only to be broken.

I have long

expected such a fate, and only am grieved to be less pretty, for my little master's sake. But, tell me, how you received such wounds?" "How you preach," said the illtempered soldier, "but do not suppose that I am a doll, and made only to be broken. I am a soldier, and I got wounded in a terrible battle, after I had myself killed nearly three regiments of the enemy. It is a glorious thing to die in the service of one's country." "Yes," said an old grey horse, who with one ear, and his mane gone, was lying near, "but all that is not true; I saw you when you would not fight, but kept standing stock still, staring before you, and so your master beat you, and pulled off your beard and your cap, and knocked you against a table, till your arm and leg were broken. is clear you are nothing but a wooden doll, and a coward, in spite of all your boasting."

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Replies.-M. W. J--- a Churchman, Maidstone; it may be more convenient to write privately to you, perhaps you will tell us how to address you. G. R. C---; the subject has been in our mind. P. O-; we intended from the first to notice the subject, but are not the less obliged to you for your suggestions; possibly we may insert such a paper in our next number. J. E. W--; we hope in our next. M. L--; your Paper for Easter-day came too late. As a rule communications intended for a particular number must be in our hands one month previously. G. M. P-; we had thought of your first sug

gestion. Our March number contained an Article on the other point you mention; it was meant for the first of a series which we regret to be obliged to postpone for the present. H. L---; may send.

In reply to several communications which we have received, respecting the Note upon Passion-Week in p. 76 of our last number, we beg to say that the statement is not new though it may be so to some of our readers. The Sunday before Palm-Sunday was anciently called Passion-Sunday, and the week following, the Great-Week or Holy-Week, though it was also called Passion-Week. This is still the case in all other parts of the Church we believe. Two Correspondents who think that the Note contradicts the Church of England and Wheatly, will, we think, on reflection, own that they are mistaken: true the Prayer-Book does not call the Fifth Sunday in Lent, Passion-Sunday, but neither does it give that name to the week before Easter: there is, however, a remarkable change in the tone of the Services for the fifth week in Lent, the Epistle directing us to the One Great Sacrifice about to be offered, and the Gospel speaking of the Divinity of Him Who is our Sacrifice.

Wheatly distinctly says, "the Fifth Sunday in Lent is by the Latins especially, often called Passion-Sunday."---though he goes on to say, "I think that would be a more proper name for the Sunday following." The Note in question preferred to give the general teaching of the Universal Church.

It will probably be satisfactory if we add the following extracts from so impartial a work as Sir Harris Nicolas's Chronology of History, (Second Edition, 1838), p. 79, he calls the Sunday before Palm Sunday "Passion or Carle-Sunday;" p. 120, "Dominica in Passione Domini. Passion-Sunday, the Fifth Sunday in Lent. The term is sometimes applied to all the Sundays in Lent."

"A Churchman," whose letter appeared in our last number, is referred by R. P. the Writer of the Papers on the Royal Supremacy, to the Article in the same number,---he will find his question there replied to.

We regret that pressing duties at this season have delayed our replying to several Correspondents whose friendly letters manifest a real interest in the success of the Magazine.

COMING of THY perfect and entire KINGDOM! Would that the love of THY KINGDOM Wwere so planted in our hearts, as to leave no room for the vain and transitory things of this world to take root and grow! | Would that our condition, as a nation as a nation, O God, could rouse heaven and earth in our be half, that Thou wouldst mercifully forgive the sins of a people, pitifully behold the sorrows of a kingdom, and turn Thy face from our misdeeds! Lord that Thou wouldst

in THY KINGDOM. Oh! may THY KINGDOM COME! THY KINGDOM of grace and glory-when will be an eternity without stain-sunshine without cloud-yea, all praise and fulness of joy in the Holy Ghost for ever and ever! Through merci. ful power and powerful mercy may we be preserved unto it.

For Thine is the KINGDOM, the Power and the Glory, for ever and ever!! Amen.

PAPERS.

Lord God Almighty! would that Thou wouldst stretch forth Thy Hand upon the furiousness of our adversaries, and save us with the strength of Thy Right Hand-that Thou wouldst undertake for us, by granting us such an outpouring of Thy Holy Spirit as might meet the pressing need of present danger, and, though we walk in the midst of trouble, yet refresh us!!

