cumbents is necessarily somewhat smaller. South of the river Tay, the Episcopal Laity are almost all of the higher and more wealthy classes; including, in many instances, the nobility and the old gentry of the land. In the North, the congregations are more miscellaneous and present frequently under the same roof, a peer of Parliament, and the poorest of the peasantry who cultivate his grounds. In the great cities, the livings of the Clergy average about 3007., while in the smaller towns and country places, they are found to vary from 50l. to 150%. We have heard that one half of the landed property of Scotland is still in the hands of the Episcopalians; but as most of these proprietors are noble, and pass the greater part of the year at a disance from their estates, the Church does not derive much advantage from the wealth of many who profess to belong to it. In the Highlands, particularly, the Clergy are very poorly provided for; several of them having their charges scattered over a surface of two hundred square miles, the duties of which, consequently, are done at a great expence of bodily labour, and yet their recompence may not amount to the Curate's income of forty pounds a year. We were, therefore, forcibly struck with the following remarks, which occur in a sermon preached on a recent occasion by one of themselves, who says: "From the peculiar circumstances in which the Clergy of our Church have been placed for many years, unsupported, as they are, by the powers, and unaided by the wealth of this world, they have, perhaps, stronger claims on the best feelings of their people, than those of any other Church at the present day. He who is not possessed of a considerable share of Christian humility and self-denial, as well as of disinterestedness and zeal, can engage in no employment which is less likely to yield him satisfaction and comfort, than that of a Clergyman of our Church; for, except in the consciousness or the hope of doing good, he can expect no pleasure, he can hope to reap no advantage. You are all aware, my brethren, that from the peculiar nature of our undertaking, all the avenues to wealth, independence, or secular reputation are shut against us. With us the fruits of a liberal education, the study and application years, the flower and vigour of life, are not employed, as in the case of others, in pursuing the paths of ambition, in providing a liberal maintenance for our families, or in laying a foundation for future years of independence and ease, but in submitting to a voluntary though honourable poverty, and in following amidst innumerable difficulties and discouragements, the steps of those holy Apostles and Prophets, who willingly endured every trial and deprivation for Christ's sake, and spent themselves in a zealous effort to promote the salvation of sinners, and to direct fallen and erring mortals into the paths of eternal happi of ness *" The Episcopalians in Scotland have hitherto maintained the existence of their Church, by a steady adherence to those principles which 3 *See A Sermon preached at Inverness, by the Rev. Charles Fyvie, M.A. at the visitation, held by the Bishop. A very eloquent and judicious discourse. characterize that portion of Christ's flock, who acknowledge the Apostolical Institution of Bishops. Their tenets on this head, have all along distinguished them from the great majority of their countrymen ; and their unshaken attachment to the form of Ecclesiastical Polity which they believe to be divine, has kept them together, amid all the tribulation and persecutions to which their constancy has been exposed. At present, they are more prosperous than they have at any time been since the insurrection of 1745; and there is the best ground to hope that they will continue to keep pace with the increasing wealth and population of their country, and preserve to the remotest ages the remains of that holy communion, which derives its origin from the purest period of Christian antiquity. NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. In compliance with Dr. Phillpotts's wish, we readily insert the following extract from a letter we have received from him. "In a note to p. 164, I have said as follows: Now it is remarkable, that in the whole of his statement he (Dr. Doyle) never once intimates that this temporal punishment' (from which an indulgence is supposed to relieve) is not confined to this life, but extends also to the pains of purgatory.' This is inaccurate. Dr. Doyle, in answer to a former question, (See Second Report of Committee of the House of Commons, p. 193.) had said, 'Our doctrine with regard to indulgences is, that a person who may have offended against God, or his neighbour, having done every thing in his power to satisfy for his fault, that such person, by gaining an indulgence, is thereby assisted and relieved from such temporal punishment as God, in his justice, might inflict upon him either in this life, or hereafter, in purgatory, previous to his admission into Heaven.' But while I admit this inaccuracy, I cannot retract my charge against Dr. Doyle of dissembling, in the main part of his examination on the subject of indulgences, all connection between them and purgatory.... I know not that any other person has noticed the inaccuracy, which I here admit; but through you I request my readers to give to Dr. Doyle all the benefit of the admission to which he may be fairly entitled." We beg to inform our Correspondent that the Tithe Case, of which he favoured us with a statement, shall appear when the decision on the other, to which he alludes, as being connected with it, has been given, and regularly reported. It will be more useful to our readers to have the whole question before them, at one view, than if the two branches of it were separated. If an Enquirer, with respect to a course of prophetical study, will oblige us with his address, we shall be happy to render him any assistance in our power. INDEX OF THE REMARKABLE PASSAGES IN THE CRITICISMS, EXTRACTS, ECGLESIASTICAL AND A. Absolution, doctrine and practice of, in the Advent, Collect for the first Sunday in, Affliction, consolation of prayer under, Alfred (King), efforts of, to promote learn- Animal Life, remarks on the cause of, Arian tenets, respecting Christian Doc. Articles, the Thirty Nine, of the Church of England, vindicated, 87.-Dr. Paley's Athanasius (St.), illustration of the doc- VOL. II. NO. IV. B. Baptism, the medium of regeneration, 10. Becket, conduct of placed in its true light, Bible, when first prohibited to be read, Birth of John the Baptist, miraculous cir- Books of Jews, burnt by order of Pope Bowdler (John, Esq.) biographical account Bowdler (Thomas, Esq.) biographical no- Bowdler (Mrs.) biographical notice of, Burder (Rev. H. F.) observations on his C. Calumnies of the Romanists, against Arch- Cambridge University,-statute of Queen Camels' hair, garments of, remarks on, 468. 513-515. Cellerier's Sermons, extract from, 177.- Censors of Books, first origin of, 126. Christianity, superiority of, over all hea- Christians, primitive, appellations of, ex- Church of England, solicitude of, for the - - Conversion, observations on, 48. on, of the Scriptures in the vulgar tongue, Creed of St. Athanasius, remarks on, 353- D. Davison (Rev. John), statement of the opi- Dioceses, state of, in England and Wales, Doyle's (Dr.) mental reservation expos- Dunstan, enmity of, to his sovereign E. Edwy, King of England, character and Elgiva, Queen, barbarous treatment of, Episcopacy, apostolical institution of, 450. F. Faith and Works, doctrine of, explained, Geneva (Church of) remarks on the prohi- bition of, from preaching certain essen- God, knowledge of, how attainable, 4. Grant (Rev. Dr.) opposition of, to the IXOYE, the word explained, as used by the Idolatry of the Romish Church proved, Image-worship, taught and practised by Indexes, prohibitory and expurgatory of Infanticide at Bethlehem, 196, 197. 394-396, 398.-benefits which may be Intolerance of the Church of Rome, 331, J. Jesus Christ, deity of, proved, 111.-the what it is to preach Jesus Christ, 297- John the Baptist, critical remarks on the Jonah's Gourd, remark on, 389.—and on Joux (M. de) observations of, on the Di- L. Llandaff's (Bishop of) speech on the bill Locusts, eaten by John the Baptist, critical M. Magi, that visited Jesus Christ, who they |