should be read by those interested in the subject. This is a very good number.-Two articles in Cornhill are of special note, a curious and amusing account of some "Unreformed Corporations," and a really learned criticism on Mr Tennyson's writings entitled "A New Study of Tennyson," and showing remarkable familiarity almost equally with the Greek, Latin, and English literatures. We had no adequate conception, we must fairly say, of the extent to which the Laureate had been indebted to his predecessors for gems and germs of thought, to form the material of his poems, plot and description; and though some of his parallel passages are probably fortuitous coincidences of thought or phrases of thought or phrase, showing faint similarities, and nothing more, the writer seems to have to a great extent established his thesis, that in Mr Tennyson "we have to deal not with a Homer, but with an Apollonius, not with an Alcæus, but with a Horace; not so much with a poet of original genius, as with a great artist, with one whose mastery lies in assimilative skill, whose most successful works are not direct studies from simple nature, but studies from nature interpreted by art."

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COL. iii. 3.

"For ye are dead, and your life is hid with CHRIST in Gor." Travellers among savage nations tell us that, for the most part, the wild and half-naked people are more taken with shining beads and pieces of bright cloth than by the more solid and useful gifts of civilised life. Their friendship is easily purchased and at a cheap rate. What takes the eye is everything; that which requires intelligence, study, and a higher estimate is put aside. The same kind of thing is true of the children of this world. Wise as they are, and civilised, and highly cultivated, and full of wants, and grasping after many things; wonderful as are their works, their reasonings, their schemes, their productions, their imaginings, still they are, like the savages, taken more by the tinsel, the glitter of the things which are immediately before them, or within easy reach, than with the better and purer, and nobler and more glorious promises of the hidden and the future, the unseen! The citizens of this world are, before the angels of GOD, like the savages to us, to be greatly pitied, either as knowing no better, or else as refusing to learn: whereas the citizens of the Heavenly Jerusalem are the really civilised; I mean with that highest civilisation, which implies the

But the world

restored likeness of God within the man. and its ways are manifest, they are not hidden. The true Christian and his ways are not so easily discovered; for much is, of necessity, hidden; not of set purpose, indeed, for the Christian is like the city set on a hill which cannot be hid; but because men will not look, will not understand, choose to be indifferent, loving to be wise in their own conceit, and therefore being the more unwise! been hid and is hid with CHRIST in GOD," he tells them When the Apostle tells the Colossians "Your life has indeed, and us who have succeeded to their privileges, a most solemn truth. But he does not say it without grave caution; nor may we take it to ourselves without an equal amount of circumspection. "If," says he, "if then ye were raised together with CHRIST" (as I told you just now was implied in your baptismal ceremonies), "be seeking those things which are above, where CHRIST, Who died, and was buried and rose again, is now set on the right hand of GoD. Let your mind be lifted up towards heavenly things, not left to pursue only the things of earth, for," he adds, "ye died when ye were baptised; ye died to this world's life; and your life, as Christians, has been hidden and is hidden with CHRIST in GOD." Such is the full force of S. Paul's words.

The Christian's life, then, my brethren, is "a hidden life"-His real life is not on the earth, nor for the earth. His desires are beyond this world; higher and further-reaching than the utmost condition of earthly kings, and conquerors, and statesmen, and men of wealth. He is not understood (nor can he be) by those whose ideas are bounded by a country, or a few thousand acres of territory, or some millions of pounds. In short it is as the Apostle writes,-"His life is hidden." And yet he has a visible and outside life in this world. He has a body compassed with infirmity, he has his sorrows, his pleasures, his wants, his trials, his ailments, his active duties, his seasons of rest, his conversation with the outside world, matters he is as much visible as others are: perhaps even his domestic relations, his social position. In all these more openly so, because the more honest; for having little to conceal, he cares the less to be watched and observed. But still it is as the Apostle writes, "his life is hidden." The believer has an inward and an outward life, and they

do not correspond; and thus there seems to be about

him a kind of contradiction in the matters of this life?

He may be poor, or weak in the flesh, or in shame and of low estate and consideration among his fellow-men; while hope, and full of the prospects of an ever-increasing glory. his heart is rich in the joy of the Holy Ghost, strong in Take for the best of mere human patterns the great Apostle himself.

How speaks he of his outward life.

