in strict conformity with Scripture and apostolical practice. Upon the first day of the week, let every one of you lay by him in store as God has prospered him.' (1 Cor. xvi. 2.) To give in this way is to give in faith, and with good security of having our gifts sanctified unto efficacy. Here, then, in the practice of the Church throughout all ages we have a rule; one which I believe, as well as hope, will be again restored. It is not dead, for it cannot die. It sleeps, I lament, though I rejoice it gives symptoms of awaking. If we will but awaken it, we shall find it still strong. These ways of the Bible and the Church are the old ways, the good ways, which have been from the beginning, and will be to the end. They are the only ways by which we can hope effectually to do the great work now required to be done in this country. Narrow systems and temporary expedients will fail us; they have been weighed in the balance and found wanting;' but these ways will never fail us, if we will but follow them, not doubting but believing."-Christian Remembrancer.

NEW CHURCHES.

SURREY.-The new church, the Holy Trinity, Cobham, was consecrated by the Lord Bishop of Winchester, on Tuesday, 18th October. The church is a plain, neat edifice, capable of holding about 250 persons. A burying-ground is attached to

the church. The sum of £1000 has been raised for the endowment of the church, and the expense of the building was defrayed by voluntary contributions, aided by a grant of £150 from the Incorporated Society, and of £450 from the Winchester Diocesan Church Building Society. Many of the parishioners who could not afford to give money, voluntarily and zealously gave their labour in drawing and preparing the materials for the building. It was considered that upwards of £70 had been saved in this way. The collection which was made during the reading of the sentences at the offertory amounted to £123, including a donation of £25 from the bishop.

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.-A new church and new national schools, with suitable houses for the master and mistress, have been erected in the populous and extensive parish of Lenton, near Nottingham. The total cost incurred has been £8943, towards which F. Wright, of Lenton House, Esq., contributed the munificent sum of £3800, and his sisters, the Misses Wright, £1000.

The church has recently been consecrated by the Lord Bishop of Lincoln. The contributions at the offertory amounted to the liberal sum of £174 6s. 7 d. An elegant silver communion service has been presented by the Misses Wright, of Lenton Firs. Books for the use of the church have been given by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. The church is a commodious and handsome stone structure, after the early English style, with clerestory, side aisles, and tower. An ancient font, of singular workmanship, which belonged to Lenton Abbey, about 800 yeas ago, has been restored and placed in the new church.

LANCASHIRE. - In the month of June the Lord Bishop of Chester consecrated four churches in the towns of Manchester and Salford within two days. The first of these was St. Matthias, Broughton-road, Salford. The second was St. Bartholomew's, Regent-road, Salford. The third was St. Jude's, Canal-street, Ancoats, which is not a new building, but has been purchased the "Manchester and Eccles Church Building Society," having been a dissenting chapel. The fourth church, called St. Simon and St. Jude, in Granby-row, was erected by the latter Society. Three others, in the town or immediate neighbourhood, have been consecrated during the last month, October, within two days also, by his Lordship: the first in order was St. Silas's church, Ardwick, erected by the "Ten Churches' Association." The next is St. Matthew's, Stretford, built by subscriptions, aided by grants, and will seat nearly one thousand persons. The third was St. John's church, Pendlebury, in the parish of Eccles, which has been erected by subscriptions, aided also by a grant from the "Manchester and Eccles Church Building Society." Three more churches are now in the course of erection; two in Manchester, and one in the parish of Eccles.

MIRAMICHI. Opening of the New Church at Blackville. On the 20th Sunday after Trinity (the 9th ultimo), the newlyerected parish church of Blackville, on the south-west branch of the Miramichi, was opened for divine service. This church is built in the plain Gothic style of architecture, having at its western end a tall tower, the basement of which forms the vestry-room the tower is crowned with battlements and pinnacles, and has a pleasing appearance. A lowly chancel, which is lighted by a triple window, and encircled by a border of stained glass, terminates the eastern part of the nave. windows are narrow, and of the lancet shape, filled with very small panes of glass, of the diamond form. Substantial buttresses have been placed between each of the windows, and at all the angles of the other parts of the church. The whole exterior of the building appears to be well finished, and wears (as it was

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happily observed by a pious churchwoman) quite an old country aspect. Within the interior of the church there is a centre aisle, on either side of which are placed open seats. The set of beautiful books, for the celebration of divine service, and which were used on this day for the first time, have been presented to the congregation by the venerable Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, at the request of the Lord Bishop of Nova Scotia. Towards the building of this church munificent grants have been made by those ancient friends of the colonial church -the Societies for Promoting Christian Knowledge, and for the Propagation of the Gospel the Church Society of the Archdeaconry of New Brunswick has also afforded its usual liberal aid; and liberal donations have been remitted from several friends in England. The collection, which was made during the reading of the sentences of the offertory, amounted to £6 28. 3d. The service was concluded with the prayer "for the whole state of Christ's Church militant here in earth," a Collect, and the Blessing. It was delightful to observe the deep interest taken in the solemn services of the day, by the members of the congregation, many of whom must have been hitherto quite unacquainted with our Liturgy.

