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OUR report this month will be, if possible, of a more encouraging character than usual. The Bishops of Calcutta, Madras, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Australia, give, by their letters to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, very gratifying proofs of the blessings which have attended the efforts of our Church to make known, both in the east and the west, the principles of her pure and apostolic faith.

The Hon. East India Company have presented £40,000 to the Bishop of Calcutta, towards the erection and support of the new cathedral there; and the directors have acknowledged publicly that it is the duty of Government to providh adequately for its civil and military functionaries the means and services of our religion. This has been hitherto not only in the Colonies, but at home, left to the exertions of the clergy; and as a proof how willing they are to "spend and be spent" for the service of religion, we make the following extract from a letter on behalf of the National Society, by the Rev. John Sinclair, the Secretary:

"A curate has actually told me that of his income of 100l. a-year, for the first two years he had given one-half to repair a church, and the other half to build a school. In another instance, a curate writes that he had 'put down his name for 30%. out of his pittance as an example;' but I am obliged to add, with shame, that he could not prevail upon the proprietors and capitalists of his parish to follow him. In numerous instances, the incumbent builds and maintains the school entirely at his own expense, and only applies for a master or mistress. The rector of a small living writes, that he is ready to give 301. a-year towards the maintenance of his school; adding, as a claim to aid, that he subscribes both to the National Society and to the Diocesan Board. A curate in Wales offers 201. towards a school; and pledges his vicar, almost as poor as himself, to give 207. more. Another clergyman, in the north of England, has raised 8507. in subscriptions towards a building estimated at 18007., and makes himself responsible for the deficiency. 'I do not think,' he says, 'my people would let me go to jail; but there are many inconveniences short of that which it would be desirable to avoid.' Another in the south has paid out of his own pocket 2501, for the site of a school. A third writes, I have expended more than 5001, which amounts to nearly three years' clear profits of my living.' Others write that they have advanced 1007.;' or that they have taxed their own means to the utmost;' or that they have contributed till they are quite exhausted;' or that they have made themselves 'responsible for the whole expense of the undertaking.' The incumbent of a district church states, that he has only 30l. a-year,' and yet that 'with a family of eight children, he has 'incurred liabilities to the amount of 801., exclusive of fittings up.' In some instances, a clergyman asks for aid in establishing a day school, of which he himself, or some members of his family, are to be the daily teachers. exemplary parochial minister in a remote district makes this pathetic appeal :"I have been diligently and faithfully instructing the poor children ever since I came to reside in the parish, in reading, writing, arithmetic, the elements of English grammar, and in the principles of Christian knowledge, as taught in our excellent catechism. For this purpose I hired a school room, which was unfortunately sold about two years ago. I, however, being determined to persevere in the good work which I had undertaken, fitted up a neat granary in my own yard as a temporary school room, where I am labouring every day to do what good I can to the rising generation. I cannot have a fire; but I light a fire in my kitchen during winter, as the school is not many yards from it, and my parishioners have sent me five quarters of coal for the purpose.'

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This Society is, we are happy to say, going on well, and we can cordially recommend it to all friends of the Church.

The Church Pastoral Aid Society is also making steady progress in its career of usefulness.

The Committees for the months of August and September voted grants for eight additional clergymen and one lay assistant. The Society now aids 275

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incumbents, having under their charge an aggregate population of 2,025,456; or each, on an average, the charge of 7,365 souls, while the average amount of their incomes is only 1627.; and 135 of these incumbents are without parsonage. houses. Previous to the aid of the Society, only 309 clergymen were engaged in the pastoral care of the above stated population. The existing grants are to provide stipends for 290 clergymen and 45 lay assistants, at a charge to the Society, when all the appointments shall be made by the incumbents, of 26,1067. per annum. Two hundred and twenty-one clergymen and forty lay assistants are now supported in their important labours by the Society, at a charge of 20,3417. per annum.

Nor is the progress in church building less satisfactory. New churches have in the course of the last six weeks been founded at Golden Hill, in the Potteries; at Hill Top, West Bromwich; at Coventry; at Beacon Hill, Bath; and at Shaftesbury. A subscription has been commenced for a new church at Oldham, near Manchester; a new church consecrated at Cann, St. Rumbold; another at Norton le Clay, near Boroughbridge; and the churches of St. Thomas, Compton Vallance, and St. Wronard's, Herefordshire, have been re-opened; and, as might be expected, a greater attention is paid to the rites of the church.

