eos animalia quadrupedia, preter canes quosdam pusillos: alimenta illis radices,ex quibus panes conficiuntur, haud dissimilis saporis triticeo, tum glandes, alia figura quam nostre sed esui jocudiores. Voti cōpos iam factus Colūbus, remeare in hispaniam constituit, communitoq: loco quem primum occupauerat, solisq: quadraginta ad custodiam relictis, in hispaniam nauigat: prosperamq: sortitus nauigationem, ubi primu ad fortunatas appulit insulas, nuncios cu literis ad rege premittit, qui, de his omnibus factus certior, mirum immodū gauisus est, prefectumq: eum totius rei maritime constitues, magnis honoribus ornat. Procedunt ei uenienti obuiam uniuersi proceres, magnoq: gaudio excipitur noui orbis inuentor. Nec mora: parantur alie naues & numero & magnitudine priores longe excedentes, omniumq: rerum genere implentur. Mittit hispania iam sua in innocuum orbem uenena, oneratur plurima & serica & aurata uestis, &, cui non sat erat de hoc nostro orbe triumphasse, nauigat in puros & in innocuos populos luxus, &, que uix nostram satiare ingluuiem poterant, silue, quamuis incessantibus pene exhauste uenationibus, in remotissimas plagas mittunt suem aprumq: illorum ante hac nescios uentres distenturos. Sed nauigant cum his, qui ex parata & populos iam iam captura ingluuie prouenturis morbis Esculapii inuento medeantur. Deferuntur semina et plante arborum. Nam triticum, ut postea cognitum est, ubi terre conditum fuerat, primo statim ad grandiusculam altitudinem crescens, paulo post euanescebat, quasi damnante natura noua cibariorum genera, & eos suis radicibus esse contentos iubente. Soluens igitur Columbus classem duodecim nauium, armis uirisq: ac omni rerum copia instructam, non amplius uiginti dierum nauigatione ad insulam hispanam appellit ostendit, quos reliquerat, ad unum a barbaris strangulatos, causa pretensa quod in eorum mulieres impudici & iniurii fuissent. Igitur accusata eorum seuicie & ingratitudine, ubi uidet eos ad penitentiam uersos, ueniam eis dicit indulturum, modo fideles in posterum & dicto audientes sint. Deinde missis inquisitoribus in quascuq: partes, ubi uidet insula esse & magnitudine, & aeris teperie, et soli fecuditate, & pplorū frequētia insignem; simulq: affertur inueniri certis in locis, aquarum in preruptis, purissimu aurum, nec deesse in campis semen quodda piperi persimile & figura & sapore; statuit oino oppidu codere. Vndiq: igitur coquisita materie, adhibitisq: earū reru peritis, breui erectū est oppidū, cui Helisabet inditū nomē. Ipse prefectus, duabus sibi nauibus assumptis, īsula ipsam circuit. Deinde cōtinētis illius soli, quod Ioane nuncupaverat, litus leges, dies unu et septuaginta adnauigat ei litori, iugiter occiduu solem uersus prora tenens, circiterq: sexagies centena millia passuū, uir, nauigiorū cursus peritissimus estimator, se ee professum, ex dieru noctiuq: supputatione cognoscit. Id, quo costitit, promontoriu Euägelista appellat, retroq: flectedi cursum cōsiliū capit, rediturus eo paratior & Istructior. Inter nauigandu uero, signātur in tabula & sinus & litora & promotoria. Retulitq: hoc mūdi latus poli artici dece & octo graduu eleuationē habere, cu quatuor tū & uiginti septētrionale litus insule Hispane, poli ipsius altitudine ostedat. Cognitum est autē ex obseruatione suoru, si modo ueram inire rationem potuerit, eam que anno dni quarto & nonagesimo post millesimu & quadrigētesimu eclipsim apparuit mense Septembri, quatuor ferme horis ante apud hispanam insulam, que uulgo Sibilia nuncupatur, uisam. Ex ea autem computatione colligebat Columbus, eam insulam horis quatuor, Euangelista uero decem, a Gadibus distare; nec amplius duabus horis, hoc est, duodecima parte totius circuli terrarum, ab eo loco, quem Ptolemeus Catigara uocat, & ultimum habitabilis in oriente sole constituit, abesse. Quod si non obstiterit nauigantibus solum, breui futurum, ut ultimum oriens omni decurso inferiore nostro hemisperio, contrario cursu coniunctus fuerit a tendentibus ad occidentem. His tam miris peractis nauigationibus, regressus in hispaniam Columbus fati munus ipleuit. Rex ipse, qui uiuēti multa priuilegia cotulerat, mortuo dedit, ut filius in patris locu succederet, prefecturaq: indorum marisq: oceani ageret, qui in hodiernum usq: uiuit, summa cum amplitudine, summisq: opibus. Nec primores hispanie dedignati sunt illi coniugio copulare, iuuenem nobilitate & moribus insignem. Moriens autem Columbus haud oblitus est dulcis patrie; reliquit enim officio Sancti Georgii quod appellant, habentq: Genuenses precipuum & ueluti totius reipublice decus et columen, decimam partem prouentuum uniuersorum quos uiuens possidebat. Hic fuit uiri celeberrimi exitus, qui, si Grecorum