1553 Popery restored in England under Mary.-Latin Liturgies again used in England. Several English Protestants take refuge in foreign parts.

1555 Bishops Latimer and Ridley burnt at Oxford, and Bishop Hooper burnt at Gloucester, by the Papists.

1556 Archbishop Cranmer burnt at Oxford by the Papists. 1558 Accession of Queen Elizabeth on the death of Mary.-The Popish form of worship abolished, and the English service restored.

1559 John Knox preaches in Scotland against the errors of Popery. 1562 The Thirty-nine Articles made and introduced.

1564 Death of Calvin, aged 55.

1582 The new style introduced into the Roman Calendar by Pope Gregory XIII.; October 5 being reckoned the 15th.

1583 Whitgift became Archbishop of Canterbury.

1600 Death of the pious and judicious Richard Hooker.

1603 Crowns of England and Scotland united under King James I. 1605 Gunpowder-plot of the Fapists.

1611 Our present version of the Bible, translated from the original languages, under the superintendence of the episcopal bench,

by forty-seven learned persons, authorized and caused to be published by King James I.

1612 New Colonies planted in Ireland by King James I. 1625 Accession of King Charles I.

1641 Rebellion in Ireland.-Massacre of many thousands of Protestants by the Papists.

1642 Civil war begun in England.

1643 Fox begins to preach: he and his followers first called Quakers at Derby.

1644 Death of Chillingworth at Chichester.

1645 Archbishop Laud condemned and beheaded.-King Charles ruined by the battle of Naseby.-Death of the learned Hugo Grotius.

1649 Martyrdom of King Charles I.

1656 Death of Archbishop Usher.

1657 Brian Walton published his celebrated Polyglott Bible. 1660 Restoration of King Charles II.

1676 Death of Sir Matthew Hale on Christmas-day.

1677 Death of Dr. Isaac Barrow.

1678 A Charter granted by King Charles II. for erecting a corporation for the relief of poor widows and children of clergymen. 1688 Committal of seven Bishops to the Tower of London, the Primate Sancroft being at their head—Revolution in England. -Flight of King James II.

1691 Dr. John Tillotson nominated Archbishop of Canterbury, in the room of Sancroft.-Death of the Hon. Robert Boyle. 1691 Society established for the conversion and religious instruction of negro slaves in the West Indies.

1698 The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge established.' 1699 Dr. Bray established a society for founding clerical libraries

in England and Wales, and negro schools in British America. 1701 A charter obtained from King William the Third for the

Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,

1702 Queen Anne ascends the throne.

1704 First meeting of the Charity Schools in and about the Metropolis, at St. Andrew's, Holborn (they were afterwards assembled at St. Sepulchre's, Snow Hill-Christ Church, Newgate street-and from 1782 to the present year, successively, at St. Paul's.)

1714 Accession of King George I.

1749 The Society instituted for clothing, maintaining, and educating poor orphans of clergymen of the Established Church.

1752 The new style adopted in England.

1760 Accession of King George III.

1792 Death of Bishop Horne.

1798 Death of the missionary Swartz, in Southern India. 1809 Death of Bishop Porteus.

1811 National Society founded for the education of the poor in the principles of the Established Church-Chartered in 1817. 1814 T. F. Middleton, D. D., consecrated first Bishop of Calcutta 1818 Society established for enlarging and building churches and chapels.

1824 Bishops appointed for Jamaica, and Barbadoes with the Leeward Isles.

1826 Death of Bishop Heber, in India.

1836 A Bishop consecrated for Australia.

1837 Bishops consecrated for Madras and Bombay.

1839 Bishops consecrated for Newfoundland and Toronto (Upper Canada),

TREASURY.

PEARLS WORTH STRINGING.

(From the Memoirs of Mrs. Hawkes.)

"Good is written upon all we receive from God;; but not being written according to our language, we require instruction before we can read it."

"The Christian's heart, like a time-piece, has a continual tendency to go down, and equally needs winding up. Sabbaths are good days for this purpose, but the business must be repeated every day."

The Bible is a new standard by which to measure every Occurrence. Who would ever have thought of counting it all joy to be afflicted, had they not learned it from the Word of God? But he who carries the cross on his back, needs the crown in his eye.'

"We are frequently disposed to give a sort of general regard to God, and are not so disposed to credit, that the hairs of our head are all numbered; but we learn from the

Bible, that the providence of God is ever active. A stone thrown into the water forms ring after ring, till the eye cannot follow it. Things seem to us to be insulated, but the connection, consequence, and relation, are beyond all: calculation; thus the wheels of a clock seem to go contrary ways, but they all tend to one end and design."

"A worm is prepared for every gourd; every creaturecomfort is a gourd; do not, like Jonah, rejoice in it. Whatever it is, it is no subject for such joy, though it may be for thanksgiving, for every gourd will wither. It is a Christian's mercy and privilege that there is a shade provided for him. which has no worm at the root, for he that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.""

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"Christianity invites to examination; we are invited to compare, to take pains, to grow in wisdom, that we may know how to approve things that are excellent. For this purpose we are provided with a measuring rod, a standard. The Christian is to take the balances of the sanctuary; with these only true balances let us weigh the favour, riches, ease, and friendship of the world which perish in the using, with the portion of the true Christian, who is hastening to joys: immortal and a crown of glory which fadeth not away."

The greater portion of these are the remarks of Cecil, whose ministry Mrs. Hawkes attended, and in whose family she resided for some years.

POETRY.

(For the Village Churchman.)

LINES

Written on hearing a Robin uniting his song with the Psalmody of the
congregation in Mancetter Church, Sunday morning, Nov. 25, 1838.
Sweet bird! 'twas kind thy notes to raise,
And join us in our song of praise;
Thy joy it seem'd with us to sing,
The praises of our heavenly King;
It seem'd to be thy great delight,
In our loud anthem to unite ;
And from thy little warbling throat,
We heard thee raise thy loudest note,
As if thy voice was meant to blame
Those whose silence is their shame.

6 SUN 2 Sunday in Advent Isaiah 5 Acts a7 Isaiah 24 Heb.

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* Proper Psalms.-Morning, 19, 45, 85. Evening, 89, 110, 132.

643 John 66 Jude

† For St. John Evangelist.-Morning, Eccles. 5.-Evening, Eccles. 6. a To v. 30.

b Beg. v. 30.

c To v. 15. d Begin v. 8, and c. 7, to v. 30.

g Begin v. 30 to v. 55. h To v, 18.

e Ver. 10 to ver. 17. Ver. 4 to verse 9.

W. E. PAINTER, STRAND, LONDON, PRINTER,