The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-01 00:00:00

TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1854.

was rather inconvenient to find on the 30th of July, 1864,
that his salary had come to an end on the 31st of Marell,l
1853. From reading the debates and the propositions
some Liberal members, he was led to inquire whether he
could safely accept so large a sum as £6OO ; so he ankeu
an officer what amount of military protection could be
afforded by the sum of £6OO a year ; the answer We'
about a corporal's guard : and that satisfied his mind ir!/)
could not do wrong under all the circumstances if 151
accepted as much pay as was given to a corporal's guar"
in Her Majesty's service. And this brought him to the
plain, simple question—was it or was it not true that one
pound spent in religion was worth a thousand spent in
war? It had been stated that the Kaffir War cost three
millions. That was about six times as much as the whole
Church expenditure in New Zealand during forty years'
which had the effect of converting the whole native poP11"
lation to the faith of Christ, of adding a new colony to the
British Empire, and an important branch to the Church
of Christ.

ARCHDEACON THORPE ox PEWS.—In a chasee recently
delivered at Durham, Archdeacon Thorpe made the fol-
lowing pertinent observations on pews,and on the shorten;
ing of services :—" It was important that the formal
arrangement of the sittings be adapted for the realization
of devotion as well as to the convenience of the people'
For example, it was well that the congregation should
worship in one direction, not facing each other to their
mutual annoyance ' • but looking one way; and ancient,
he might say, a Catholic custom, as well as with some
propriety, directed them to the East. They should have
space to kneel, for their prayers required that provision ;
and to sit with comfort, for their services were long. Ile
would have the seats so constituted as to support every
part of the form, not occupying more space than necessary",
not impeding the sight of any of the congregation, or
damaging the effect of a religious assembly. All of thou
open, free, unencumbered by doors, and, he would add,
moveable. He then dwelt upon the better feeling which
was manifesting itself amongst the community upon the
pew question. Men begin to see the hardship of the
views which excluded a portion of their fellow-parishioners
from the house of their common religious offices. They
begin to feel that the square or oblong box, with the
cushions and the curtains, was destructive of congregs'
tional harmony. They felt that the church was not the
place ostentatiously to mark the separation from their
Christian brethren, with whom, whether of the same
social rank or not, or of the same place in the world, they
were soon to mingle in the dust. Before he left that sub-
ject, he would commend to their consideration the neces'
sity of having shorter and more frequent services, and the
opening of the churches for the exercise of private devotion.
They were in some degree restrained by the Act of
uniformity; but why should their prescribed services be
always used together ?—in the morning prayers litany, and
communion offices, and sermon, all in one. It was like
the practice of the boy who duly recited all his prayers on
the Saturday +litchi- that they might be neglected during
the week. Why shou I their people be discouraged frog'
resorting at any tune to their sacred places for meditative
andprayer ?"—Church and State Gazette.