Are you interested about little Anne? If I thought you would like to hear more of her I would write another chapter for the Magazine next month. Shall I? or shall I not?

LITURGICAL AND SCRIPTURAL LESSONS.

K. K.

XXXIII. JULY 2ND. SECOND SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. For what two things do we pray in this collect? What does the epistle chiefly urge upon us?

What parable is selected for What is set forth in the great Who are

the gospel? Who recorded it? supper? Who makes it? Who are the servants? bidden? Are there many that refuse to come? Can there be a sufficient excuse? What will be the consequence of persisting in the refusal? Are any forced to come against their will? How are we to understand the word compel? [as induce, persuade.] Where will they be who are not at the last great supper? then is our present duty?

XXXIV.

JULY 9TH. THIRD SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.

What

Where is the epistle for this day taken from? Whose son was he? What was his natural disposition? What does he enforce in this scripture? Did he practice it? How many epistles did he leave? To whom are they addressed? What parables of our Lord are contained in the gospel for this Sunday? Who were the Publicans? Who the Pharisees? Who were the Scribes ? Who are meant by the just persons "who

Were they all bad?

need no repentance ?"

XXXV. JULY 16TH. FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.

Who wrote the epistle for this day? In what state was the world created? Did it continue so? What produced the change? Through whom was the curse taken away? Who wrote the gos

pel? Of what is it a part? Where else is this recorded? Are the same words used in both places? What is the meaning of "mete"?-mote ?-beam ?-hypocrite?

XXXVI.

JULY 23RD. FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.

What is the object desired in this collect? On what part of the epistle is it founded? To whom is the first epistle of St. Peter addressed? What is the sense of "pitiful" in the epistle for the day? What is the meaning of "ensue"? the Psalms is a portion of this epistle taken? by "Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts?"

From which of

What is meant

Which other of

the evangelists relates the same incidents as are contained in this gospel? By what other name is the Lake of Genesaret called? What towns stood upon it? How was the declaration of Jesus to Simon, "from henceforth thou shalt catch men" to be fulfilled?

XXXVII. JULY 25TH. FEAST OF ST. JAMES.

SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.

Why is this apostle sometimes called James the Great? Who was his father? What were the two names of his mother? [Mary Salome.] What request did she once make of our Lord ? What was our Lord's answer? What did He allude to when He spake of His cup and His baptism? How did they answer Him? How did they fulfil their word? Which was the first to suffer? Who ordered His death? How did He suffer? Where? What office did He fulfil then? What do we pray for in the collect? XXXVIII. JULY 30TH. On what part of Scripture is this collect founded? What is it to be baptised unto Jesus Christ? What is it to be baptized unto his death? What is it to be buried with Christ? What is it to be "dead indeed unto sin"? What is it to be "alive unto God" ? What will baptism avail those who are not dead indeed unto sin, and alive unto God? Through whom alone does such grace come? Is it assured in any other way than holy Baptism? In what was the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees deficient? What are meant by them of old time in the gospel? What judgment is here spoken of? What is the meaning of Raca? In the case supposed in the gospel which is the offender, the person addressed or his brother? And yet, which is to be reconciled? What grace will most incline us to reconciliation?

Eminent Characters of the New Testament.

ST. PETER, THE APOSTLE.

SIMON PETER was a native of Bethsaida, in Galilee; where his brother St. Andrew was also born. By occupation they were fishermen, and St. Andrew at least, if not both of them, was one of the disciples of John the Baptist. They were the two first whom our Lord chose to be His companions during His earthly ministry; the account given of their first conversion is full of interest and instruction. You will find it recorded in the first chapter of St. John's Gospel. St. Andrew, having first seen the long expected Saviour, at once, with that real warmth and love which ought to be in the heart of every christian, runs to tell his brother the joyful tidings, saying: "We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ," the Anointed One, who had of old been promised. And here, little children, may not each of you learn a lesson, and when you have been taught at the Sunday School, and in the Church, your duty to God, and those things which concern your eternal peace, when you know how to say your prayers to God, through Christ our Mediator, and so to draw near to your heavenly Father, may not you, when you go home to your fireside, teach your little brothers and sisters to do the same as yourself, and at least induce them to say their private prayers regularly, morningand evening? If you do this, you are doing a blessed work, you are bringing an infant to Christ, and will be sure to be rewarded. Think what Peter

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became, an Apostle; and though your brother or sister be not an Apostle, yet are they sure of a great blessing, that if they follow your good example, they will be walking in the way that leadeth to eternal life, whilst you will in the end receive that blessing which is promised in the book of the prophet Daniel, that "they which turn many to righteousness shall shine as the stars for ever and ever." (Dan. xii. 3.) Let then each of us strive to gain this prize, always keeping in mind the counsel of the wise king Solomon: "Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth." (Eccl. xii. 1.)

But let us turn to the after life of St. Peter, and observe his character. We next hear of him when he was with James and John, the sons of Zebedee, fishing, when they had toiled all night and taken nothing, but who, the moment, upon our Lord's command, they had let down their nets for a draught, inclosed such a multitude of fishes that their net brake. Then Simon, overawed at the presence of our Lord, "fell down at Jesus' knees, and said, Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord." But the dread which they experienced was soon changed, when our Lord told Simon: "Fear not, from henceforth thou shalt catch men." this they each of them at once forsook all, and followed Christ, and during all the rest of his ministry, seem to have been regarded by Him in terms of closer intimacy than any of the rest. They were the only disciples who were present at the raising from death of Jairus's daughter, at the transfiguration on the holy mount, or who witnessed His agony at the garden of Gethsemane.

After

But though St. Peter was from the first admitted

to such close intimacy with our Lord, though he was always so full of zeal in anything which concerned his Lord and Master, yet there is a great warning to be derived by all of us from some points in his character. That very zeal which he had, brought with it, as it too commonly does, a great amount of self-confidence, which was very nearly causing his ruin. He did not at first know how weak and frail human nature is, even when our purposes and resolutions are strongest. We can do nothing without the grace of God, nothing which is pleasing and acceptable in His sight. And so when he made his confession "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God," our Lord, as if knowing at the time the inward thoughts of Peter, said, "Blessed art Thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven." But as we hear on that occasion he immediately afterwards fell, and met with a severe rebuke from our Lord, as he had on a former occasion fallen, when after the example of Christ he had commenced walking on the sea, and then sunk from want of faith.

WHY DO YOU GO TO CHURCH?

1. I go to church to join my fellow christians in prayer and praise to God through Jesus Christ. A Christian is a member of a society. That society is the Church of Christ, founded by Christ through His Apostles; and contains in it all those who according to Christ's command, have been duly baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; and have not either renounced their communion with the Church, or been cast out of the Church for their offences. I am bound, therefore, as a member of this society, to join with my fellow