The Parish Magazine

I should also be very glad, if any of those laymen in the Parish whose hearts sometimes tell them that they might do something in Church work, would come to my house on Tuesday evening December 5th, at 8 p.m. as I have a proposal to make to them, LBSTER LESTER.

THE NEW LECTIONARY.

Agreeably to the advice of our Bishop given at the Meeting of the Synod last month, the New Table of Lessons will be used on and after the 1st of January next.

ADVENT THOUGHTS FROM A LAY SERMON.

NOT BY PROFESSOR HUXLEY.

F all acts for a man repentance is the most divine! The deadliest sin is the supercilious consciousness of no sin,-that is death-the heart so conscious is divorced from sincerity, humiand fact; is dead: it is 'pure' as dead dry sand is pure. David's life and history, as written for us in those Psalms of his, I consider to be the truest emblem ever given of a man's moral progress and warfare here below. All earnest souls will ever discern in it the faithful struggle of an earnest human soul towards what is good and best. Struggle often baffled, sore baffled, down as into entire wreck; yet a struggle never ended; ever, with tears, repentance, true unconquerable purpose, begun anew. Poor human nature! Is it not a man's walking in truth, always that: 'a succession of falls?' Man can do no other. In this wild element of a Life, he has to struggle onwards; now fallen, deep-debased; and ever, with tears, repentance, with bleeding heart, he has to rise again, struggle again still onwards. That his struggle be a faithful unconquerable one: that is the question of questions. We will put up with many sad details, if the soul of it were true. Details by themselves will never teach us what it is."

BAPTISMS.

November 5. Earnest, son of Francis and Ellen Stratton.

13. Alice Lydia, daughter of Arthur Henry and Lydia Golding.

MARRIAGES.

4. William Thomas Parrett to Ann Elizabeth Fall, both of Wimborne.

9. George Down to Fanny Derham both of Wimborne. 20. Henry Lambert to Mary Cass, both of Wimborne.

BURIAL.

13. William Hopkins Eaton, Lay Vicar of the Minster, aged 35 years.

NOTICE. THE PARISH MAGAZINE will be continued (D.V.) another year, Subscribers should fill up the form enclosed and send it to the Publishers as soon as posible.

ANFORD. It is proposed to have a special Service with a
Sermon, on every Wednesday evening during Advent.

BAPTISM. November 12. Hannah Polden.

MARRIAGE.

George Tegg to Phoebe Adelaide Curtis.