We stopped over the Sabbath at Salem, and attended worship in the neat little church of that pleasant village.

Just hint to our friend that we don't want to hear anything about his theology, and the less he talks about the primitive Church the better.

Before the foundation of grammar schools, there was usually a scholasticus attached to the abbeys and cathedral churches, who directed and superintended the education of the neighboring nobility and gentry.

The parish church of Our Lady was for the most part rebuilt in 1788, but it still keeps a good Norman door to the south of the nave.

Standing before the altar at Westminster, "in the presence of the clergy and people he promised with an oath that he would defend God's holy churches and their rulers; that he would, moreover, rule the whole people subject to him with righteousness and royal providence; would enact and hold fast right law and utterly forbid rapine and unrighteous judgments."

At dawn, all the people proceeded to the principal church (Martyrium) where a sermon was preached and Mass celebrated.

Now by the recent census there are 65,811 professing Christians in the Punjab province, and the schools and native churches are nearly all self-supporting.

Their abbey churches, especially, became the wonder and the admiration of the age, both for size and magnificence.

Many artistic and historical treasures, including the priceless library of Louvain University and several magnificent churches, centuries old, were totally destroyed.

The parents and friends of the children were invited to attend, and a colored church, recently erected,the largest available building,was secured as the place where the exercises should take place.

They were a peaceful and useful set of men, at this period outside their spiritual functions; they built grand churches; they had fruitful gardens; they were exceedingly hospitable.

The venerable Chieftain did not long survive his admission into the pale of the visible church of Christ.

For some thirteen hundred years when men have spoken of Canterbury, they have had in mind the metropolitan church of England, the great cathedral which still stands so finely there in the rather gloomy close behind Christ Church gate, rightly upon the foundations of its predecessors, Roman, Saxon, and Norman buildings.

The voice of the preacher penetrates the minds of the people, as did that of Savonarola at Florence announcing the invasion of Italy by the French,days of fear and anxiety, reminding us also of Chrysostom at Antioch, when in his spacious basilican church he roused the people to penitence, to avert the ire of Theodosius.

Greater care must be taken of the rural church.

Our young friend BROWN, the spirituel and fascinating assistant Rector of a fashionable uptown church, has in this gallery a rendering of a similar subject.

The desire to raise up splendid churches in the place of the dilapidated Saxon buildings was a passion with Normans, whether clerics or laymen.

She has within a few years founded a sect that has over 100,000 converts, and very recently saw completed in Boston as a testimonial to her labors, a handsome fire proof church that cost $250,000, and was paid for by Christian Scientists all over the country.

In those days the Evangelical Protestant churches, unlike the Romanists, who for many centuries had largely availed themselves of it, were not alive to the importance of the ministry of women.

This, however, did not last long; by 1091 a new Norman church, the work of Bishop Ralph, whose great stone coffin stands in the Lady Chapel, had been built upon this site and dedicated in honour of the Blessed Trinity, the old church being commemorated in the nave, which still was used as the parochial church of St Peter Major.

The omission of a chancel arch is a step towards the ideal simplicity of the late Perpendicular churches (e.g., St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich), running from east to west without break, but the large rood piers and reduced width and height of chancel make the pause demanded in so long a church.

"I am not so easily disposed to find fault where the venerable church is concerned.

The following item, however, taken from a daily paper, is very suggestive of the old saying, "The nearer the church," etc.

There were no modern painted windows, flaring with raw colors, nor other gorgeous adornments, such as the present taste for medieval restoration often patches upon the decorous simplicity of the gray village-church.

Methinks that [that is] built like a round church, Should yet have some of Julius Caesar's wine: I warrant 'twas not broached this hundred year.