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tant invisible!" Yes! God's own immediate share in
the production of yonder flour is utterly beyond the re-
searches of the philosopher ! His eyes, ears, touch,
taste, smell, intuitions, are as useless for this kind of
knowledge as if his body and mind were devoid of them
There are, then, facts in the world around us whose mys
terious origin is beyond the comprehension of the being
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f, indeed, we wait, before we eat the bread
es life, until we have traced its ultimate
origin, we shall die; and why should we be staggered if
that is denied to us concerning, the bread of life, which is
denied to us of the bread that perisheth ?. If there are

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mysteries in the world of matter, it might be reasonably
expected, that there would he mysteries in the world of
spirits.—Church of England Quarterly Review.

ORIGIN OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.—Saint Paul
preached the Gospel of Christ in Britain about the 14th
year of the Emperor Nero, and A.D. 63. He there ap-
pointed Aristnbultm rnentinnpa in An F-i 4,4- 4-- 4t.,.

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Romans, as the first bishop, and established a cemplete
Episcopal form of church government. The church of
Britain thus established was senior to that of Rome ;
Linus, the first bishop of the latter place, being appointed
by joint authority of Peter and Paul, in the year of their
martyrdom, after Paul's return from Britain. The
Church in Britain continued to be governed by its own
bishops for 600 years, independent of any foreign church,
and was found in that state by Austin, the Pope's first
missionary, at which time they had schools and churches,
and a learned clergy ; and were in a flourishing state,
and refused subjection to the Pope or his emissaries.
The British Church was the first Protestant Church in
the world, having so early as the 7th century, and 900
years before Luther, strongly protested against the errors
of the Church of Rome, and refused to hold communion
with that church. Their simplicity and purity of worship
was such that they would not sit even at the same table,
nor lodge under the same roof with the followers of Aus-
tin, on account of their superstitious and idolatrous cere-
monies. These facts are commended to the special notice
of those who talk of the Church of England as beginning
a " dubious existence in the reign of Henry VIII."

MISS CATHERINE HAYES AND THE BISHOP OF LIME-
RICK.—An incident somewhat romantic in its character,
formed the first introduction of Catherine Hayes to the
late Hon. and Right Rev. Edmund Knox. Near to the
See House then situated in Henry-street, is the town
mansion of the Earl of Limerick, in whose family an aged
female relative of Miss Hayes resided. The gar Jens
attached to these houses stretch in parallel lines to the
banks of the Shannon, and were remarkable for their
picturesque be--`- -hour near the

_.,“ery. A w, covered
river's brink was a favourite resort of Catherine Hayes,
then a young and delicate child—timid, gentle, and
reserved, shrinking from the sportive companionship of
her playmates ; her chief apparent source of pleasure being
to sit alone, half-hidden among the leaves, and warble
Irish ballad after ballad, the airs and words of which she
appeared to have caught up and retained with a species of
intuitive facility. One evening, while thus delightfully
occupied "herself forgetting," and never dreaming but
that she was " by the world forgot," some pleasure parties
on the river were attracted by the clear silvery tones of
her voice, and the correct taste she even then displayed.
Boat after boat silently dropt down the stream, pausing
in the shadow of the trees, whence, as from the cage of
a singing bird, came the warblings that attracted them.
Not a whisper announced to the unconscious child the
audience she was delighting, till, at the conclusion of the
last air, "The Lass of Gowrie," the unseen vocalist
finished the ballad, dwelling on the passage "And now
she's Lady Gowrie," with that prolonged and thrilling
shake which owes nothing at all to the after-cultivation
her voice received, and which, in years to come, was to
cause the critical and fastidious pit occupants of the Grand
Opera to " rise at her," and to forget, in the passionate
fervour of their enthusiasm, the cold formalities of eti-
quette. Then from her unseen auditory arose a rapturous
shout of applause, the first intimation the blushing and
half-frightened vocalist received that her "native wood
notes wild," had attracted a numerous and admiring
audience. The Right Rev. Edmund Knox was one of
those unseen listeners, and his correct taste and refined
discrimination at once discerned the germ of that talent,
the matured growth of which has so happily proved the
soundness of his judgment. That evening the open-air
practice terminated, and the timid girl, who knew not
the glorious natural gift she possessed, found herself sud-
denly a musical wonder, and heard with a kind of incre-
dulous.delight, confident anticipations of her future cele-
brity pronounced. She was immediately invited to the
See House, where the kindest encouragement overcame
her timidity, and she soon became the " star" of a series
of musical re-unions, given for *instruction by her kind
patron. These concerts were under the direction of the
.Messrs. Rogers, musicians of great promise, one of whom
is now organist to the cathedral at Limerick. Singing to
their accompaniment, amid a circle, predisposed to receive
her with favour, Catherine Hayes ".came out," bar "rapid
onward progress being sort rasaufees eo tills p. 024464
University Magazine.