public gardens tell, where fashion advertises her last- is visited, and the sun shines upon them in his invented freak, and where woman, forgetful of her strength, the light streams from them with a brillofty duties, will stoop to be made a card for dress-liancy and splendour which dazzles and delights the makers, or a gazing-stock for lounging vacancy: let our suburban tea-grounds tell, as cup and glass produce harsh discord with the evening chimes, and the hushed stillness of a sabbath-sky is broken by mirth and song and jocund revelry: let our thronged steamboats tell-but what need have we of further witnesses? Sabbath recreation, as we all know, is only another name for sabbath desecration; and the pretext of seeking health for the body is but an excuse for an enjoyment which is either to famish or to corrupt the soul.-Sermons on the Sabbath, by the rev. D. Moore. CONTENTMENT.-Not so with him who has learned contentment in the school of Christ. The basis of his contentment cannot be shaken. Friends may fail like the summer brooks; and the unkindness and treachery of man may sorely grieve his spirit; but he has a friend in the everlasting courts above, that "sticketh closer than a brother." And the storms which rage without only endear to him more and more the refuge and sanctuary where he has sought, and where he has found his everlasting peace. The riches which the "rust and moth doth corrupt" may fail: the costly house must, perhaps, be parted with; the expenditure limited; the table curtailed of its wonted portion. But his heart and affections are already fixed upon the enduring riches; and what is left is enough to sustain him in his pilgrimage to Zion. "He eats his meat with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God;" and the rich vouchsafements of spiritual strength and comfort which he receives impart a double relish and sweetness to it. And, even should darker clouds gather round his path; should the prospect of leaving his wife a widow, and his children fatherless and destitute, awaken melancholy bodings, yet can he trust his God enough to leave to him his fatherless children and his widowed wife. But who, O who can speak the contentment of his spirit on the eve of his departure for that scene to which his earthly trials have long since turned his hopes and his fondest desires? for he is on the border of that land where universal contentment reigns, purer than ever fancy pictured amidst its imagined peaceful groves, and tranquil vales, and fields of everlasting repose.-Rev. Denis Kelly. BELIEVERS THE JEWELS OF GOD*. - There is one remarkably expressive figure in reference to this subject in the book of Malachi: "In that day will the Lord make up his jewels." The precious stones which are to be from the bowels of the earth are fit emblems of the people of God, then to be brought forth composed of the common materials of the flint and sand and clay which we see around us, they owe all their beauty to that secret transformation effected beneath the surface of the earth, which art has tried in vain to imitate, and which so fits them for their bright destiny, that, when at length the mine From rev. Edward Arnold's sermon on "The Manifestation of the Church at the Coming of the Lord." No. 1 of the Lent lectures of 1844, on Prophecy, pp. 21-23. J. Nisbet, 1844. eye, and which cannot be mistaken, so that they are deemed at once as fitting ornaments of a monarch's crown. O, brethren, this is like the work that is carrying on now in preparation for the great day; the hidden secret operation of the Holy Spirit in the hearts of his people. By nature the children of wrath, even as others, he forms them to be "a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, a regal diadem in the hand of our God." When the Sun of righteousness shall arise upon them, then shall the true character of that divine work be recognized in all its distinguishing, in all its surpassing brightness: "then shall ye discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not:" "they shall be as the stones of a crown:" then shall the hidden source of their light and glory, even God their Saviour, be fully and everlastingly revealed. Brethren, if this be so, see, I beseech you, that this work be really, effectually carried on in your hearts.. Poetry. THE DRESS-MAKER*. BY THE REV. W. MI'LVAINE. (For the Church of England Magazine.) Undimmed thine eye by sorrow's scalding tears, "Tis not for present pain tears dim mine eyes; ISAIAH xliii. 26 (AND CONTEXT). "Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified." (For the Church of England Magazine.) LORD! if my cause be tried, How may I plead with thee? See No. dlxxxviii., p. 388. THE BROTHERS OF LA TRAPPE.-The following curious and exact particulars of this ascetic order were gleaned during a recent visit to the monastery of La Trappe, whilom the Bernardine abbey, situated a short distance from the manufacturing town of Mortagne, Normandy. The monastery is at present composed of twenty-five fathers, comprising the most rev. Louis-Marie, general of the Trappistes, and of fifty lay brothers. The establishment consists of an immense house, with extensive gardens, fish-ponds, stables, sheepfolds, cow-houses, &c., covering a space of several acres, and nightly tenanted by sixteen horses, twenty-six cows, one bull, one hundred sheep, a magnificent ram, sixty pigs and sows; and three hundred geese. The wheat upon the estate is very fine, almost every blade carrying eight ears; and the fruits and vegetables are of an extraordinary size. We remarked a water-mill of English construction upon one of the ponds, which abounded with pike, carp, tench, roach, &c. Close to the convent is the grotto of St. Bernard, the founder of the order, which was re-established and reformed in 1663 by abbé de Rance. The fathers of La Trappe wear a white serge Rom. viii. 26. gown, with a hood attached to it, and the brothers brown ones. The frère-hotelier, or