The curate's manual, with reference to the sick and dying, from the Lat. [Tractatus de visitatione infirmorum] with additions, original and selected, by K. Trimmer

of Sickness) has been added, at the suggestion of a clerical friend, for the personal convenience of the Curate. The same method has been observed as in the preceding case ;—the Collects are brought into successive order, but how many of them shall be said is still left to be determined by what “the time and present exigence will suffer.”

Any deficiency that may be found in the Catalogue of Sins is supplied in the succeeding Decalogue, which embraces the whole of moral duty.

In the Short Prayers that next occur, the weakness and infirmity of the mind when the body suffers have been regarded.

The Scriptural Selections are for the most part based upon the method of teaching observed by Him who spake as “never man spake;" who indirectly carried conviction to the sinner's heart, and impressed the truths and consolations of the Gospel upon His hearers by parabolic sermons; the remaining portions of Holy Writ either direct attention to leading doctrines and duties of Christianity in the Founder's words, or set forth in engaging view the example He has left us, and the happy change which His resurrection will effect in the condition of His saints.

Simplicity of language and idea has not been lost sight of in the pieces of Devotional Poetry which close the Manual. Is there any one whose experience does not bear testimony to the influence and solace of a divine song? The stubborn heart may sometimes be won ; the attention of the thoughtless gained; the sinner led to penitence and prayer ; and the afflicted spirit encouraged to rejoice in the midst of tribulation.

“ Non omnes eadem mirantur amantque:
Quid dem ? quid non dem? renuis quod tu, jubet alter.”

Should, however, this Manual prove at all serviceable to those who have the cure of souls, and in any degree, however slight, be instrumental in helping the Sick and Dying on the “ way that leadeth unto everlasting life;"—then the hours spent in its compilation will not have been uselessly employed.

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