AN OLD SUBSCRIBER - There is no doubt but at the Lord's prayer should form the conclusion of the prayer before the sermon, "always concluding with the Lord's prayer." As to the form of prayer, he matter hus 'sera already discussed in these pages. Vide-Editor's Be" V. VII. No. 4. J R-The origin of the white surplice might be traced back to the vestments of the Jewish priests, wie by God's own appointment, were to put on a white aten ephod at the time of peblic service. It is clear, however, that it was used by the primitive Christians, it is referral to by St. Jerome and other early writers. Your upament with your friend resolves mell to tha. The Roman branch of the Church denirea ta's vests from primitive times, and ours for that reason haiged t. It is but a half truth to say "we have hurried it from them." But this view of the question is very incurrect, inasmuch as there is good reason for believing that our form and use of the surpite is more in accordance with primi| Live times than the modern form and use of it in Roman Cathole caries. J W.-The d'rence of plan between the "Editor's Bor" as it was arranged last year and as it is manared now, is simply thre We selected six or seven out of the twenty questions which were asked each month, on the principle of giving as much variety as prebbe to face number. In one way this had its 4mages, but on the whole such a very miscelas collection was not calculated to be of the same servire as a systematic arrangement. Many quests have been asked, during the past two or the year winding to Notes of the Month." These arewberry answered. In November we shall he shle, we bre, to pass on to the Preface and Calendar Er to the Prayer Book. Then we may zurther to the Rubrics, &c., of the Morning hay. We shall still be guided by the questions went by ver ecrrespondents. In the meanwhile we awer many miscellaneous questions in our "Post " that our space forbids us to answer all which we rere.TE. ፡፡ AN OLD SUBSCRIBER-When there is a celebraof the Holy Communion, the omission of the thdhan" is certainly unjustifiable. See what ven the subject in "PENNY POST," Vol. VIII., 23 un the other point the spirit of the Prayer Becky Larly against the practice. At the same Let a case in which an appeal to law is useless. 4 ppeal to reason, modestly expressed, might posely be snecessful. Essry-When it is not practicable, as in many as it is not, to paint on the wall itself, you cannot etter than employ zine. Horz.- It is simply an old English custom to eat eggs on that day; whence it is derived is unwa, further than as implied in our "Note" on Store Tuesday, from the East. Of the symbolism of 3 we have spoken in our first article for this mouth. It is stated by an old writer that eggs were forbidden in some parts to be eaten during Lent. If so, this would most probably give the clue to the day previous to the fast being observed by eating eggs, in the same way that the wretched Carnival is allowed at Rome, Paris, &c., and elsewhere in Roman Catholic countries as an excuse for all sorts of sin, because it precedes a season of penitence. Y. B. W.-Bishop Wilson's is as good as any. "Steps to the Altar" is on many grounds to be recommended. L.-Some writers call Passion week that which begins with the fifth Sunday in Lent, or, as it is called always in the Roman Church, Passion Sunday, i.e. the Sunday on which our Lord predicted His Passion. It is generally understood to refer to the week in which the Passion of our Lord actually took place, and is so used by far the greater part of modern writers (excepting, of course, those who belong to the Roman Church). Dr. Hook, in his Dictionary, says that so calling the week previous to that of the Passion "is a piece of pedantry founded on a mistake." We know no authority for this statement, because the services then begin to refer more especially to the Passion. At the same time it is more natural that the week of the Passion should be called Passion week. It is, however, an undecided question, as authors of repute can be found on both sides. Observe that the Prayer Book does not anywhere make use of the expression. JENA. We think you will find most serviceable the "Selection of Single and Doubic Chants," edited by E. II. Thorne (London, Wells Gardner, 18. 6d.). A correspondent sends us the following inscription, which strikes us as exceedingly simple and beautiful. "In the shop of Mr. Jefferies, bookseller in Redcliffe Street, Bristol (Cannynge's old house), is a stone among the book-shelves with this inscription, Το the Memory of who had not where to lay His head, the unnoticed Poor who sleep in CHRIST. I asked for an account of it, but could obtain none. -N. D." P.S.-We have heard since, that the room was once used for sectarian meetings. The inscription may have been put up then. We may well leave it to its own merits without inquiring into its history. VECTA.