sands, what might not be expected from a Church Mission, promoted at home and assisted by our brethren in India? What might we not do from Macao? What have we done there? What might we not do at and from Canton ?

We grant the exclusive nature of the people, and the exclusive institutions and laws by which they are governed; but if, nevertheless, Budd'hism could force an ingress, and number its thousands of votaries—if the religious parties which we have named have been able to proceed so far as they have, the objection is silenced by these examples; and proof is given, that what they have done we of the Church of England also may do, nay, do with tenfold effect. We trust that our Society will direct their zeal to this immense territory, and that, by means of the influence, funds, and power which they possess, the Church of England will shortly take the lead in proselytizing China and the neighbouring countries. The time must arrive when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea: should we not strive to advance it ?

SINGULAR FACT CONNECTED WITH THE JEWS.

What the prophet, speaking with the authority of inspiration, foretold, subsequent times and events have precisely developed. Such particular and specific consummations of the several prophecies, demonstrate the unchangeable character of the Divine word, which shall not return unto him, but perform that to which he sends it.

With relation to the singular people the Jews, the general facts of their dispersion among all nations are well known, and need not be repeated. Although the extract subjoined does not verify any particular prophecy, the singularity of the circumstance has been recorded, and noticed by two eminent writers.

Lord Royston says, with reference to Koraz-bazar, "This place is remarkable for being the only Jewish town without a mixture of Christians in the world. They are all manufacturers, and sell their wares through the Crimea, and are generally esteemed for an honourable people. They are of the sect called Karaites, and look on the Jews as heretical; for they acknowledge only the text of the Old Testament, and reject the traditions which the others consider of equal force with the law. This circumstance led me to imagine that their name was derived from the Hebrew Kara, (to read); whereas I am well convinced it is from the Turkish Kara (black); for they wear a long black dress peculiar to themselves, and the name of their town in Tartar or Turkish, which are only different dialects, means 'the Black Market.' They have settled in Crim Tartary from time immemorial, and assert that they settled there before the Babylonish captivity, which I myself am inclined to believe, for they not only reject the Rabbinical interpretations, but also the Chaldee paraphrase, which was necessary after the return from Babylon, when the people had forgotten Hebrew."

Of the same colony Dr. E. Clarke speaks thus: "We are highly interested by the singularity of having found one Jewish settlement, perhaps the only one upon earth, where that people exist separate from the rest of mankind, in the free exercise of their ancient customs and peculiarities."

Can the history of this extraordinary people be examined without impressing the mind with the exact and determinate fulfilment of ancient prophecy, and leave the mind unconvinced of the as certain retribution on national irreligion, as on individual transgression?

J. F. S.

Sayings and Doings of Old Time.

MEMORABLE BEQUEST.

A citizen of Berne, in Switzerland, who had grown rich by habits of persevering industry, being advanced in years, made a will of the following tenor, viz.:

Being anxious for my fellow citizens of Berne (who have often suffered by dearth of corn and wine), my will is, that, by the permission of Providence, they shall never for the future suffer under the like calamity; to which end and purpose I give my estate, real and personal, to the senate of Berne, in trust for the people, that is to say, that they receive the produce of my estate until it shall come to the sum of (suppose two thousand pounds); that then they shall lay out this two thousand pounds in building a town house, according to the plan by me left; the lower story whereof to consist of large vaults or repositories for wine; the story above I direct to be formed into a piazza for such persons as shall come to market at Berne, for disposing of their goods free from the injuries of the weather; above that I direct a council-chamber to be erected, for the committee of the senate to meet in, from time to time, to adjust my accounts, and to direct such things as may be necessary for the charity; and above the council-chamber as many floors and granaries as can be conveniently raised, to deposit a quantity of corn for the use of the people, whenever they shall have occasion for it. And when this building shall be erected, and the expense of it discharged, 1 direct the senate of Berne to receive the produce of my estate until the same shall amount to the sum (suppose two thousand pounds); and when the price of corn shall be one fourth part under the mean rate of the last ten years, they shall then lay out one thousand pounds in corn and stow it in my granaries; and the same in wine, when under one fourth of the mean rate of the last ten years. And my will is, that none of the said corn and wine shall be sold until the price of corn and wine shall exceed, at the common market, one fourth of the mean rate of the last ten years, and then every citizen of Berne shall demand daily (or proportionably weekly) as many pounds weight of wheat and as many pints of wine, as he has mouths in his family to consume, and no more; and that, for the same, he pay ready money after the mean rate that it had been for the last ten years, a due proportion being allowed for waste, and that to be settled by the senate; and that each householder shall be so supplied as long as the price of corn and wine shall continue above the rate of one fourth more than the mean rate; and whatsoever increase shall be made of the capital, it shall be laid out under the same restrictions, in adding to the stock of corn and wine, which, under the blessing of God, will, I hope, in a certain time, reduce these two necessary articles of life to very near a fixed price, to the glory of God and benefit of the poor."