house-steward, alone wears, over a white robe, a sort of black cape: he is the cicerone of the convent visitors. All the Trappistes have their heads shaved with the excep. tion of a small tuft upon the crown. They wear a woollen shirt, which is changed every fifteen days; no trousers, merely linen drawers summer and winter; shoes within doors, and heavy sabots for farm work. Each has his employment, turn about, from which the superior is not even exempted. When a brother commits a fault he is condemned by the most reverend, according to its gravity, to eat upon the ground, or kneeling a certain time with head bent to the earth. The youngest of the fathers is about twenty-five years old, and the most aged seventy years. They sleep, without undressing, upon a plank covered with a thin straw mattrass and a woollen coverlet. No member of the order is permitted to have money in his possession. All that is received by the brother servitors from visitors ought to be placed in the convent-box. When a father or brother dies he is buried coffinless, in his religious dress, and placed in a sitting posture in the cemetery. The most rigorous silence is imposed upon all the Trappistes; and they communicate with each other by signs, like the deaf and dumb. From the 14th of September to Easter these devotees eat only one slight repast during the day: the remainder of the year they make two or three, according to the heaviness of their work. Winter and summer they retire to rest at eight, and rise at two in the morning. They then repair to the chapel until five, and from thence to labour in the farm and the fields. Every kind of work is done in common, and without distinction of persons: all is for the good of the monastery; and each monk submits to the most servile labour in a spirit of penitence and humiliation.-Bell's Messenger. EARLY RISING.-It is a certain sign that our hearts are set upon a work, when the thoughts of it cause sleep to depart from us, and we awake readily, constantly, and early to the performance of it. David delighted in the holy exercises of prayer and meditation; therefore "he prevented the dawning of the morning," and was beforehand with the light itself; therefore his "eyes prevented the watches," that is, the last of those watches, into which the night was by the Jews divided: he needed not the watchman's call, but was stirring before it could be given. Climate and constitution will, doubtless, make a difference, and claim considerable allowance; but, by Christians who enjoy their health in temperate weather, the sun should not be suffered to shine in vain, nor the golden hours of the morning to glide away unimproved; since of David's Lord, as well as of David, it is said, "In the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed."-Bishop Horne. London: Published for the Proprietors by EDWARDS and HUGHES, 12, Ave-Maria Lane, St. Paul's; and to be procured, by order, of all Booksellers in Town and Country. PRINTED BY JOSEPH ROGERSON, 24, NORFOLK-STREET, STRAND, LONDON OF 190By WM. HYLTON VOL. XXI. 0189 971209129 du Sanod sanemmi A letter from Richard Bellycys, 14 Nov,aja Pleasythe your lordship to be advertysed, I have taken down all the lead of Jervaux, and made it into pecys of half fodders, which lead amounteth to the number of eighteen score and five fodders, with thirty and four fodders and ahalf bothat were there before; and the said lead cannot be conveit, nor carried until the next sombre, for the ways in that countre are so foul and deep that no caryage can pass in wyntre. And as concerninge the raising and taking down the house, if it be your lordship's pleasure, I am minded to let it stand to the next spring of the year, by reason of the days are now so short, it wulde be double charges to do it now. And as concerninge the selling of the bells, I cannot sell them above 15s. the hundred, wherein I wolde gladly know your lordship's pleasure, whether I sholde sell them after that price, or send them up to London; and if they be sent up, surely the caryage will be costly from that place to the water. And as for Bridlington, I have done nothing there as yet; but spayred it to March next, because the days are now so very short; and from such time as I begin, I trust shortly to dispatch it after such fashion, that when all is finished, I trust your lordship hath appointed me to doo; and thus the Holy Ghost ever preserve your lordship in honour.-At York, this 14th day of November, 1558, by your lordship's most bounden beadman, (Signed) "RICHARD BELLYCYS." At the dissolution the yearly revenue amounted to 4557. 10s. 5d., Speed ; 2341. 188. 5d., Dugdale. The site was granted to Matthew earl of Lenox, and now belongs to the marquis of Aylesbury. From this time to the present century, the abbey continued in an utter state of desolation, subjected to a systematic course of plunder to build cottages and mend roads with, and became blocked and obscured by earth and rubbish, "with nettles skirted, and with moss overgrown." It has been, however, by the liberality of the noble proprietor, completely excavated; and its present state certainly reflects the highest credit on all parties concerned. The excavation brought to light several curious tombs and altars, and a magnificent tesselated pavement, which, however, soon perished on exposure; but some portions, preserved in a summer-house, sufficiently bear witness to the former splendour of the whole work. There is nothing very remarkable in the architecture of Jerveaux: there are some specimens of transition-Norman, probably the work of the first abbot; but the general style is pure and good THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND MAGAZINE. While I and an archæological friend who had accompanied me from Bedale were hunting up all these old memorials of the dead, we were surprised at the sudden entrance of his brother from Leeds, also an antiquary, and the three musty Dryasdusts, drawn together by similar tastes