--It was stated that Messrs. Betteridge of Birmingham gave £30 for a million of used postage stamps. A few weeks ago, however, the firm wrote to the Times denying the same. We see no reason why they should not be valuable if used for making papier mache, but we have not yet met with persons who are willing to give that sum. No benevolent institution has ever admitted such a rule into its constitution as "that persons are to be admitted on the production of a million stamps." We are requested by a Correspondent to state, that good stencilling patterns of alphabets, and other designs for church decorations, may be obtained at a very moderate charge by applying to B.C, Post Office, Salisbury. We have not seen any of the patterns ourselves, but we believe we recognize in our correspondent's name a gentleman who has paid considerable attention to Mediaval art. J.P. We do not see any use in our answering examination paper questions. We have already, in our last volume, given "Reasons why I love my Prayer Book," (IX., 181) and again, in vol. VII. p. 15, "Reasons for going to Church." SACERDOS.--All we can do is to keep your letter by us, and embrace the first opportunity to follow out your suggestion. It is a matter that requires much care. What we have inserted already in connection with Dissenters' arguments has not met with entire approbation. PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE OLD MASTERS. We have received a very beautiful little set of photographs, and we shall be doing a service to many of our readers, probably, by mentioning that they are to be obtained by sending twenty-four postage stamps to S. B. Beal, 4, Grove Terrace, West Ham, E. There are six different subjects from the Old Masters, connected with the events of the Passion, as follows: 1. The Last Supper-Leonardo da Vinci. 3. Christ Bearing the Cross-Raphael. 4. The Crucifixion-Rubens. 5. The Taking Down from the Cross-Rubens. They are most exquisitely minute as to detail, and bear examination with a magnifier; at the same time the effect is most pleasing, and the quiet softness of colours obtained in Nos. 2 and 6 is much superior to what engraving can produce. The use of such little gems of art will be at once apparent. For presents, neatly mounted aud framed, nothing can be more choice, and few things could more enhance the value of several devotional works than the introduction of this little set of appropriate and suggestive illustrations. Though the whole set of six costs but two shillings, cach one is worth the money. A. J. B.-If you read the second rubric, you will see that the godfathers and godmothers are distinctly mentioned. C. N. -In the account of the Creation in the Bible, the Jewish mode of computation is followed, namely, the day of twenty-four hours is reckoned from the evening of one day to the beginning of another evening-i.c., from sunset to sunset, and that is why "the Evening and the Morning" is written instead of "the Morning and the Evening." C. S.-Your five questions would require an essay of some length to answer satisfactorily. (1) If any part of an ancient church, dating from the 12th century to the end of the 15th, can be shown clearly never to have had colour on it, it is quite the exception. Churches generally in the Middle Ages were coloured from top to bottom-the painted glass in the windows harmonizing with the colour on the wall. The wood-carving was certainly coloured as much as the stone-carving (2) Most of the wood-work remaining to us is of the 15th century, and the colouring to which you refer is probably of the same date. There are many instances of colour having been added (as the style shows) after the date of the carving, and some rare instances of one pattern being found beneath another, and showing that the carving was re-coloured perhaps a hundred years after the first colouring was done. (3) Every authority. It is confined to Gothic. The Mosaics of the 5th and centuries, in Ravenna, &c., are a kind, and indeed most perfect kind, of colouring. (4) Many of the finest pieces of Medieval sculpture seem to have been carved with a view of colouring. It is extraordinary what a difference a little colour (not over-done) males to the foliage of a capital. (5) There is good m rity for gilding, especially for centres of flowers, fe bands dividing colours which would not othercise harmonize together, and for diaper pattern, or any large surface of the same colour.- (P.S.) Than "in tation oak" colouring, such as house-painters aim t excel in, nothing can be more unwarranted. F. O. M.-(1) There is no accounting for many mine inconsistencies in printing the Bible. In the contents to most editions the "St." is omitted in both cases (2) The reply to Query No. 68, was given in the Number following. Letters Received from M.A.-J.M.-A True Churrlwoman-Hamiltonia.-C.G.-Cantab.-E.P.-L.RS. -T.P.T.-J.R.-A Country Rector.-M.A.A.-A.W.— T.B.P.-to some of which the Answers are in type, ERRATUM. In the January No. of the "PENNY POST," for this year, a little Poem was inserted, to which the initials B.G.L. were attached in error, these letters representing the name of the correspondent who sent the poem-which was, in fact, simply ex tracted from the first number of a little periodical entitled "The Portico," (London: "The Portico" Office, 72, Berners Street,) and written by the Editor of that periodical. RECEIVED. S.M.K.