Here, my friends, is the secret. If we give our ourselves to Christ, then all we have will follow.-Church Missionary Gleaner.

WHY IS MONEY CALLED STERLING ?-Because in the time of Richard I. money coined in the east part of Germany came in special request in England, on account of its purity, and was called Easterling money, as all the inhabitants of those parts were called Easterlings; and soon after, some of these people, skilled in coining, were sent for to London, to bring the coin to perfection, which was soon called sterling.

Treasury.

THE CARELESS PRIEST.

Look to that period of life when even the unbeliever (Gibbon, the historian) confesses that a browner shade is cast on his declining years by the abbreviation of time and the failure of hope; when even the heathen moralist feels that there is something from within required to support and sustain, to give dignity to the frailty of age, and cheerfulness and comfort to the long and weary hours of unoccupied infirmity; when, as far as relates to our mortal nature and mortal state, all forward-looking thoughts are closed by the grave, which is opening for us, and all mortal hopes are departing from those dreary days when there is no pleasure in them. Tell me what must then be the thoughts of the priest who has deemed lightly of his office and lowered its dignity, by his own neglect or by his own carelessness? What is there with him of the thoughts which cheer and comfort the declining years of other and better men, by setting before them the remembrance of a course of honour and usefulness, of duties performed and good effected? What is there with him but this, that he commenced his course by entering, from the mere hope of lucre, on a profession which he disliked, or lightly respected; that he continued his career by neglecting all its duties but those to which the law compelled him; and that so he closes it, as he deserves, without self-respect, without respect from man or favour from God? He has called himself God's servant, and has stood in his place, and worn his garb, and received his earthly reward, but he has done none of God's work in the world. He has called himself the minister of joy, and health, and salvation to his brethren; but where are the tokens of his ministry? Where are the feeble knees which he has strengthened-where the drooping heart which he has taught to sing for joy-where the soul which he has saved? What can he see but the sinner unconverted, the ignorant left in his ignorance, God not glorified, his kingdom not filled?— Rev. Hugh J. Rose.

At the hour of death we are sent at once into an invisible world: we shall find ourselves in the midst of holy or of unclean spirits; borne away at once into an unknown region, and into the midst of unknown inhabitants-the nations of the saved, or the crowds of damned souls. Blessed is the watchful Christian, for he is ready to enter the unseen regions: he knows he shall not be placed among those whose company and whose character he never loved here upon earth: his soul shall not be gathered with sinners, nor his dwelling be with the workers of iniquity, but with the saints, the excellent in the earth, in whom was all his delight. Every one, when dismissed. from the prison of this body, must go, as the apostles did, when released from the prison at Jerusalem-"must go to their own company"-Judas the traitor "went to his own place;" and the watchful Christian will be disposed among the spirits of the just made perfect-he will find himself in that blessed society at his dismission from flesh and blood. Read and see what a glorious society it is" To the innumerable company of angels, the general assembly and church of the first-born, who are written in heaven, to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant." The apostle says we are come to them already; that is, by the covenant of grace, as administered under the Gospel, we are brought into a blessed union with them, in spirit and in temper, even in this life; we are members of the same body, we are united to the same head, and made parts of the same household, though we are not yet brought home; but at death we are actually present with them, and dwell and converse among them with holy familiarity, as citizens of the same heavenly Jerusalem, as parts of the same sacred family, and at home, as children of the same God, and in their Father's house. The watchful Christian is at once carried into the midst of the blessed world by ministering angels-the world where Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob dwell, and made a speedy partaker of their blessedness.-Dr. Watts.

O friend! I beseech thee, mind this: O come to the true root-come to Christ indeed! Rest not in an outward knowledge; but come to the inward life, the hidden life, and receive life from him, who is the Life; and there abide and live to God, in the life of his Son. For death and destruction, corruption and vanity, may talk of the fame of Christ, who is the wisdom of God; but they cannot know nor find out the place where this wisdom is revealed-they cannot come at the true, pure fear, which God puts into the hearts of his. This is the beginning of true wisdom, which cleanses darkness and impurity out of the hearts of those to whom it is given. For

light expelleth darkness; life expelleth death; purity expelleth impurity; Christ, where he is received, bindeth and casts out the strong man, taking possession of the heart. And if any man be truly and really in Christ, he comes to witness a new creation, even the passing away of old things, and all things becoming new.

