—An old act of Parliament declares
that “every preacher in his sermon
shall exhort, move, suir, and provoke
people to be liberal, and bountifully
to extend their good and charitable
dispositions from time to time toward
the comfort of the impotent, and the
setting and keeping to continual
work of sturdy vagabonds and val
iant beggars.”
—'The Convocation of York refuses
to join with that of Canterbury in
bringing about a revision of the
English Bible, and the Convocation
of Canterbury has resolved to under
take the work, and to ask the aid of
all religious denominations through
out the English-speaking world. It
is said that an adequate revision will
on an average change one word in
every verse of the New Testament;
and many whole verses, and some
that are considered very important
ones, will be left out altogether.
How to Drive a Young Horse.—
We find the following floating, and
do not know its paternity, but it is
good advice: “In teaching a young
horse how to drive well, do not hur
ry to see how fast he will trot. Keep
each pace clear and distinct from the
other ; that is, in walking make him
walk, and do not allow him to trot.