If it please Thee, hasten the unity and fulness of Christ's Body when Jews and Gentiles shall be all ONE, that glorious time when all Thy works shall glorify Thee, and the wrath of men praise Thee! At home and abroad, may ways be opened for revealing Thy Son to those who sit in the shadow of death, for causing Thy Gospel to shine in the dark places and corners of the earth; may means be devised for turning men from darkness to light--from the power of Satan to God! Hasten, Oh God, hasten that glorious time when Thou wilt be our Everlasting Portion and Rich Inheritance, and all our chequered peace for ever swallowed up in peaceful security.-fearless safety

It is certain that words in print have a greater influence on the minds of most people, than words merely written.

We do not wish to inquire into all the causes of this influence: one cause, perhaps, occurs readily to any body, namely, that people entertain a sort of general notion, that men would not print that which was not worth the printing, and forget that, if this were true, they might as well go a little further, and say at once, that men only read that which is worth reading.

Now, really it is worth every reader's while to give, from time to time, a few minutes' thought to this subject.

For it may be broadly said, that the state of the case is, that, if we had leisure to read all that is published throughout this kingdom in the course of the week, and judgment to discern good from bad in the pages we read, we should find that there is comparatively little printed which merits our serious attention that the greater part is unworthy of a wise man's timethat a large part is positively untrue, and likely to mislead the unlearned-that, alas! no small part is absolutely iniquitous, likely, nay almost certain, to lower the right

feelings of those who put their trust in such writings, or even quite certain to debase their minds, and to corrupt all Christian purity.

But this article is headed-a word about Newspapers; for the remarks just made apply to this class of printed works very forcibly.

For newspapers possess a great interest for intelligent people, and have a very great sale, and help, beyond all question, to form and to direct public opinion.

Now some of our English newspapers are very surprising works, every day or every week, information, and often very good information, is collected from all parts of the world, and brought immediately under our particular observation, as we sit comfortably by our fire-sides.

And it oftentimes happens that, besides facts and anecdotes, we have wise opinions, written by men able to form a good judgment upon the passing affairs of the world."

This is frequently the case, but -not to speak of those baser publications, which are the scandal of our generation,-it often happens that the so-called facts and anecdotes contained in these periodicals are not true, and still more often, that the judgments formed upon them are formed by irreligious, shallow, and ill-learned persons.

And shall these be our teachers? Just consider, good reader, that the first object of the editor of a newspaper is to secure for it a good sale; just consider that you know nothing about the character of those who write in it; and then, putting these considerations together, reflect how often designing men may, for the sake of gain, endeavour to impose upon the world false for true, and how very often they write with a kind of authority upon subjects on which they are wholly unqualified, from want of knowledge, to pass any opinion whatsoever.

Above all, is it not very:

ridiculous

to trust to newspapers for the formation of our opinions on Religious subjects? and to search for the foundation of Christian Belief in columns dressed up for the popularity of the hour, where Religion is frequently made to serve the ends of the politician, and where want of rule and subordination is but a mockery of that true liberty, which only exists where there is Christian order and obedience.

When will our people learn, that what is called "Divinity" is not of human creation, nor can be altered by human ingenuity, but is emphatically "Divine." G.

THE good King Louis XII. of France, was styled the father of his people. An old chronicler relates, that when he died even the little children wept bitterly for his loss. The following anecdote shews that these regrets were not unmerited. An officer of his household, had, in a fit of anger, ill-treated a poor labourer; when the king heard of the offence, he ordered that the noble who had committed so gross an injustice, should only have his table served with meat and wine. The next day Louis met the officer, and asked him if he had fared well. "Sire," he replied, "I had no bread to eat." "What!" said the king, "cannot you do without bread?" "No, truly, sire," answered he. "You jest," said Louis, "bread is not necessary to sustain life." "Your majesty will excuse me, but we should feel the loss of it a great deprivation." "Why then,' swered the king, sternly, "did you beat the poor labourer; is it not to them that we are indebted for the bread we eat? Remember this in future, a repetition of the like fault will be punished more severely."

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