from divers parts, formed a very delightful trio of antique admirers. The last comer was chiefly struck with the profusion of sweet wild flowrets mantling the crumbling stones with a veil of the chastest beauty, throwing a wild luxuriance over the We eat wild strawotherwise desolate scene. berries in abundance from the now unhallowed altar. Well might the poet exhort the visitor of a ruined abbey early English, with a few portions of later date, others, a very rude one, to Gernagan, parson of The ground-plan is very perfeet, owing to the ac- Tanfield, a village in the vicinity. In Aysgarth cumulation of soil, which fortunately preserved church (appropriated to Jerveaux) is some of its the lower parts from destruction. The church is, rich woodwork: on one stall is a hazle growing as usual, cruciform, with aisles and lady chapel. out of a tun, surmounted by a W., for William In it I counted seven altars, each with the three Heslington, abbot in 1475; and on a screen the steps, said to symbolize repentance, faith, and initials of the last unfortunate abbot remain, who good works: one, in the north transept, is per- has left his memento in his prison-chamber in the fect, with five crosses (the Saviour's five wounds) | Tower of London, it: in the front a stone has been removed, in upon order to get at the reliques deposited within it. There are two curious piscinas in the church, in the floor. On a stone at the west end are the three escallops, the badge of the abbey, combined with three drops in a knot-work pattern. The piers and arches are all very fine. The chapterhouse is an exquisite little structure: the piers are as sharp and beautiful as when first sculptured; and the corbels of the stone roof still retain some of the ancient colouring; a seat runs round the room, where sat the monks in solemn conclave. The general kitchen has three enormous fireplaces, nine feet wide, and has some singular apertures in the walls, whereby the viands were conveyed smoking hot to the refectory and abbot's private-room-a good contrivance. Near is a small chapel, with altar and piscina, where one of the brethren said prayers before meatprobably often a reluctant duty when the goodly savour reached his olfactory organs. The abbot appears to have had a small private chapel above his room; and above the refectory was the dormitory, which was divided into small apartments by wooden screens, each brother having a separate window. Perhaps to an antiquary the most interesting feature of Jerveaux is its splendid collection of sepulchral slabs, in which respect it yields to few or no other abbeys in the kingdom. In the chapter-house are some very early coffin-shaped stones, with inscriptions, but no device: that to the memory of the first abbot, now almost 700 years old, is as perfect as when laid down: "+TVMBA JOH'IS P'MI ABB'IS JOREVALLIS;" and adjoining it are those of the third, fifth, and eighth abbots. In the same room is a fine large slab to Peter de Snape, seventeenth abbot, with a cross, mitre, and pastoral staff : the mitre was assumed by this monastery, though, as it is not included in the list of mitred abbeys, its right In the church are nuto it seems questionable, merous slabs; many of which have no legends: one remarkably fine one, with chalice and wafer, is to the memory of one Brian Aysgarth*; another to William Sallay, also a priest; another to one T. Dunwell, chantry priest of St. Leonard, at York; besides others, and an early cross-legged effigy of a Fitzhugh. There is a stone coffin, seven feet long; and in the farm-house adjoining are the remnants of a dado of a tomb, decorated with numerous coats of arms; the top being used as a sink, while the arms are built into stable-walls. In Middleham church is preserved the stone which covered Robert Thornton, the twentysecond abbot: it bears a thorn-bush, a tun (rebus on the name), the mitre, and pastoral staff; and at the opposite bank of the river, in a farm-yard, are some memorials from the abbey; amongst • This is the one figured on the opposite page. | "And, home returning, soothly swear GALLIO; OR, THE TEMPORIZER*. "Fallible man,' the church-bred youth replies, And differing judgments serve but to declare That truth lies somewhere, if one knew but where,' " COWPER. GALLIO was only a specimen of a numerous class which existed in his own day, and which has existed in every age of the church since. We are apt to imagine, while reading the stirring events recorded in the sacred oracles, that contemporaries must needs have taken the liveliest interest in them. But there were multitudes by whom these events passed unnoticed and unregarded. Even during those transactions, the memory of which shall fill the universe with wonder during the countless ages of eternity, how many remained unconcerned! How many in the holy city, on that day of days, that awful day, when the blood of atonement was shed upon the cross, were as unconcerned and as unmoved as if all things went on in their usual course! Business was attended to; pleasure followed. There was feasting, and visiting, and trafficking proceeding as usual. And the same indifference and unconcern was manifested to the labours and the preaching and miracles of the first propagators of Christianity. There were multitudes who gave themselves no concern about them, or took up opinions on hear-say or idle report, and never gave themselves trouble to inquire any farther. They looked with indifference and contempt on the whole subject. How many of How many the haughty Romans were like Gallio! of the Epicurean and the stoic philosophers! How many of the wise after the flesh, the mighty, and the noble, were like Gallio! They, like him, took what they thought the prudent and politic determination to keep clear of the matter altogether; to mix themselves up in no way with what they conceived to be their contemptible squabbles. • From "Characters," by the Rev. Denis Kelly, M.A. London: Edwards and Hughes. |