Did Christ overcome the devil in that body of the flesh, and shall he not overcome him in the hearts of his children, by the power of his Spirit? Therefore wait to feel the Spirit and power of Christ, saving thee from that which nothing else can save thee from, and bringing that down in thee under his feet which nothing else can bring down.

O abide in the simplicity that is in Christ-in the naked truth that ye have felt there; and there ye will be able to know and distinguish your food, which hath several names in Scripture, but is all one and the same thing:-the bread, the milk, the water, the wine, the flesh and blood of Him that came down from heaven (John vi. 48); it is the same, only it is given forth weaker and stronger, according to the capacity of him that receiveth it; and so hath different names given to it accordingly. O keep out of that wisdom which knoweth not the thing: for that is it which also stumbles about the names. Keep to the principle of life-feed on that which was from the beginning. Letters of Isaac Pennington, Extract from the Bible Student, No. 1.

How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
In a believer's ear!

It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds,
And drives away his fear.

It makes the wounded spirit whole,

It calms the troubled breast;

'Tis manna to the hungry soul,

And to the weary rest.

Dear name! the Rock on which I build!

My shield and hiding-place

My never-failing treasury, filled

With boundless stores of grace.

Jesus! my shepherd, husband, friend,
My prophet, priest, and king;
My Lord, my life, my way, my end,
Accept the praise I bring.

Weak is the effort of my heart,

And cold my warmest thought;
But when I see thee as thou art,
I'll praise thee as I ought.-Newton.

Church Notices

FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE.

June 2. TRINITY SUNDAY.—We celebrate on this day the doctrine of the Holy Trinity-Three Persons in One Godhead. Our faith in this doctrine is declared by our Church, on the authority of Scripture, to be necessary to everlasting salvation. Doubtless, this is a great mystery; but there are many things, even in the visible creation, which are far beyond our comprehension it is not wonderful, therefore, that in the nature of God, and his plan of restoring his lost creatures, there should be things above man's understanding.

June 11. ST. BARNABAS, THE APOSTLE.-Barnabas is an additional name, signifying, The Son of Consolation, given to Joses or Joseph, who has in the Acts the title of Apostle. (See Acts iv. 36, 37). He made many journeys with St. Paul, and laboured with him in preaching the Gospel of Christ to the heathen world. Barnabas was chosen as a fit person to settle the form and discipline of the Church at Antioch, in Syria, where the disciples of Jesus Christ were first called Christians, A.D. 43.

June 24. ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST'S DAY.-St. John, the son of Zacharias and Elizabeth, was the forerunner of the Saviour. He was called Baptist because he baptized, in the waters of the river Jordan, those who came to him, and confessed their sins, wishing to lead pure lives. The Baptist bore witness of Jesus, saying, "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." St. John was beheaded, by direction of Herod, at the instigation of Herodias, because he had "boldly rebuked vice."

June 29. ST. PETER'S DAY.-Simon, son of Jonas, was a fisherman of Bethsaida, and one of the twelve apostles of Christ. His declaration, that Jesus was the Christ, the Son of God, procured for him, from our Lord, the appellation of Peter, or Cephas, two names which mean rock. St. Peter, it is generally supposed, suffered martyrdom on the same day with St. Paul, in the year 67, and was crucified with his head downward.

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The Editor begs to acknowledge the letter of his correspondent "Enquirer," referring to line 6, page 96, of The Churchman's Magazine and Village Churchman, and to say, that in an early number the subject referred to shall be fully explained.

W. E. Painter, 342, Strand, London, Printer.

THE founder of Bath Abbey was Osric, king of Huicera, one of the warlike chieftains of the seventh century. The Saxon kings, in succession, gave grants and privileges to the abbey, until, about 1106, Henry I. renewed and extended the grant of his predecessor to the Bishop of Bath, who gave it in the following curious charter :-"In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, I, John, by the grace of God, Bishop of Bath, to all bishops my successors, and to all sons of the holy Church, greeting. Be it known unto you all, that, for the honour of God and of St. Peter, I have laboured, and at length effected, with all decent authority, that the head and Mother Church of the bishopric of Somerset shall be in the city of Bath, in the church of St. Peter; to which holy apostle and the monks his servants I have restored their lands, which I formerly held unjustly in my own hands, in as free and ample manner as Alsius, the late abbot, held them before me; and if I have improved them, and whatsoever of mine shall be found thereon,