Reviews.

1. The Christian Vine. PART I. London: Burns. 2. The Gospel after the Pentecostal Pattern. Burns. 3. The Life of the Rev. Isaac Milles. Burns.

4. A Help to Catechising, by JAMES BEAVEN, M. A. Burns.

5. Penny Books. FIRST SERIES. Burns.

6. Halfpenny Books.

FIRST SERIES.

Burns.

WE regret our limits will not allow a separate notice to each publication in the above list. There is no publisher of the present day to whom our young friends are so much indebted as Mr. Burns, for, from the price of one halfpenny up to five shillings, no one has sent forth so many instructive and edifying books. Nor is it merely for the young that he is so judicious a caterer; even the

accomplished divine and parish priest owes him a debt of gratitude for the many excellent publications which are continually pouring forth from his press, as from a well-head of healing waters, purifying the turbid and polluted stream which has too long inundated that portion of the literature of the country provided for youth, and indeed the majority of our population. These little books are invaluable to the clergyman, and the conductors of day and Sunday schools, in enabling them to disseminate, in a pleasing and attractive form right principles, and correct notions of all matters connected with our Holy Church.

In the above list of books, which have just issued from the press, will be found edifying instruction for all classes, from the scholar on the lowest reading-form to the learned clergyman. The Christian Vine is the commencement of a series of papers, setting forth the great doctrines of our Church, and impressing upon all in solemn and Scriptural language the importance of all her sacred ordinances. The second upon the list is a small tract, being the substance of a charge by the learned and excellent Bishop Doane; the title is perhaps a little obscure, but we can assure our readers there is no obscurity in the doctrines propounded, but from the beginning to the end it is full of uncompromising truth, and abounds with that clear and energetic and stirring manner of expression so characteristic of the American Bishop. We heartily recommend it as a powerful antidote against what in the present day is popularly but erroneously called "Evangelical" teaching.

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As we have already observed, it is a matter of regret to us that we cannot allow a separate notice of any length to each of the above publications-perhaps if we could do so we might find some little fault with the penny halfpenny books (especially the latter) as being written in language not sufficiently simple for such children as they are intended to amuse and instruct: for instance we think a child of six or seven years old in Sunday schools will scarcely understand what is meant (in the tale of The Magpie's Nest) by my Lady Magpie

and her family being "not so impeccable" it is a hard word for children who are more used to homely Anglo-Saxon than Latin!

The two books, however, which we most admire, and think most highly of, are The Life of the Rev. Isaac Milles, and Beaven's Help to Catechising-the latter is a second edition, in a smaller form for the use of schools, &c., of the very best explanation of the Catechism that we have yet seen; and we earnestly hope that all persons engaged in the instruction of youth will forthwith provide themselves with so admirable and useful a manual. The Life of the Rev. Isaac Milles is a most charming piece of biography, exceedingly well-timed at the present juncture, when persons are held up to the admiration and imitation of youth chiefly in proportion as they have succeeded in acquiring worldly honours, and wealth, and distinction. It may be thought by the world that a man has amply fulfilled the end of his existence here upon earth, if, like the Spanish General ESPARTERO, he has risen by his own exertions (as it is profanely termed) from being the son of a poor carpenter to the rank of Regent of Spain, and "the director of the destinies of his country,"

although he may have been utterly careless of his own destiny in the world to come: but the LORD of that "world to come" has forbidden us to be careful about all these things, but to SEEK FIRST the kingdom of God and His righteousness:- and beautiful is the commentary upon these words afforded by the life of the "gentle Rector of Highclere." From the font to the grave he seems to have had ever a reverent regard to the purity of his baptismal robe, which he seems to have preserved, by God's grace, unsullied by any gross crimes. The parish in which, for near forty years, he diligently and laboriously fulfilled the holy duties of a parish priest, was "situated in a remote and desolate corner of the world, the living of small value, the country barren, and the people poor;" yet though thus obscurely placed, he felt it to be the very station of life unto which it had pleased God to call him; and who shall doubt, that, though he thus while upon earth "lived in the shade," he now inherits a far brighter