It was full of patience (or endurance) of afflictions, of necessities, of distresses, of hopes, of imprisonments, of troubles, of labours, of watchings, of fastings; it was manifested among men by pureness, by knowledge, by κέκρυπται

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"Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he that doeth the Will of my Father." The whole of S. Matt. vii., from which to-day's Gospel is taken, is occupied in enforcing this principle, which it is obvious to say is an absolutely fundamental part of the religion of CHRIST. The First LESSON for the morning describes

the solemn and dignified close of David's eventful reign; a period as full probably of variety of incident as any life ever was, and which has left broader and deeper traces on the religious history of the human race in those Psalms of his which are still extant, and in the religious institutions of the Jewish race, which, no doubt, he re-organised, than almost any, save One. The corresponding chapters for the Evening give the opening scenes (from Kings or from Chronicles) of the new reign of Solomon, full as they were of splendid promise, too soon to be overclouded. Sermons on the lives of either David or Solomon will be opportune.

The Festival Services take in every respect precedence of the Services for the Sunday, which is commemorated simply by its Collect.

LESSONS: Morning, 2 Kings i. 1-16; S. Luke ix. 51-57.

Evening, Jer. xxvi. 8-16; S. Matt. xiii. 1-24. James, the "brother," that is, the adeλpós or kinsman of our LORD. Frater is used in Latin in a similar sense. S. Jerome commenting on S. Matt. xii. 46-49, where the "brethren" of the LORD are spoken of, writes thus: "Certain persons suppose the brethren of the LORD to have been the sons of Joseph by another wife, following the absurdities of apocryphal writings, and representing them to have been from a certain woman named Escha of mean extraction. But I, as is contained in that book which I wrote against Helvidius, understand by the brothers of the LORD not the sons of Joseph, but the cousins (emsobrini) of the Saviour, the sons of Mary, sister of the mother of the LORD, who also is called mother of James the Less, of Joses, and of Judas."

Other theories, however, make the Apostle the son of Zebedee and Salome, and the brother of S. John the Divine. He was called "the greater," possibly as being the elder of the two. With S. John he received the epithet of Boanerges, or Sons of Thunder, from our LORD Himself; a name which probably refers to their fiery and somewhat rash zeal. He was the first of the Apostles to suffer martyrdom, and the only one whose death is recorded in the New Testament. S. Clement of Alexandria relates that his accuser was so astonished at witnessing his fearless confession of faith that he also professed himself a Christian ; and that having received the forgiveness and blessing of the Apostle, they were beheaded together; a story by no means improbable. Later legends, however, added greatly to this simple outline; and it was asserted not only that the Apostle preached in Spain, but that he was buried at Compostella.

The Festival is not an early one, nor is it certain when it was

first instituted, but it is found in the Kalendar of Arras, temp. A. D. 826, so that it is earlier than the ninth century.

In the Byzantine Calendar, we have "the Holy Martyr James, Apostle and Brother of GOD," commemorated on Oct. 23. Both EPISTLE and GOSPEL are simply historical, the former giving the brief mention of the Saint's martyrdom; the latter that most significant incident of the request made by the mother of Zebedee's children for the places of greatest dignity in the Kingdom of our LORD, which shows how completely they misunderstood its nature. Here our Church, following Sarum, identifies S. James as the elder of the two brothers mentioned.

The Morning LESSONS take up another incident in this Apostle's life, and compare it with its parallel in the Old Testament, viz., the proposal of the "Sons of Thunder" (S. Luke ix. 51) to call down fire upon the village of those Samaritans who, blinded by ancestral and invincible ignorance, refused to hear the LORD. Surely a proposal very characteristic of the men who made it; and wondrously suggestive is the comment of the LORD (v. 56). The Law ruled men by fear; the Gospel was to do so by Love. The Law punished irreverence and outrage; the Gospel shows us our LORD enduring it patiently and without retaliating, and then practising Himself that which HE had shortly before commanded to His Apostles (S. Matt. x. 23). The First Lesson for the Evening further illustrates, to a certain extent, the same contrast. We see in the case of Jeremiah, the principle of inflicting temporal penalties for unpopular religious views universally accepted and about to be acted upon. That is the principle from which religious persecution follows: and thereforo it is that persecutors in all ages have looked to the Old Testament, and not to the New, for their example. Our LORD conveys the spirit of an entire volume in his pregnant words, "Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of." [A. V., how. ever, rather suggests an incorrect meaning. olov veúμaтOS is not "of what disposition or temper you are bound to be," as some commentators suggest, e.g., Grotius "affectus animi," but "of what nature is the Spirit whose ye are."] For the Kingdom of CHRIST was the dispensation of the Holy Spirit. See

Rom. viii. 9.

