Catholic strangers, every man would bring but a penny to the minister of his parish; the sums thus collected would be sent to the Church Building Society' in London; and then the author of this appeal could assure his countymen that a few short months would realize all that he has above only ventured to hope for.-Appeal on the importance of Building New Churches.

HOLY INTENTION.

HOLY intention is to the actions of a man that which the soul is to the body, or form to its matter, or the root to the tree, or the sun to the world, or the fountain to a river, or the base to a pillar: for, without these, the body is a dead trunk, the matter is sluggish, the tree is a block, the world is darkness, the river is quickly dry, the pillar rushes into flatness and a ruin; and the action is sinful, or unprofitable and vain. The poor farmer, that gave a dish of cold water to Artaxerxes, was rewarded with a golden goblet; and he that gives the same to a disciple in the name of a disciple, shall have a crown but if he gives water in despite, when the disciple needs wine or a cordial, his reward shall be, to want that water to cool his tongue.-Bishop Taylor.

As you wish to profit by sermons, you must come to church, with an humble and teachable temper; submitting to receive instruction, reproof, and advice, from the person whom the providence of God has set over you.-Bishop Wilson.-(From J. G. M's. Adversaria.)

THE CHURCH OF OUR FATHERS.

HALF screen'd by its trees, in the Sabbath's calm smile,

The Church of our Fathers, how meekly it stands!

O villagers, gaze on the old hallowed pile,

It was dear to their hearts, it was rais'd by their hands.

Who loves not the place where they worshipped their God?

Who loves not the ground where their ashes re

pose?

Dear even the daisy that blooms on the sod,

For dear is the dust out of which it arose!

Then say, shall the Church that our forefathers built,

Which the tempests of ages have batter'd in vain,

Abandon'd by us in supineness or guilt,

Oh say, shall it fall by the rash and profane? No! perish the impious hand that would take One shred from its altar, one stone from its towers!

The life-blood of martyrs hath flowed for its

sake,

And its fall-if it fall-shall be redden'd with

ours!

R. STOREY.

No. 94.]

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No. 94.] THE PENNY SUNDAY READER. [Vol. IV.

October 16, 1836.-Twentieth Sunday after Trinity.

MORNING PRAYER-FIRST PROPER LESSON.

Joel ii.

We have beheld the causes of the captivity of the Jews, and the examples which appeared among them before the heathen, during that period. The Church now directs our attention to the dawn of that spiritual redemption, from the captivity of sin and death, to the celebration of which, at Christmas, we are advancing. In the chapters from the three Prophets, from which the next three Proper Lessons are taken, we find gleams of that merciful purpose of God's appearing, like those faint streaks of light which prepare for the twilight, as the twilight itself prepares us for the rising sun. In this point of view, they may be regarded as appropriately going before the more evangelical revelation of Isaiah; as Isaiah's predictions give a clearer light before the appearance of Christ himself. They are indeed, as well as those of Jeremiah and Ezekiel, addressed to the Jews, and treat of their immediate interests, and the causes of their affliction, but their allusions to the Jewish ceremonies, have more of a Gospel spirit, and their expressions point to the coming of a new state of things.

In the present Lesson (v. 1-2), Joel utters an awakening call to repentance, one also which agrees well with the warning of St. Paul, in the Epistle for the day "See that ye walk circumspectly, redeeming

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