heroum temporibus natus esset, proculdubio in deorum numerum relatus esset. JOHN THE BAPTIST. WHEN we read the account of the beheading of John the Baptist, it is not unnatural to feel a wish to know the future career of "the daughter of Herodias." The compilers of the "Dictionnaire Historique," Paris, 1828, consider that she was Salome, wife of Aristobulus, (son of Herod King of Chalcis, and grandson of Herod the Great,) who was made king of Lesser Armenia, by Nero, A.D. 54. She died about A. D. 72. An unique medal discovered by Cousinery, has on one side the head of Aristobulus with a legend nearly illegible, containing his name; and on the other, the portrait of Salome, with this legend distinct, "Baoiλioons Zaλwuns." This medal is figured in the Greek Iconography of Visconti, Vol. III. p. 311. 66 ON THE VANITY OF WEALTH. MR. EDITOR,-The following verses, on the "Vanity of Wealth," were written by a young man of the most promising talents, and the most amiable disposition, when he was only about thirteen or fourteen years old. Their much lamented author, like a spring flower cut down in its opening beauty, has just departed this life, at a very early age; and is now, I humbly, but confidently hope, through the tender mercies of his God, and the prevailing merits of his Saviour, gone to a better and a happier world. A few days before he died, he directed my attention to these verses, as expressive of the sentiments which he had long entertained concerning the value of religion,-the religion of Christ, especially at that solemn hour when every thing else fails us. On reading them over since his decease, and considering how fully he : himself experienced, in his last moments, the truth of what he had before so ably and feelingly described, I was induced to write the prosaic lines which accompany them and I venture to send them both, in the hope, that the merit of the one may throw a veil over the imperfections of the other, and that, under the interesting circumstance of the case, together they may not be thought unworthy a place in the pages of the CHRISTIAN REMEMBRANCER. I remain, Mr. Editor, Your obedient Servant. G. ON THE VANITY OF WEALTH. AH! what can riches profit those From throbbing pangs, from nature's grief, From dread of going we know not where? From inward doubts, from fear's control. Rash careless youth from virtue's way, OUTLINE OF A SERMON ON THE OCCASION OF A ON THE PLAN OF THOSE IN THE REV. H. THOMPSON'S PASTORALIA. (Communicated by the Author of that work.) Text, Hosea vi. 1.-" Come, and let us return unto the Lord; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up." ." Applicable chapters, Gen. vi., xviii., xix.; Exod. xxxii., xxxiii.; Lev. xxvi.; Numb. xi.; Deut. xxviii.; 2 Sam. xxiv.; 2 Kings xix.; 2 Chron. xx., xxx.; Ezra ix.; Isaiah i., lviii., lix.; Jer. xviii.; Lam., Jer. throughout; Dan. ix.; Joel ii.; Jonah; Zech. vii. Applicable texts.-Deut. xxxi. 17; Neh. ix. 33, 34; Micah vi. 9 ; 1 Pet. v. 6. (Many more occur in the chapters above.) Fasting, an external observance, and well suited to express humiliation and repentance. On this account adopted by almost all nations and ages, but commanded to the Jews, and often visibly blessed by God himself. (See chapters above.) But the outward observance alone a mere mockery. (See ibid., especially Isa. lviii., and Zech. vii.) The heart must go along with it; we must "return unto the Lord." To this end the Prophet commands us to "search and try our ways," (Lam. iii. 40), that is, individually and nationally. Every man must examine his heart; and we must also reflect what are the most prominent natural vices, that we may abstain from committing them. In the former of these instances, each man's conscience must be judge; under the latter, we may particularly include, 1. Infidelity or indifference. The text tells us, that God "hath torn,” and “hath smitten," Deut. xxxii. 39; Job v. 18; Isa. xlii. 24, xlv. 7; Amos iii. 6. This truth overlooked; hence indifference to all religion and religious obligation. 2. Heresy and schism; the former for the most part resulting from the latter. Men, for the merest trifles, break the solemn bonds of Christian unity, and desert their church, John xvii. 11, 21-23; Acts i. 14, ii. 1, iv. 32; Rom. v. 6, xvi. 17; 1 Cor. iii. 3, xii.; Eph. iv. 3-15; Jude 19. Hence the enormous overflow of Popery, which always reproaches Protestantism with want of unity. 3. Desecration of the Sabbath, resulting from the above causes, Neh. xiii. 17, 18; Jer. xvii. 27. Idleness, desertion of the public worship, consequent dissoluteness. 