Consult two Sermons for S. James's Day in Keble's 'Sermons for Sain's' Days' (James Parker and Co.), Nos. 33, 34. Suitable Hymns: 300, 418, 432, 435, 439.

S. J. E.

•NOTES OF THE DAY...

The Church has lost the services of a young and earnest worker by the death, under circumstances of exceptional sadness, of the Rev. Ernest Gillett Robertson, curate of Cotisford, Oxfordshire. Mr Robertson, who had only been admitted to the diaconate by Bishop Mackarness at Trinity last year, died from disease of the lungs, which had been accelerated by his residence in the little village, and his illness had prevented his ordination as priest. At his funeral, on Thursday last, the Holy Communion was chorally celebrated in his father's church, S. John the Evangelist, Haverstock-hill, and amid a violent thunderstorm,

* Probably oй édéşavтo aúтdv "they did not receive Him," is to be understood as a euphemism. It is likely that they repulsed the little

party with contumely and violence, and in fact, mobbed them. How strikingly such an incident fits in with and illustrates the exhortations on vv. 3-5, 21, 47, 48!

There will be ample work for Bishop Ryle to do in Liverpool if it is true, as was stated in the Pall Mall Gazette's account of his Lordship's enthronisation, that the Old Hundredth Psalm was substituted for "We love the place, O GOD," because the churchmanship of the latter hymn was too advanced for the great seaport. Perhaps, however, the statement is simply an effort of imagination on the part of the local reporter, for, owing to the same or some other hand, two notes of the Bishop's Pastoral, conveying the same brief summary of the document in slightly different words, appeared in the Times of Monday.

Canon Woodard, of Manchester Cathedral, the munificent promoter of church middle-class education, has purchased Taunton College, Somerset, for use as a training-college for candidates for Holy Orders. The Canon intends to devote a further sum of 20,000., in addition to the purchase-money, to provide the necessary furniture and fittings, and the buildings which, in recognition of King Alfred's connection with the neighbourhood where he sought refuge, will be called King Alfred's College, Taunton, will be opened in the autumn.

The performance of "Israel in Egypt" formed a fitting climax to the Handel Festival of 1880; the work taken, as a whole, was splendidly rendered, and from its construction is altogether the

most suitable for the exceptional conditions of these monster gatherings. It is gratifying to learn that the attendance was much larger than in 1877, and that the pecuniary result was successful. Would it be rank heresy to suggest that, at the next Festival, one of the four days should include a selection from the choral and orchestral works of other composers? It seems a pity that a hearing should be given only to one composer when such wholly

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Notes and Dueries.

SIR, What is the meaning of the rule laid down by the third Council of Carthage (A.D. 397): "Cum altari adsistitur sømper ad Patrem dirigatur oratio?" In Blunt's 'Annotated Book of Common Prayer' (part ii., page 165), it is apparently interpreted: "When the Priest takes up his position at the altar, let

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JOHN CYPRIAN RUST.

REPLY TO QUERY ON PAGE 261. SIR,-There is an elaborate dissertation on the dates of Aquila, Theodotion, and Symmachus in the preface to C. F. Bahrdt's edition of the Hexapla (Lips. 1769). Aquila is there shown to have been the first of the three. The book is in the Cambridge University Library.

I cannot divine the reasons which render it (to quote the article referred to by Mr Woolrych), "not improbable that allusion is made to the version of Theodotion" by Justin Martyr, Dial cum Tryph. cap. 71. In Smith's 'Dictionary of the Bible,' art. Versions, Ancient Greek, Dr Tregelles has evidently no suspicion that any one would place Theodotion before Aquila, and yet he does contemplate the possibility of a reference to Theodotion by Justin Martyr. In the text of which Justin Martyr is actually speaking in his seventy-first chapter, viz., Isaiah vii. 14, all the three versions have veavis instead of áplevos, the LXX, rendering.

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