xii. xiv. 14-26. I Cor. v. xiii. II Cor. iv. I Tim. i. 1517. iii. 1-9. iv. 12.—V. 10.

See also Homilies on the State of Matrimony, and Against Whoredom and Adultery. Also the canons of the Church on Divorce and Prohibited Marriages. Also The "Table of Kindred and Affinity, wherein whosoever are related are forbidden in Scripture and our laws to marry together" and The Marriage Service in the Prayer Book of "the Church of England." Also Bishop Jeremy Taylor's "Holy Living and Dying."

HOUSEHOLD TRIALS.

What

Few positions in life are so full of importunities as that of the mother of a family, or mistress of a house. She may have a dozen interruptions while writing one letter or settling an account. holiness, what self-control is needed to be always calm and unruffled amid these little vexations, and never to manifest the slightest impatience!

Leaving the work without apparent annoyance, replying with a smile upon the lips, awaiting patiently the end of a long conversation, and finally returning calmly to the yet unfinished work-all this is the sign of a recollected soul, and one that waits upon God.

Oh! what blessings are shed around them by such patient souls, but, alas! how rarely they are to be met with? E. L. E. B.

PURITY OF MARRIAGE.

Whatever hypocrites austerely talk

Of purity, and place, and innocence,
Defaming as impure what God declares

Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all,
Our Maker bids increase; who bids abstain
But our destroyer, foe to God and man ?
Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source
Of human offspring, sole propriety

In Paradise of all things common else.

By thee adul'trous love was driven from men
Among the bestial herds to range; by thee,
Founded in reason royal, just and pure,
Relations dear, and all the charities

Of father, son, and brother first were known.
Far be it that I should write thee sin or blame,
Or think thee unbefitting holiest place,
Perpetual fountain of domestic sweets,

Whose bed is undefiled and chaste pronounced, Present, or past, as saints and patriarchs used. Here Love his golden shalfts employs, here lights His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels.-Milton.

R. D. D.

PSALMS xiv. xv. lxv. lvi. lxvii. lxxxi. xciii. xcv. xcvi. xcvii. cvii. cx. cxvi. cxxviii. cxlviii. 8th Selec.

ANTHEMS. Any Text in the Words for the Week.

HYMNS. 34, 45, 152, 157, 162, 169, 190-202 inc. 205, 207, 232, 245, 272, 285, 333, 338, 340, 346, 358, 362, 408, 410, 456, 512, 518.

COLLECTS. Annunc. Epiph. Conv. S. Paul. 3d end of C. O.

JESUS CHRIST Himself being the chief CornerStone. Ephes. ii. 20.

The Church's one foundation

IS JESUS CHRIST her LORD;
She is His new creation

By water and the word:

From heaven He came and sought her

To be His holy Bride;

With His own Blood He bought her,

And for her life He died.

Elect from every nation,

Yet one o'er all the earth,

Her charter of salvation

One LORD, one faith, one birth;

One holy Name she blesses,
Partakes one holy food,
And to one hope she presses,
With every grace endued.

Though with a scornful wonder,
Men see her sore opprest,

By schisms rent asunder,

By heresies distrest ;

Yet saints their watch are keeping,

Their cry goes up, 'How long?' And soon the night of weeping, Shall be the morn of song.

'Mid toil and tribulation,

And tumult of her war,
She waits the consummation
Of peace for evermore,
Till with the vision glorious
Her longing eyes are blest,
And the great Church victorious
Shall be the Church at rest.

Yet she on earth hath union
With God the Three in One,
An mystic sweet communion
With those whose rest is won;
O happy ones and holy!

LORD, give us grace that we,
Like them, the meek and lowly,
On high may dwell with Thee.