* * * * * MONTHLY PUBLICATIONS. A SECOND SERIES OF “THE MODERN ORATOR,” consisting of a Collection of the Most Celebrated Speeches of the Right Hon. Charles James Fox, is now publishing, in Monthly Parts, price 1s. BAPTIST RECORD and Biblical Repository, price 6d. JEWISH HERALD and RECORD of Christian Efforts for the spiritual good of God’s Ancient People, price 2d. FOOTNOTES. {30} Twenty pounds. J. A. {69} “Dr. Arnold’s Letters.” Vol. ii. p. 170. {70} “Archdeacon (now Bishop of Oxford) Wilberforce’s Charge, 1845,” p. 17. {142} It must not be understood, however, from this statement, that I wished to invite to these expositions only such individuals as are mentioned above, I must candidly confess that it was not altogether without reference to yourselves. I hoped that by these occasional meetings we should come somewhat nearer into contact: and that, as a consequence, feelings of love and of kindness might more diffusively prevail. It afforded me, therefore, real pleasure to see so many of you kindly giving me the meeting on the two evenings on which I have been in your neighbourhood. {146} It has been strangely imagined, and even reported by some, that I do not wish those who consider themselves Methodists to join with the rest of my people in partaking of the sacrament, and that I object likewise to administer it to them at their own houses, when unable to attend the church. I feel pleasure in availing myself of this opportunity of assuring them, that such statements are altogether erroneous. My heart rejoices to see them whenever they attend: for it reminds me of that general assembly in heaven, where all party distinctions will be lost in one common feeling of love, and when we shall all join in sweetest unison in singing that new and never-ending song. My feelings also are similar when kneeling around their beds of sickness, and consecrating those elements of which we are about to partake in remembrance of that Redeemer who has taught us so emphatically that his disciples should love one another. {164} “Unquestionably our aristocratical manners and habits have made us and the poor two distinct and unsympathising bodies; and, from want of sympathy, I fear the transition to enmity is but too easy when distress embitters the feelings, and the sight of others in luxury makes that distress still more intolerable. This is the plague-spot to my mind in our whole state of society, which must be removed, or the whole must perish. And under God it is for the clergy to come forward boldly, and begin to combat it. If you read Isaiah iii., v., and xxxii.; Jeremiah v., xxii., and xxx.; Amos iv.; Habakkuk ii.; and the Epistle of St. James, written to the same people a little before the second destruction of Jerusalem, you will be struck, I think, with the close resemblance of our own state to that of the Jews.”—_Dr. Arnold’s Letters_, vol. i. p. 286.