Rev. xix. 8.

Queen Philippa's
Golden Book,

The Queen,
the Country
Girl, and the
Fairy.

"It

The next time I came fhe was gone,—but,
all the time fhe was in the Parish fhe was a
regular Churchwoman, and a Communicant,
and never miffed the Baptifmal Service.
was this," said my old Friend, "that kept her
unbalanced mind together ;—and it seemed to
me, that when fhe faw the infants in their
white Baptifmal Robes, fhe had always her
own before her clothed in white,—that 'fine
linen which is the righteousness of the faints;'
-and mentally perhaps she said,

"This mortal flough caft off, I hope to ftand,
Clad in immortal youth, at His right hand,
Not as the meed of mine own righteousness,
But numbered with His children none the less.'

Had Mrs. Southey been alive," added the Old Vicar, "what a sweet poem would she have written upon her,—the 'Greenwood Shrift, and the Landing of the Primrose' were not prettier. Depend upon it the Church of our Fathers has grand affociations,-unequalled refreshings,-comforts not to be matched. Home recollections' attach longest to the fanctuary,-old melodies, however homely, once heard there, keep the mind in tune,

"There is a peculiar power in the facred fanctuary where home recollections linger, in the well-remembered old melodies, which exalt us over, and carry us away from the scenes of every-day life.”"To be or not to be." Hans Christian Andersen, p. 364.

though the world jar never so roughly, or the ruts of life be never fo deep!" To which he would add with a fmile, "The three bells of dear Hanwood Church, two of which were cracked, convey to my ears what a Cathedral peal,-though they were the merry Christ Church bells,'-never could ;-and old John Altree's Baffoon, and the deep intonation of his clerk's AUM,-it was his way of faying Amen,-brings back to my mind what the fulleft choir never could, and what the most accomplished clerk in gown and taffels never did and never can!"

It was Ali that faid, "The recollection of youth is a figh!"

With the poor woman ftill in view, I will conclude this chapter with a paffage from Lathbury's "Hiftory of the Book of Common Prayer, with the Rubrics and Canons."

"While fome may leave us for the Church See p. 196. of Rome, others do not conceal their predilection for the platform of Calvin. Amidst the distractions and the changes of time, the true Churchman will adhere to the formularies of the Church, which, with the Holy Scriptures, are his fafeguards against errors in doctrine, or inconfiftency in practice."

Habington's
Poems.

From Boughton

or Buckton

Churchyard,
Northampton-

fhire.

Sir Thomas

Browne, Vol.

iii. 492.

Ovid, Amor.

II. vi. 39. Nicholas

Breton's School of Fancie. Park's Heliconia, Pt. iii. P. II.

CHAPTER XXIII.

The Country Churchyard and the
Graves of the People.

"But now my foul prepare

To ponder what and where we are:
How frail is life, how vain a breath
Opinion, how uncertain death;
How only a poor stone shall bear
Witness that once we were."

"Time was I ftood where thou doft now
And viewed the dead as thou doft me;

Ere long thou'lt lie as low as I,

And others ftand and look on thee!"

"Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable perfons forgot, than any that ftand remembered in the known account of time?"

"Optima prima ferè manibus rapiuntur avaris,
Implentur numeris deteriora fuis."

"Methought that wifdom came and warned me in hafte
To love fuch leffons as I learned in that my youth was paft!
For fhort would be my fweet, and time would pafs away,-
The man is in his grave to-day who lived yesterday!"

HESE lines would run in my head
as I paffed through our Church-
yard early one June morning on
my way to Chipper's Caftle,-no

real caftle, fave in the fenfe in which every man's house is his caftle, but two cottages by a pond's fide, where fome South Saxon blood ycleped Chipper' had refided fince they were built, and apt lines they were, for the fod had been broken lately in many places, and the little hillocks told the tale of mortality.

See Mrs. Bray's

Tamar and

Tavy, iii. 103.

What thoughts rise in a rightly disposed mind on the fight of a Churchyard, especially in the country, where all is ftill and quiet! Seems it not to fay, what the stone statue of Sethos only pointed at—Ες ἐμέ τις ορέων Herod. Euterp. EVOεßns OTW "Look on me, and be thou c. cxli. holy?" What affociations, what deep fearchings of heart, are fuggefted by the raised fod!

"Around the Church a spirit band

Of God's elect in glory stand;
And faith upon each brow can fee
The radiance of eternity!

1 "Chipper" is pure Anglo-Saxon, like ceapen, cypen. So we have fimilar words in chapman, to cheapen, to chop a bargain, in Swedish köpa where the k is pronounced ch as in Linköping, i. e. Linchipping. The German kaufen, the Danish kjöbe, the Belgian Koopen, the Icelandic kaufa, &c. &c., all point one way. It is worth while confulting White Kennet's Gloffary under the head CHIP-CHURCHES.

I may add the extract following, juft published as this fheet goes through the press.

"As the useful arts, and commerce, began to fpread after the AngloSaxon conquefts, correfponding names arofe. Many derived from chepen, applied to places of commercial traffic; among fuch are Cheapfide, the ward of Cheap, Eaft-Cheap, Chepstow, Chippenham, ChippingNorton, Chipping-Ongar, Chipping-Wycomb. To this lift may be added Copmanthorpe in Yorkshire, which deferves to be compared with Copenhagen in Denmark, and with Kauf Bauern in Germany."-Edinburgh Review, April, 1860, p. 371.

Eccles. ix. 5.

4, 6.

"The 'duft of Jacob' who can count !

Or measure its fublime amount,

That 'goodly fellowship,' th' anointed hoft,—
The heroes of the Holy Ghoft."

The words, good reader, are those of Robert Montgomery, from the Sanctuary on "All Saints' Day,"-himself not long after to be numbered with those long dead! who, if he was not a great poet, had great powers, and wished every day of his life to go about doing good.

To one used to a Churchyard these words of the Preacher must come home. "The living know that they shall die," and, in his remarkable Sermon upon this text, preached at the Funeral of Algernon Grevill, Bishop Ezekiel Hopkins makes this plain practical Works, iv. 532, comment upon them. "It is the privilege of the living, that, knowing the frailty of their lives, and the certainty of their dissolution, they may, by repentance and holiness, so prepare themselves for death as to make it only a happy transition from a temporal to an eternal life, and an inlet into endless blifs and joy. We read but of two only of all mankind exempted, by a peculiar grace and privilege, from this hour of death, and they were Enoch and Elias. God ftrangely tacked