-A Rest in the Journey. X.W.P.-The History of Thomas Househam. L.S.-What the Light said. POETRY. T.D.-An Angel wakes the Flowers. C.G.-Hymn for a Birth-Day. IDA.-Peace, He is risen. W.R.W.-Good Friday. Church News Received from S.R.-G.W.P. Books Received.-English Churchman's Signal.Archdeacon Clerke's Charge-Thoughts for Quiet Hours, by M.K.M.-Historical Tales, No. XIII.-Addresses by the Bishop of Oxford.- Little Sins of Daily Life.-Several Pamphlets on the Revision of the Prayer Book. - Single Sermons, by Dr. Moberly, Archdeacon Randall, and Rev. R. Gregory.-Revivalism, by Rev. A. Weir.-God's Prohibition of Marriage with Deceased Wife's Sister, by Dr. Pusey. We would ask Publishers to mark the prices upon the books they send us for review, so that we may name them to our readers. Printed by ▲ H. JACK, 8, Angel Court, Skinner Street. Communications received after the 20th instant cannot be attended to in the next Number, but will be answered or acknowledged in the Number following, L. S. The Trisagion and Tersanctus are the same, the one being the Greek, the other the Latin word. It refers to the hymn in the Communion service, which follows the preface, "Therefore with Angels and Archangels." The hymn itself begins with the word "Holy," repeated three times. SPERO You will see that we have made good use of your "notes" which you have sent, and beg to thank you for them. We, unfortunately, did not receive your letter, with some others, till two or three on the same subject had been already put in type, or we should certainly have printed it. A COUNTRY CURATE.-We have learnt that the insertion of those lessons in the Church Calendar was simply a mistake on the part of the Editor. The first part of the two Calendars is the same. A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. We cannot lay our hand upon any book we can exactly recommend. Nearly all the tracts and books in preparation for Confirmation are written to aid the clergy in preparing candidates, and on the assumption that there is no reluctance on the part of the candidate, Before next month we may be able to find a book suitable. Perhaps, in the meanwhile, however, some correspondent may be able to help us. What is wanted is a book explaining fully the holy rite of Confirmation, and the serious responsibility of willingly neglecting this high and Christian privilege. 2. On the question of administering the Holy Sacrament on Good Friday, there is much difficulty in ascertaining the mind of the Church. There are some reasons for the practice; more, perhaps, against it. M. A. C.-We do not know enough of the matter to decide satisfactorily, but, as far as we can judge from what you write, we think you would not do wrong in acceding to your sister's wishes. State frankly your feeling on the subject to her first. If she still persists in her request, do not refuse. W. C. R.-Earl Nelson's book has been found very practical as a book of Family Devotion. That by the late author of " Daily Steps," though in many respects a very good book, is not found to be so useful. Miss F. See the Epistle to the Philippians, ii. 10. M. A. E.-Mr. Neale has published Hymns for the Sick (6d.), Hymns for Children (9d.), Lays and Legends of the Church of England (28. Gd.). All these are published by Masters. We do not call to mind other collections of poems by that author, though we believe he has written many poems, which have been scattered amongst various publications. J. R. We intended to have answered your question respecting the names of the Sundays during Lent. Invocavit, Reminiscere, Oculi, Laetare, and Judica, are the Latin words which commence the anthems used in the services on these days. Reminiscere, for instance, is the beginning of the fifth verse of the twenty-fifth Psalm Oculi of the fourteenth verse of the same Psalm, i.e., Oculi mei semper ad Dominum. We constantly make use now of the Latin commencement of Canticles, Psalms, &c., e g., the Venite (O Come), the Te Deum (We praise Thee O God), the Vani Creator, &c. BESSIE.-Your first question does not admit of a simple answer. All those questions which relate to the harmony of science with Scripture are very difficult to treat upon, and lead to endless, and often unprofitable discussion. There is nothing in the Scriptures which would necessarily imply that it did not exist before the flood. 2. In reply to your second ques- | tion, we said all we could in our last " "Postbag," colunin 3. DEPOT FOR THE SALE OF LADIES WORK.We have received the following account of an institution which may, perhaps, meet the requirements of several correspondents who have written to us on the subject of disposing of ladies' work. The institution is called "The Royal Charitable Repository," and its rooms are at No. 7, Upper Parade, Royal Leamington Spa. Its object is to afford a place of sale for ladies' work, both for those whom distressed circumstances may lead to wish for a means of procuring assistance from their own talents and industry, and also for those who may like to sell their own works of ingenuity for the benefit of any charity. Of the rules, the chief are, that, 1. Every annual subscriber of one guinen is entitled to recommend one worker, or to have leave to place her own works for one charitable purpose. 