THE MONTHLY PACKET OF EVENING READINGS FOR Younger Members of the English Church. VOLUME XIII. Nos. LXXIII. TO LXXVIII. JANUARY-June, 1857. LONDON: JOHN AND CHARLES MOZLEY, 6, PATERNOSTER ROW ; AND J. H. PARKER, OXFORD. 1857. "The Little Duke' in New Zealand; or, the Maori Chief's Son, a True Story of the Years 1854-1856 Traditions of Norway. A Tale of Gudbrandsdal Young Step-mother, The 21, 141, 261, 360, 474 CONVERSATIONS ON THE CATECHISM. THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT. (LOWLINESS.). Helena. I wonder whether we have done with the Fifth Commandment. Audrey. Surely we shall have to go through the duty to governors, teachers, spiritual pastors, and masters. Miss O. All those who bear any delegated portion of the parental or royal authority. Audrey. Or heavenly perhaps-our spiritual pastors. Miss O. Yes; that relation has, partly from reserve, and partly from dread of old abuses, fallen almost out of mind in our day, even among good sort of people, though we still keep up the bishop's official title, Father in God. Helena. We see it at the utmost when St. Martin made his priests drink before the Emperor Maximus. Audrey. Or when St. Louis could hardly bear to let his chaplains help him in his illness. Helena. Or Queen Isabel of Castille always standing to her confessor. Miss O. The ideal always being, that those who took least honour to themselves, should have the most respect paid to them, for the sake of the Chief Shepherd whom they represented. That all this went wrong in different ways, is the cause that things are as we see them now. PÁRT 73. |