For nearly two hundred years this patriotic provision had subsisted, when an English merchant, returning from Aleppo, by Berne, was so struck with the good effects it had produced, that, on his return home, he settled a sum of money for the use of the poor at Kingston-on-Thames, for the purchase of coals in the same manner. The Right Honourable Arthur Onslow, Speaker of the Honourable House of Commons, and Nicholas Hardinge, Esq., were two of the trustees, under whose auspices the poor were abundantly supplied and the fund greatly augmented.

ALL beings, according to the system of Zerdush or Zoroaster, were created by Ormuzd uttering the word Honover: comparing this legend with the Jewish Mimra, the early Christian heretics, the Gnostics, derived their singular theories of the Logos, which Plato and others had before introduced into Greece. All this is to be retraced to the first chapter of Genesis, where Moses introduces God as speaking and saying yehi (let it be): for example, let there be light!

CREUZER (Symb. und. Myth. d. a. Volker 1, 305), offers a curious etymology

of the word pyramid, which has occasioned an infinity of conjectures. He says that the name of the Egyptian monarch, after he had been initiated into the mysteries, was Piromi, in Coptic, which he interprets the kaλòs kȧyalós of Herodotus: hence, that the royal sepulchral chambers should be called after this title is not improbable.

Correspondence.

THE LATE MR. JUSTICE PARK ON ADDITIONAL CHURCHES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE CHURCHMAN.

Hawkchurch Rectory, January 8, 1839. SIR,-The following letter was addressed to me some time since, by the late Mr. Justice Park, with whose friendship I was honoured for many years. If you could spare a portion of your pages for its insertion, you would not only oblige myself, but confer a favour upon others, to whom its perusal would be interesting, particularly to Orthodox Clergymen, to whom the memory of this good and upright man must ever be dear, for the zeal and judgment with which he uniformly exerted himself in the matter to which he refers in this letter the building of additional places of worship-and which I know, from long personal intercourse with him, was one the very nearest to his heart, and which, happily, he lived to see accomplished. JAMES RUDGE. "Lincoln's-Inn Fields, Dec. 27.

"My dear Sir, The extreme pressure of public forensic duty, which only closed on Christmas-eve, at six o'clock, must be my excuse for not having sooner answered your most friendly and most interesting letter, upon a subject which has not now for the first time engaged my attention and deep consideration, of which you will be convinced by the following statement. So long ago as the lifetime of Bishop Porteus I wrote a letter of fourteen folio pages to him upon the very subject of your letter to me; and that most excellent and venerable man was pleased to think so favourably of my plan, that, when I afterwards dined with him at Fulham, he told me he had had four copies of it madeone for the King, one for the Archbisbop, one for Mr. Perceval, and one for somebody else, but I forget who was mentioned. The death of the Bishop, the illness of the King, and the assassination of my dear friend Mr. Perceval, who had the interest of the Church much at heart, put a stop to anything further being done with my letter. But I have reason to believe Mr. Perceval had made some progress; for at a meeting of the Committee of the National Society, at the Bishop of London's house, I was telling him and the Archbishop of Canterbury that I should never sleep in my grave if I did not live to see more places of worship built upon the Establishment, and that, poor as I was, I would give £500 towards a fund for that purpose: upon which these Prelates told me to make myself easy, for that something would soon be done; for I think, the Archbishop said, Mr. Perceval had, before his death, showed him a bill he had prepared on the subject, and that that Bill was now in the hands of Lord Liverpool, and from all I know of him, and from his late promotions in the Church, I am induced to hope for everything that is good for the welfare of our Jerusalem from Lord Liverpool. I am quite satisfied that the object is of too great a magnitude to be accomplished by individual subscription: it ought to be, and must be done, by legislative authority. Much, undoubtedly, may often be effected by private corporations, and by munificent bodies, and sometimes even by the overpowering zeal of an individual anxiously desirous, and being blessed with the means, of promoting the glory of God. And with this view, I have the pleasure to say that when I was at Chester Palace, this summer, the Bishop told me he had two or three churches

then to consecrate, and that there are very nearly twenty churches and chapels building in his diocese.

"I quite agree with you, that the increase of Methodists and sectaries is to be ascribed to the want of Church room more than to any other cause for I believe the people to be strongly attached to the Church, her rites and ceremonies; and I am happy also to add, that, within my memory, the mode of preaching is greatly improved, the pure and unaffected zeal heightened, and the lives of the clergy are much freer from reproach, than in my younger days: in short, the clergy of our Church stand unrivalled amongst other bodies of men, who call themselves ministers, for piety of doctrine and innocency of life; and in their sermons there is an unction which was avowedly wanting forty years ago, and which was about that time introduced by the great and good Horne. You truly say, fas est et ab hoste doceri; and I have no doubt, the Methodists have been as useful in jogging the clergy, as I think Joseph Lancaster has been in driving the friends of the Establishment to the patronage and encouragement of Dr. Bell's most wonderful system. But even the encouragement of that system makes it the more necessary to have more churches and chapels upon the Establishment. We are now teaching thousands and tens of thousands in the principles of our holy religion, as professed in the apostolical Church of England; and while they are children we give them the opportunity of worshipping God according to her formularies, and we inculcate upon them the necessity and duty of rigidly adhering to them in after life; and yet, in the present paucity of places, what is to become of all these children when they grow to be adults? Shall we, ourselves, be the cause of choaking this good seed which we have sown? God forbid.