2. Any person wishing to benefit by this institution must apply through a subscriber, who will state the case to the treasurer; and if approved by her, the initials will be placed on the books, and work received at any time in future from the person so recommended. Not being acquainted with the practical working of the institution we are not in a position to offer an opinion upon the merits of the plan proposed. A prospectus is issued, giving the full details, which we have no doubt would be forwarded if a stamped envelope were sent to the Conductress at the rooms. A. G. M.-is referred to the above paragraph. for advice. M. A. In the great struggle for moneymaking, and in thousands of instances for even the bare means of livelihood, it is not to be expected that twenty pounds can be made easily otherwise than commercially or professionally. We often have similar applications We can only say, avoid the advertising puffs which appear in the papers stating that by sending such a sum the adventurer will be put in the way of earning, without difficulty, two or three pounds per week. We have never heard of an instance but where the money sent has been simply thrown away. Either no answer at all was returned, or such impracticable-suggestions sent that they were equivalent to no answer. To some of the advertisements "leather work" was the reply. After spending some two or three pounds in tools and materials, and passed Continued on p. 3 of Wrapper. THIS is the former of the two Saints' Days which are beautified with the names of two holy men; the other being the Festival of St. Simon and St. Jude. Concerning St. James, we do indeed know wondrous little; or rather, it is not certain that we know anything at all. About St. Philip, we have fuller information. We know the place of his birth; namely, that he was a fellow-townsman of St. Andrew and St. Peter. We also learn | something about his call to Apostleship; and, from the same chapter of St. John's Gospel, we discover that it was his high privilege to bring another Apostle to Christ. It was of St. Philip, too, that our Saviour asked that remarkable question"Whence they should buy bread ?" to feed the five thousand in the wilderness. At the end of a year, St. Philip's name again occurs in the Gospels; and the connection in which it is found has been deemed so important, that this place of Scripture is appointed by the Church to be the Gospel for the day. When his curiosity gave him a desire to know more of the Divine Nature than. our Saviour was willing to reveal to him, he said, "Lord, show us the Father and it sufficeth us." Our Saviour returns this gentle rebuke, "Have I been so long with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? Ile that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father; and whatsoever ye shall ask in My Name that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son." And, therefore, we pray in the Collect, "O Almighty God, whom truly to know is everlasting life; Grant us perfectly to know Thy Son Jesus Christ to be the Way, the Truth, and the Life." It is because there is "none other Name under Heaven given to Man, in whom, and through whom, we may receive Health and Salvation, but only the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;" and because our Faith in His Name is the foundation of all our Christian Hope; for this reason it is, above all, that Christ is called "the Way!" Hence it is that all our prayers are offered up to the throne of Grace in. His prevailing Name. Hence are His merits urged as often as we address our petitions to Almighty and Everlasting God, St. Philip, the Apostle, was of Bethsaida, in Galilee, near the sea of Tiberias (John i. 44). Our Saviour living in this obscure remote place, was pleased to. choose His disciples out of the plain ordinary men of the neighbourhood, who were mostly fishermen, by reason of the nearness of the sea of Tiberias, which was a great lake well stored with fish. St. Philip was next, after St. Andrew and St. Peter, called to the Apostleship; some think before them. He was the person to whom the Greeks applied themselves that they might have some knowledge of the Messias. After our Saviour's Ascension, he is recorded to have preached the Gospel in the Higher Asia. Some assert, that with St. Bartholomew, he preached to the Scythians. Isidorus says that he converted the Gauls, but he probably means the Gallograeci; or, inhabitants of Galatia. His last preaching before his death was in Hierapolis, a city of Asia Minor, now called Aleppo, where he underwent his martyrdom. He was crucified; and while nailed to the cross, killed by stones thrown at him. The mark of St. Philip, in mediaeval painting and sculpture, is usually the T cross. Sometimes he is represented as carrying a basket with loaves, or loaves only, in allusion to St. John, vi. 5, 7.-E.E. F |
