that they have any such definite aim as we have suggested. But, what is even yet more important, the sacrifice of the Holy Eucharist is offered in some instances once in the middle of the week, and in others daily. We also subjoin in extenso a notice circulated at the commencement of the present Lenten season in several parishes of Bristol. We cannot too highly commend the spirit of the scheme, and the details of its operation. The very titles of the proposed sermons supply a subject of exceeding comfort. BRISTOL. LENT, 1850. In addition to the usual Sunday Services there will be Divine Service in the following Churches, on the days and at the hours undermentioned :— ALL SAINTS :-Daily Morning Service, at 9. Sermons on Thursday Evening, at 64. The Holy Communion on Holy Days, at 9. S. ANDREW, MONTPELIER :-Morning Service on Wednesday and Friday, at 11. Daily Morning Service, in Holy Week, at 11. Morning Service, on Holy Days, at 11. Sermons ou Wednesday, Friday, and Holy Day Evenings, at 7. S. AUGUSTINE :-Daily Morning Prayer, at 94. Litany and Commination Service on Ash Wednesday, at 11. Evening Prayer and Sermon on Ash Wednesday, at 7. Evening Prayer and Sermon on the Second Thursday in Lent, and every following Thursday, at 74. S. BARNABAS :-Daily Morning Service, at 94. S. JAMES:-Daily Morning Service, at 84; except on Wednesday, Friday, and Holy Days. Morning Service on Wednesday, Friday, and Holy Days, (with Holy Communion,) at 11. Daily Morning Service in Holy Week, at 11. Daily Evening Service, at 8, except on Tuesday. Evening Service, on Tuesday, at 6. Sermons on Tuesday, at 64, p. m. Sermons every other Evening in Lent, at 8. S. JOHN BAPTIST :-Daily Morning Service, at 8. Daily Evening Service, at 44. Sermons on Thursday Evening, at 44. S. JUDE:-Daily Morning Service, at 10. Daily Evening Service, at 7. Sermons on Wednesday, Friday, and Holy Day Evenings. S. MARK, EASTON :-Daily Morning Service, at 9. Wednesday and Friday Mornings, at 11. Daily Evening Service, at 6}. Sermons on Wednesday and Friday Evenings, and every day in Holy Week, at 6. S. NICHOLAS :-Morning Service on Wednesday and Friday, at 11, with Sermons and Daily Prayers in the Holy Week. S. PAUL, BEDMINSTER:-Morning Service, on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 74; and on Wednesday, Friday, and during Holy Week, at 11. Evening Service on Wednesday and Friday, and daily in Holy Week, at 7. Sermons on Wednesday Evening, and Daily in Holy Week, at 7. Catechising on Friday, at 7. The following Course of Sermons on "The NICENE CREED "is proposed to be preached in the Church of SAINT JAMES. Alms will be collected after the Evening Services in S. James's Church on Ash Wednesday, and on every Wednesday and Friday Evening, for meeting the Expenses of the Daily Services throughout the year, which are very considerable in amount. Subject of the Sermons proposed to be preached in the Church of S. JOHN 6 Thursday 21 The Rector 14 Rev. J. R. Woodford The Beloved Mother and Faithful The Prayer for the Murderers.— S. Luke xxiii. 34. The Thirst.-S. John xix. 28. xxiii. 43. The Departing Spirit.-S. Luke xxiii. 46. 28 Rev. J. R. Woodford "It is finished."-S. John xix. 30. Subject of the Sermons proposed to be preached in the Church of S. NICHOLAS. Subject of the Sermons proposed to be preached in the Church of S. JUDE. Subject of the Sermons proposed to be preached in the Church of S. MARK, Lower Easton. Sermons every Morning, on the LORD's Prayer, by the Rev. J. G. HILL. Sermons every Evening, on Isaiah, chap. liii., by the Rev. J. R. WOODFORD. THE LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF ROBERT (Concluded from p. 81.) THERE is one feature in these volumes which leads us especially to recommend them to our readers. Not only are they the most interesting volumes we have almost ever read, full of spirit, life, and intelligence, and for gracefulness of composition very models of epistolary writing; but there is a good tone throughout, a tone which at this time it is most refreshing to meet with. Southey himself, we have said, had an honest and good heart: he was full of kindly feelings, and still more of kindly deeds; he not only loved but laboured for his friends; he worked laboriously and incessantly, not merely because he loved work, for he had to undergo the pain of not labouring at what he really was interested in, but because he had to assist a destitute mother, and brothers, who, like himself, were fatherless. His letters to his brothers are all over love and heartiness, and he cared for their welfare, according to his judgment, in respect of moral as well as physical good; his character is marked by manly, honourable, and generous sentiments; he was a true and a faithful friend, he could advise and reprove and not lose his friends, and his house was the home of those who needed it; his practical good sense, and the absence of that wild ness of genius which characterised his friend and almost brotherColeridge-enabled him to have this home to offer to this day the sister of Mrs. Southey-the wife of his early friend Lovel, the last of the Pantisocrats, is living under the roof of his surviving son; and there are similar manifestations of good and kindly feelings in those with whom he was connected, which present us with the brighter side of human conduct, and practically refute the wretched principles of a selfish world. One of the most marked deserves to be recorded here. It was the generous act of his school-fellow, Mr. Charles W. Wynne, who, originally with the view of enabling him to engage in the study of the law, gave him for some years after his return from Portugal, an annuity of £160, "the prompt fulfilment of a promise made during their years of college intimacy... bestowed with pleasure, received without any painful feelings, and often reverted to, as the staff and stay of those years, when otherwise he must have felt to the full all the manifold evils of being, as he himself expresses it, cut adrift upon the ocean of life," for early in his career he was without means of support for himself or his relations. This was doubtless the means of rescuing a noble and generous mind from actual want-or a drudgery which would probably soon have worn out his delicate frame. We have said that there are but a few intimations given of the influences by which Southey was recovered from the errors into which he ran. Throughout he seems to have clung almost ostentatiously to the truths of "Natural Religion." He says he was preserved from vice first by refinement of sentiment, and afterwards by an almost stoical morality. Stoicism was his morality and almost his religion too. Some things which influenced him for good he does mention-some more than once, which it may do us real good to notice the first was the influence of the living example-and even more, of the memory of his college friend, Edmund Seward. Four years after his death-three years after Southey's return to England, to a home, where we conceive he was gradually yielding to the influence of religious truth-the memory of Seward was deeply fixed in his mind. We are sure our readers will not regret that we reprint it, though it lacks the comforting thoughts of the Resurrection of the Flesh :— |