The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol has just finished a series of confirmations, in which upwards of 6,000 persons have been thus brought forward to renew their baptismal vows, and 1,600 have been confirmed by the Bishop of Lichfield. In Scotland, too, the principles of the Church are becoming better understood, and there has been for some time in agitation amongst the influential members of the Episcopal Church of Scotland a plan of erecting an Episcopal College in Edinburgh, where a course of study similar to that pursued in the English Universities will be adopted. At a convocation of the Bishops, which was held there lately, the subject was taken into consideration, and measures, we believe, are now in progress for the establishment of an institution, which cannot fail of diffusing amongst the numerous increasing body of Episcopalians in Scotland more accurate knowledge of the principles of the Apostolic Church to which they belong; but still more interesting are the accounts from Ireland-that unhappy country where Popery in its worst and most unmitigated form prevails; yet it is, we trust, on the decline; and we copy from the Limerick Chronicle, what that journal well denominates—an interesting scene ;

"On Monday, Sept. 28, the Bishop of Limerick, accompanied by his chaplain, the Rev. R. Maunsel, rector of Castle Island, and the Rev. A. Denny, rector of Tralee, attended divine service at Ventry. The congregation, with the exception of several visitors from England, was entirely composed of converts from the Church of Rome, in number 250. The service was performed and a sermon preached in the Irish language, by the Rev. Thomas Moriarty, himself a convert, and minister of the congregation. Service was concluded by his lordship's addressing the congregation, exhorting them to stand fast in the truth of the Gospel, and by purity of life and conversation to manifest the sincerity of their profession. He expressed himself highly gratified with the evident reality of this important work, and particularly with the answering of the children in the Sunday School. In the evening his lordship preached to a crowded congregation in Dingle, including more than one hundred converts, inhabitants of the town."

Miscellanea.

JESUITS. It has been said that there are various parts of the country into which the Jesuits are insinuating and locating themselves. Whether the statement be true or not it is difficult to decide. Their influence with Charles X. of France is well known, and the cause of his overthrow the following may be relied on as true. This monarch placed himself so completely under their controul, that he was unable to decide upon any measure submitted to him by his ministers, until he had taken the advice of the Jesuits about him, whose

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influence was not only supreme with him, but prevailed in every family, the motions of any member of which were watched by the female servants, who made their communications to the priests at confession. This secret agency gave rise to perpetual jealousies and suspicions. The object of the Jesuits was to get back the influence of days of old-in short, that the Church might govern the State, and make it subservient to its own aggrandizement. This Charles X. might not have seen to this extent, or might not have understood the intentions of his Church, which was not to serve him but itself. This machinery or foolery caused the revolution, and cost him his crown.

THE MONUMENT OF WICKLIF.-It is well known that the town of Lutterworth is distinguished as the place in which Wicklif, the first Translator of the English Bible, passed his latter years. The rectory being in the gift of the Crown, was procured for him through the influence of his patron John of Gaunt; and there, in the midst of his parishioners, whom he had faithfully warned and taught, he was permitted, after a stormy and troubled life, to breathe his last in peace. The spot in which his mortal remains rested, till, by the memorable decree of the Council of Constance, they were disinterred and burnt, may be well deemed hallowed ground; and accordingly some of the inhabitants of the place conceived the idea, many years ago, of marking it by the erection of a suitable monument in the chancel of their church. Their local subscription was liberally aided by the contributions of other persons, who felt that to do honour to such a name belonged not to his townsmen only, but to the country at large; and a sum of more than five hundred pounds was collected for the purpose. The work was entrusted to the hands of Mr. Westmacott, jun., the son of the eminent sculptor of that name, and soon completed and fixed in its place. It is an alto relievo, and the design, which is executed with great spirit and taste, tells very graphically the story of the reformer's life. The preacher is represented in the centre as expounding the Scriptures, which lie open before him, to a group of attentive listeners. The wondering peasant, the student with his downcast and pensive looks, the man at arms, the rising youth, the mother with her babe, are seen drinking in the words of eternal life, now at last thrown open to them, after been buried for centuries in the obscurity of an unknown tongue. On the other side, in contrast with the approving audience, are seen a pair of mendicant friars, whose looks of indignation and defiance declare plainly the feeling with which they regard the speaker. If he has the hearts of the people for his own, it is clear that he has earned, on the other hand, the bitter hatred of the men who had so successfully imposed upon their credulity.

On the first of January next, will appear a New Series of

THE CHURCHMAN;

A MAGAZINE IN SUPPORT OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

Arrangements have been made with the proprietors of "THE CHURCHMAN," in order that the profits of that Magazine may be devoted to the relief of the Widows and Orphans of the Clergy. Considering how many periodicals have been established by Churchmen, all of which have been private, and many of them lucrative speculations, there seems every reason to expect that a considerable sum may be raised annually for the purpose, and by the means above mentioned.

The management of the Magazine will be entrusted to a Committee consisting chiefly of Clergymen, and the distribution of the profits to another, consisting entirely of Incumbents of Parishes. It is intended not to establish any new Society, but to divide the profits of the Magazine among the Diocesan Societies already organized for the same purpose.

