... THE SUB-DIACONATB. TO THE EDITOR. —When tbs Bishop of St, Andrew’s appointed nobleman to be lay leader'or sub-deacon, he simply acted upon a recently enacted canon of tho Scotch Church, a copy of which is subjoined. Testimonials signed by communicant* ...

... THE SUB-DIACONATE. .» _ TO THE EDITOR. Sis,— When the Bishop of St. Andrew's appointed a nobleman to be a lay reader or sub-deacon, he simply acted upon a recently enacted canon of the Scotch Church, a copy of which is subjoined. Testimonials signed by ...

... BIRTHS. ANDREWS.* March 6, at _aue, Vloorshedabad, Bengal, the f Samuel James Andrews, ami granddaughter oi I : ?? Hams, 67, Lana owne-place, Brighton, I son. AUSTIN.-16th, the wife of Walter Austin, Esq , of 18, Beat-fort- nur.iens, Lewisham, K. BEET ...

... There is no pulpit in this church, the sermon being delivered from a hand* ome brass eagle. At Chiist Church, Endell street, the decora- tions were particularly chaste, and exhibitod tokens of i great care. In this church, after evenitg prayer at seven ...

... SATURDAY, AUGUST 22. In the House of Lords, last night, Lord Campbell gave notice that on Monday he would move that their lordships should agree to the Commons' amendments to the Sale of Obscene Books and Prints Prevention Bill. The Earl of Shaftesbury ...

... CHURCH NEWS. The vacant canonry of Winchester bas been conferred on the Archdeacon of Huntingdon (the Right Rev. Dr. M'Dougall, formerly Bishop of Borneo), whereby, probably the Bishop Designate of Winchester has solved to a certain extent tbe suffragan ...

... that he had attacked Church schools, and quoted a speech of the Archbishop of Canterbury and a statement of the Committee of the National Society in proof thereof, the latter admitting that no undue pressure had been put upon the Church schools. He dwelt ...

... of which his hon. friend the member for St. Andrew's had complained in his speech — he meant the payment of church-rates by those who dissented from the Church, and the want of accommo- dation in the churches for those who agreed in its doctrines were ...

... been aware that the churches are open, as it has been aware that admirable addresses on Temperance can be heard, if only people will take the trouble to so to them. But as there is a Church work that has to be done outside the churches, so there is a Temperance ...

... Free Churches), the Rev. K. F. Horton (Chairman of Congregational Union of England and Wales), the Rev. Marshall Hartley President of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference), the Rev. F. B. Meyer (President-elect of the National Council Free Churches), the ...

... at a Bazaar on Saturday, in aid of the Sunday School at St. Andrews, Mr. Asquith said that some of the most moving of the memories that attached to that city hovered round the parish church. The pulpit had been filled by many great and wise men, and in ...

... LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, Our Berlin Correspondent telegraphs extract's from the diary of the late Emperor Frederick the publication of which has created :i gn>. v t sensation in Berlin. In Vienna, ulsu, the ptibli- cation has given rise to much ...