.
The lecturer next proceeded to explain the meaning
and derivation of the various terms applied to different
parts of the Church Service, and to the objects used in
the celebration of her ordinances. He then pointed out
the harmony and suitability of the services, showing how
admirably each part was adapted to the rest, and to the
place in which it stood. The invitatory psalm, " 0, Come
let us sing unto the Lord," was appropriately introduced
by versicles, as the confession was by sentences; acid it
formed a fine preamble to the devotional psalms that
followed, with all the range of human experience marked
out in them as upon a chart. Had they received a bles-
sing ? In the Psalms there was a thanksgiving. Did
they want a blessing ? In the Psalms there was a petition.
Would they bow their souls in humiliation ? The Psalms
breathed plenty of strains of the lowest self-abasement
before God. David's harp waked a responsive echo in
every awakened heart, and seemed as it its strings had
been swept by the hand of Him who knew what was in
man, and could tell out every secret of the soul of his
sensitive creature. The Doxology at the end of each
seemed to convert the Jewish psalm into a Christian
hymn, by its more evangelical proclamation of the Trinity.
The postures adopted in the Church of England were
in accordance with the rubric of nature as well as that of
the Church, while the change from one to another
prevented weariness. After the first lesson, from
beholding with the eyes of faith the wonderful things of
God's law, the Church returned like a fire replenished
with fuel to the work of praise in the Te Mann. The
Doxology WUS not added here, because the Te Deum was
itself but a paraphrase of the Doxology. The Old
Testament was read before the New, reminding the
worshippers that " the law was their schoolmaster to
bring them to Christ." Both were read by the minister
standing, because he was the representative of him who,
in the Synagogue of Nazereth, " stood up for to read."
Referring to some compilations which it had been
proposed to substitute for the Church Services, Mr.
Owen said he could not consent to the change; and he
based his refusal upon the authority of that book which
had taught him to believe that " the old was better."
The Moravians were a single-hearted body of Christians,
for whom he had great respect. They had a book con-
trifling portions for every day in the year. There was a
verse or two of Scripture ; then a verse of a hymn ; and
then some short reflections. On the anniversary of
Purim, the quotation from Scripture was, "So they
banged Haman on the gallows fifty cubits high." And
then followed the first line of the hymn, " Hallelujah,
what a height ! " The coincidence, no doubt, was
perfectly accidental; but it was no wonder if Churchmen
preferred their old, simple liturgies to any arrangement
that was liable to accidents of that kind.

If faith came by hearing, the Creed, being a confession
of faith, was in its best place after the ►essons. It was a

believe," but each for himself said " I b
was no faith by priest or proxy. The
into privacy, and could only profess his
belief in common with the con
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