Provisional Committee of Management.
Professor Ansted, M.A., F.G. S., &c.
Rev. Henry Christmas, M.A., F.S.A.
Rev. J. Bathurst Deane, M. A., F.S. A.
Rev. Daniel Haigh, M.A.
Rev. Robert Irvine, M. A

Rev. Alphonsus W. H. Rose, M. A.
Rev. G. Weight, M.A., F.R. A. S., &c.
Rev. Robert Aris Wilmott, M. A.
Rev. John Williams, M.A.

Provisional Committee of Distribution.
Rev. J. W. Whittaker, D.D. Vicar of
Blackburn.

Rev. J. S. Allen, M. A. Vicar of
Easingwold.

[This Committee will be shortly filled up and published in the December number.]

Rev. W. Dealtry, D.D., F.R. S., F. R. A. S., &c. Auditors.

Rev. J. W. Whittaker, D.D.

Rev. Henry Christmas, M.A., F.S. A., Secretary.

(With power to add to their number.)

A portion of the Magazine will be devoted to Correspondence; and as the publication will be committed to no party, it is offered to the Clergy as an eligible medium for communicating their sentiments to their brethren. The large circulation which is to be hoped for the Magazine will give it a peculiar value in this respect.

So many promises of support have been received already, and these too from writers of the very first eminence, that no doubts can be entertained as to the excellency of the contents of the Magazine. The object is to present the public with a Miscellany-religious, but not exclusively theological; acceptable to all Churchmen, but taking no part in the discussion of theological controversies carried on within the Church. No anonymous contributions will be permitted to appear, save reviews of books; these will be invariably by members of the first-mentioned Committee, so that, in fact, NOTHING will be anonymous.

Historical Research-Poetry-Philosophy-Matters of Antiquarian Interest -Literature, English and Foreign-The Fine Arts-Statistics, Civil and Religious-all will come in turn under the notice of the Magazine, while there will be a sufficient preponderance of decidedly theological matter to characterize the Magazine as a religious publication.

Among the contributors to the pages of "THE CHURCHMAN," in addition to the members of the Committee, will be

The Rev. S. J. Allen, M.A.
The Rev James Brogden, M. A.
The Rev. Professor Browne, M.A.
The Rev. Charles Burton, LL.D
The Rev. T. E. Hankinson, M.A.
The Rev. Thomas Lathbury, M. A.
The Rev. Rob. Montgomery, M.A.
The Rev. James Rudge, D.D.
The Rev. F. H. Scrivener, M.A.

Mrs. Abdy

G. L. Browne, Esq. B. C.L.
A. Crosse, Esq. M.A., Broomfield.
Joseph Fearn, Esq.

J. M. Neale, Esq. M.A. Fellow and
Tutor of Downing College, Cam.
P. Parnell, Esq.

Professor Schmitz, M.A:

Mrs. E. Smith, &c. &c.

The Rev. F. B. Gourrier, B. C.L. (Ministre de l'Eglise Anglicane, à Paris) has engaged, as a corresponding member of the Committee, to transmit to the Secretary accounts of all events interesting to the Church which may transpire on the Continent.

The Committee fully rely on the support of their Clerical brethren in carrying out their design; and will furnish such friends with Prospectuses to circulate in their respective parishes.

A large addition to the circulation will be necessary to meet the great increase of expense attending this change, and such large increase is confidently expected. Communications are to be addressed to the Committee, at the office of "THE CHURCHMAN," 342, Strand, where subscribers names will be received; and by the Booksellers in every town in the kingdom.

W. E. PAINTER, STRAND, LONDON, PRINTER.

THANKS be unto God it has been declared in the heavens and revealed on the earth, that as none less than an Almighty Being could save man, the Son of God himself has condescended to "leave the beauteous realms of light," and lay his glory by, and endure the penalty required for the expiation of the sins of the world. We turn our eyes upon the pages of Scripture, and the eastern star of divine truth guides us to Bethlehem, where we see the Saviour in the likeness of flesh. Man had sinned, and death had been doomed as his punishment. The Saviour, therefore, fulfilled the broken law and paid the price, even his most precious blood. He had not sinned, therefore was not subject to the law; but he fulfilled all righteousness that he might justify the world through his obedience. The law had no claim upon Christ-" he had no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth." As human nature had sinned, so human nature must suffer; and Christ became man that he might show his obedience to the will of God, and endure his wrath in the place of sinners; and his godhead supported him in his labour and carried him away the victor. Had he been but God, humanity would have had no interest in his sufferings, for he could not save that nature which he did not take; and had he been but man, his sufferings would have been without efficacy, as man is not able, as we have seen, to fulfil the law, being himself under its curse. He came,

therefore, as God, because none but God could redeem; and he came also as man, that he might redeem the human nature which he took. The doctrine of the incarnation of Jesus is clearly stated in the second Article of our Church: "The Son, which is the Word

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