4. Political animosities and divisions, which carry men far from religious thoughts, and supply them with materials of dissension and crime. Allude to the riots at Nottingham and Bristol, Matt. xii. 24. 5. Neglect of Family Religion, Jer. xx. 25. A change of conduct in all these respects properly a "return unto the Lord." Some may be guilty of none of these; yet they will have sins of which it will be needful to repent. We are to sorrow also for national sins, in which we have no immediate personal share, and to pray God to remove and forgive them, Gen. xviii. 23, seqq.; Exod. xxxii. 31; Numb. xi. 1, seqq.; Dan. ix.; 2 Pet. ii. 8. The effect of such prayers may sometimes be the removal of national judgments, or may exempt the true Christian from the calamity, or, at least, from future condemnation, Ezek. ix. 4. LAW REPORT. · NNNNN It has been our general practice to lay before our readers a Report of those proceedings in the Ecclesiastical or other Courts, which seem to bear upon the interests, rights, or duties of the Clergy. In order, however, to furnish such a body of legal information, as may be a guide in cases of doubt and difficulty, we propose to print,, in each succeeding number, one or more of a selection from the opinions and decisions of the most eminent authorities, which have been delivered within the last quarter of a century. We have a kind and able professional friend at our elbow, who will direct our attention to points of prominent importance. ELECTION OF A VICAR. COURT OF CHANCERY, 1826. EDENBOROUGH AND OTHERS v. THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY AND OTHERS. CARTER AND OTHERS v. THE BISHOP OF LONDON AND OTHERS. THE question in these causes was, whether Mr. Fayle or Mr. Pratt, or either of them, had been duly elected vicar of the parish of St. Stephen, Coleman-street. By letters patent, dated the 9th of January, in the 32d year of Queen Elizabeth (reciting other letters patent, dated the 2d of July, in the 24th year of her reign, whereby Her Majesty did grant and demise to Ralph Betts, and John Miles, and the parishioners of the church of St. Stephen in Colemanstreet, in the city of London, and their successors for the time being, the rectory and church of St. Stephen, in Coleman-street, with all its rights and appurtenances, to hold the same to Ralph Betts, and John Miles, then the wardens of the church aforesaid, and to the parishioners of the same church for the time being, from Lady-day then last for twenty-one years, at the yearly rent of 107.) the Queen, in consideration of 3394.12s. to her paid by William Danyell, John Quarles, Theophilus Adams, and Robert Mauncell, did grant to Danyell, Quarles, Adams, and Mauncell, the reversion of the rectory and church, with all its appurtenances, and the advowson and right of patronage of the vicarage and church, to hold the same to them, their heirs and assigns, as of the manor of East Greenwich, by fealty only in free and common soccage. The letters patent did not disclose any trust, except so far as an inference might be raised from the recital of the prior demise; and there was not now in existence any declaration of trust executed by the grantees. It appeared, however, from the parish documents, that the purchase-money had been furnished by the parish, and that the rectory and advowson had been conveyed, from time to time, from one set of feoffees, or trustees, to another. The oldest of these conveyances that could now be found was dated in 1679, and purported to be made "in trust, and for the use and benefit of the parishioners of the parish of St. Stephen, Coleman-street.' The same phraseology was used in the subsequent deeds. In a conveyance to new trustees, dated in 1764, and in the subsequent deeds, an alteration was made in the language in which the trust was expressed; the declaration in them being, that the conveyance was made " as to the rectory and advowson, upon the same trust, and for the same uses, intents, and purposes as the same had been theretofore held, used, and enjoyed by former trustees for the benefit of the said parish of St. Stephen, Coleman-street, but subject and accountable therefore, and for the profits ensuing therefrom, to the parishioners of the said parish, at a vestry or vestries, to be from time to time holden for the said parish." The deeds prior to 1764 did not contain any mention of vestries. The oldest vestry-book commenced in 1622; and it appeared from the entries, that, down to the year 1663, two species of vestries were holden; the one called vestries of committees, the other general vestries. The first entry of an election of a vicar was as follows:-"At a vestry of committees, holden in the church the 7th of December, 1624: At this |