Parish Magazine. It will have, in common with a great number of other things, an inside and an outside. The inside will consist of a certain number of pages edited by the Revd. J. Erskine Clarke of Derby, and will contain sundry Articles, grave and gay; the last of which will generally be a Sermon aiming at being, that which a good authority lately said all Sermons should be, viz:short-sharp-decisive. The outside, which will vary in the number of its pages according to circumstances, will be devoted to Local matter and will contain amongst other things; 1. A monthly notice sheet of Services in the Minster, Religious Meetings, School or Practice engagements, Days on which Charities may be applied for, etc. 2. A monthly Register of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials. 3. An account of all Alms collected, whether for general or special purposes, and the way in which they have been disposed of. 4. A short notice of anything which may have occurred during the month, affecting the Parish or Congregation. Besides this, it is proposed, should the circulation be sufficient to cover the additional expense, to insert from time to time short papers upon objects of interest connected with the Antiquities or Natural History of the Parish, in order to bring within reach of the many, information which at present can only be found in expensive and scarce books. These outside pages will be so numbered as to admit of their being bound up together at the beginning or end of the yearly volume. A CONFIRMATION was held in the Minster, on the 12th of July, by the Bishop of Gibraltar, at which hands were laid on the following young people of Wimborne and Holt; Bella Adams Love Daccombe Mary Ann Galpin Adela Stuart Moore Amy Watts E. White Ellen Osman Anna Kimber. Henrietta Maria Barfoot Rose Holloway Frances Ann Knowles Sarah Scott Sarah Wallingford E. Wayman Sidney George Parkinson Albert George Barnes William Oldbury Mary Jane Day Ellen Elket Sarah Horder Mildred Ann Low Lucie Mary Quick Emma Ford Ellen Dymott Henry James Blake George Cherritt William Bendal. THE Total amount of Alms received at the Holy Communion from Advent Sunday, 1868, to Advent Sunday 1869, has been £46 8 10 This sum has been equally divided between the three districts of Wimborne, Colehill and Holt, it having been agreed that Holt, notwithstanding its separation from Wimborne, should still take a third of the Communion Alms. The Communion Alms of the Wimborne District will in future be distributed by the District Visitors. -:0: COLLECTIONS IN THE MINSTER. The Collections in the Minster during the year were as follows. "Church Missionary Society" (Rev. J. Stephenson.) "National Schools" May 9. £10 13 3 June 20. 11 10 9 Aug. 15. "Diocesan Church Building Society" 9 18 0 "Society for Propagation of the Gospel" (Rev. Dr. Barry).. 10 M [Mor. Is. 44-St Mat 7. 11T [Eve. Is. 46-Rom. 7. 17 M [Mor. Is. 51-S.Mat 14 8S [Eve. Is. 49-S. Jo 2. 91st S. after Epiphany 8.45 10.45 36.30 Pamphill Service 6 9. Coal Com. 9.30-11 1652nd S. after Epiphany 12 10.453 6.30 Pamphill Service 6 Mis. M. 7.* CoalC.9 9 S.S. Teachers M. 5. [Mor. Is. 55---S. Mat. 21. 233rd S. after Epiphany 8.45 10.45 36.30 Pamphill Service 6. 24M 25 T Conversion of St. Paul 27T 26 W [Mor. Wis. 5-Acts 22 "[Eve. Wis. 6-Acts 26 11 17 S.S. Teachers M. 5. 9 Soup given out. 304th S. after Epiphany 8.45 10.45 36.30 Pamphill Service 6. 31 M [Mor. Is. 57---S. Mat. 27. Eve. Is. 58---1. Cor. 11. 9 Coal Com. 9-11. It was intended to have had an Evening Communion on the 5th Sunday in the month when one occurred; but it has been thought better, after consultation with the Bishop, to postpone this for the present, and there will be an early Communion instead on those Sundays. *The Missionary Meeting will be held in the National School Room, |