"I lament much, my dear Sir, that our lot now is cast so far asunder, as it would give me extreme pleasure to cultivate the acquaintance and friendship of one whose writings, both public and private, have given me so much cause to esteem him. Believe me, my dear Sir,

"Rev. Dr. Rudge."

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Very faithfully yours,

"J. A. PARK."

MILLENNARIANISM.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE CHURCHMAN.

SIR,-Millennarianism is a word which in the minds of many persons is synonymous with every fanatical absurdity; but this I think is more justly to be attributed to the wild notions which have been engrafted upon it than to the doctrine itself.

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That a Millennium, in some sense or other, has been believed in by many very illustrious divines of ancient and modern days, is evident from their writings. Separated from the mass of absurdity with which it has too often been overlaid, it seems simply to amount to this, viz., that Infidelity, Popery, Mohammedanism, and all false religions being destroyed, pure religion shall become for the most part universal for the space of a thousand years, and that the ancient people of God, being converted to the faith of Christ, and acknowledging Him as their true Messiah (See Romans xi.), and being also, perhaps, restored to their own country, the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea." For my own part, I can see nothing objectionable in this view of the subject; on the contrary, it seems to set before our eyes a glorious and encouraging hope for the future religious improvement and welfare of the human race; and I will here just add that I am inclined to concur generally, though not in every point, with the views of Mr. Faber in his "Sacred Calendar of Prophecy." It is truly astonishing to read the article in the present number of the Quarterly Review, entitled "The Papal Conspiracy," wherein we see the very thing that Faber, in some of his works, written from twenty to thirty years ago, said (in his opinion, as an interpreter of prophecy) would come to pass in the present century, asserted to be now in actual progress, viz., that after

a second Revolution in France there would be a Papal conspiracy to root out Protestantism from Christendom, and that Popery and Infidelity would be united together in this work by the reconciliation of Popish Rome with Infidel France, which circumstances are now actually announced in this number of the Quarterly Review!! Add to which, that the Afghans, respecting whom there is a most curious dissertation in his work on the restoration of the Jews, and who are believed, on the high authority of Sir William Jones, to be the descendants of the ancient Israelites, the ten tribes, are now again attracting public notice !

Now, Sir, I submit that these curious facts are really enough to arrest our serious attention: here we see the predictions of an interpreter of prophecy positively fulfilled in one instance before our eyes, viz., the second French Revolution in 1830, and apparently fulfilling in two other instances, viz., the Papal conspiracy and the reconciliation of France with Rome; Infidel France, which has been truly said to be alternately the support and scourge of Popish Rome.

I will conclude by observing that I entirely agree with Bishop Horsley, that the plain and literal meaning of the prophecies relating to the future fortunes of the Jewish nation ought to be strenuously maintained by all who study them. (See Bishop Horsley's Hosea, and letter on Isaiah xviii.) Surely to explain away Jeremiah xxiii, 8, by supposing it merely refers to the Christian faith spread among the Gentiles, and to the few individual Jews who have at different times embraced Christianity, is to assume such a licence of interpretation as may enable us to make, the ancient prophecies say just whatever we please; it is, to use the words of the Bishop, to make it little superior to “a paltry quibble, more worthy of the Delphic tripod than of the Scriptures of truth."

I am, Sir, your faithful servant,

PHOENIX.

P. S.-In Vol. xxxviii of the Quarterly Review you will find a curious article on the restoration of the Jews.

MARSHWOOD.-POPISH SPIRIT OF PROSELYTING.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE CHURCHMAN.

SIR, Recent events and daily observation render it no longer a matter of doubt that the Papists are putting in requisition every effort by which they can spread the tenets of their church and increase the number of proselytes to their communion. Every available opportunity is seized to propagate their opinions; chapels are built and priests are located in every spot in which there is the remotest prospect of making converts, and of drawing Protestants from their attendance on their parish churches. Perhaps you will permit me to mention one case which has lately come under my own observation. Contiguous to Lyme-Regis, where a chapel has lately been erected, though there are few families of the Romish communion to frequent it, is a parish called Marshwood, in the county of Dorset, in a most deplorable state of destitution from the want of a parish church. About the year 1662 the parish church, or chapel, fell down; and more than a century and a half have been suffered to elapse without any attempt having been made to rebuild it. Within the last four or five years, however, some warm-hearted and benevolent Churchmen in the place and neighbourhood have stepped forward to rescue the parish from this opprobrium, and to supply it with a place of worship, but hitherto without success, though the bishop of the diocese (Dr. Denison) has subscribed £20, a Mr. Bullen, who has considerable property in the parish, £155, and a Mr. James £50, and other individuals minor sums, amounting in the whole to more than £400. From some cause or other, however, nothing has been done the good work has not been begun and perfected. It is fair to add, that the difficulty of agreeing upon the site for the church is the reason alleged why it has not been rebuilt a difficulty surely easily to be overcome, if all parties are really alive to the necessity of the case and the evils of procrastination. In the meantime, two or three meeting-houses have been erected among a popu