DISCOVERY OF PAPYRUS WITH MUNIFICENT ENDOWMENT TO AT a soiree given by the Rev. Mr. Robertson and his lady to the members of the Free Church congregation, Burrelton, and a A WORK of great interest will shortly be published, containing a fac simile of some fragments of papyrus upon which number of other friends, and held in the Free are written portions of St. Matthew's Gospel, being the earliest yet disco- Church on the evening of the 30th ult., James vered. The writing is by Nicholaus, Mailler, Esq., farmer, East Hatten, was prethe seventh deacon, who wrote at the sented with a beautiful silver snuff box, and a dictation of St. Matthew himself. It very handsome silver-mounted walking-staff, appears that Mr. Stobart discovered, as an expression of the regard entertained for in a sarcophagus at Thebes, several him by the congregation, and of their grati papyri, which, upon his arrival in Eng- tude to him for a munificent endowment reland, he disposed of, partly to the British Museum, and partly to Mr. cently given for local Free Church objects. Meyer, of Liverpool. This gentleman The Rev. Mr. Robertson, minister of the obtained the assistance of Dr. K. congregation, who was in the chair, explainSimonides, who unrolled the various ed the nature and objects of the endowment, papyri, and made the discovery that which consists of the sum of £1,900, and upon one of them were transcribed which has been invested in four per cent. percertain portions of St. Matthew's Gos-petual preference railway stock, in the name of pel, bearing the following inscription: three trustees on behalf of the congregation. The writing by the hand of Nicholaus The annual interest accruing there from is the deacon, at the dictation of Matthew, to be allocated according to the following the apostle of Jesus Christ. It was done in the fifteenth year after the provisions-viz., £25 as supplement to the ascension of our Lord, and was distri- stipend of the minister of the congregation buted to the believing Jews and Greeks of Burrelton; £25 to be devoted as a perin Palestine." The papyrus, though petual contribution to the Sustentation torn and injured, is of great interest, Fund through the local congregational asas it clears up several passages, and sociation; £15 to increase the salary of the supplies us with some lost verses. This teacher of the congregational school; and was probably the very MS. that Herthe remaining £11 to be entrusted to lady modorus copied seven times during the life of St. Matthew, and seven times almoners for the relief of deserving poor in after his death. It is written in the the congregation and district. Greek uncial character. Our English Messrs. Stuart, Blair-Atholl, and Cooke of version was translated from the eleventh Auchtergaven, being present, also addressed copy, preserved in one of the Eastern the meeting, which was numerously atmonasteries, which contains several tended and most harmonious throughout. errors. It is to be regretted that the papyri in the British Museum still lie unrolled and unexamined. Messrs. Trübner will publish the work of Dr. Simonides, and they anticipate a very large circulation, as the subject is of The Rev. BURSARY BY THE LATE PRO- THE late Professor Pyper of St. An course one of great interest both to the drews, has left £500 to found a bursary Christian and literary world.—Literary in St. Andrew's University, and it is to come Gazette. into operation next session. London: R. K. BURT, Printer, Holborn Hill. THE ENGLISH PRESBTYERIAN MESSENGER. 1862. VOL. XIII.-NEW SERIES. LONDON: MARLBOROUGH & Co., AVE MARIA LANE. ORIGINAL PAPERS. The Old Year and the New, 1 The Mother of Oliver Cromwell, 42 The Present Position of Protestantism and What Mothers Can Do, 47 Popery, 2 Haltwhistle Church in Cumberland, 10 The Late Dr. Lawson of Selkirk, 36 Our Church: Her Progress and Prospects, 65 The Westminster Confession Explained, not Presbyterianism-Its Place, Present and The Approaching Synod, 129 Something Wrong among the Young Men, Topics of Present Interest, 237 Revival Leaders and Revival Lessons, 238 The Two Thousand Confessors-Their Great Revival Work-Its Dangers and Duties, Our Calvinistic Brethren in Wales, 275 Importance of High Class English Presby- The Nearness of the Righteousness of God MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. Proposed Week of Special Prayer at the Commencement of the Year 1862, 11 The Rev. Behari Lal Singh, 12 Searching After God, 46 The Sabbath School, 48 The late Rev. John Newton's Family The Cripple of London Wall, 76 Man's Great Want, 79 None the Poorer for Giving, 81 Chinese Philosopher, Laou-tse, and his Con How Queen Victoria Brings Up her Chil- Teach Me to Know Mine End, and the "Gifts of Healing," 111 Baxter Useful to Ministers, 137 Checkered Providence, 139 Employment of the Queen's Family, 140 Christians Unchristianizing, 141 One of the Controversies in the Saxon Our Single Women, 168 Notes Regarding Several Presbyterian Con- Manchester and Liverpool Free Libraries, 212 A Lesson which a Minister taught his Con The Claims of England as they appear to Superstitions of the Maories of New School Collections, 246 Zealand, 15 Sunset and Death, 16 The Annual Report of the School Com mittee, 1862, 249 1 Burials of Nonconformists in Churchyards, | Another Hint anent the Bicentenary, 115 268 Revival in Sweden, 279 Persecution in Spain, 281 Mr. Radcliffe at Geneva, 282 A Midnight Scene in the Haymarket, 283 Loving our Enemies, 284 Mr. Gilpin, 284 Humanity, 284 A Dying Girl and her Father, 284 Quarterly Association of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists, 315 Young Women's Christian Associations and Homes, 318 Theological Education in England, 338 Opening of the Session of the English Presbyterian College, 339 What led to Dr. Guthrie's becoming an Abstainer, 343 Social Meeting at River Terrace, Islington, 334 Questions relating to the Primacy, 363 The Bishop of Oxford and the Duty of Selling a Parish, 364 England and America, 115 Irish Aid to English Presbyterian Home Missions, 147 Foreign Missions, 148 The Juvenile Mission Fund, 149 The Hexham Church, 150 The First Step to the Union of Presbyterian Help from Ireland and Scotland, 376 The Rev. George Bell and W. S. W., 252-254 The Rev. George Bell, 291, 349 The Rev. W. Nicholson, 293 John Reid, 320 Evangel," 321 "An Office-bearer," 349 The Rev. Robert Steel, 349 PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN ENGLAND. Circulation of the MESSENGER, 23 Collections and Donations, 23, 56, 89, 122, 156, 221, 260, 294, 326, 358, 384 Home Mission, 55 Ordination of a Ruling Elder in Con- State of Religion, 89 necticut, in 1645, 371 The Christian Race, 371 The Evangelical Missionary Church of Belgium, 372 A Church Transferred to the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists, 372 Proposed Week of Special Prayer, 372 China, 17, 49, 81, 187, 214, 285, 351, 377 A Protestant Missionary in Pekin, 53 Missionary Efforts in the Hautes Alpes of Report of the Home Mission Committee, 1862, 380 CORRESPONDENCE. Our Church's Mission to India, 19 A Suggestion for the Bicentenary, 87 The College, Endowment Fund, 113, 147,252 Deputation from Home Mission Committee, 390 General Beckwith, 297 Gateshead-Presentation-English Presby- Opening of the Presbyterian Church at INTELLIGENCE. Evening College Classes, 27 terian Church, 27 St. Columbas, Leeds, 28 Birkenhead New Schools, 28 Grosvenor Square, Manchester, 28, 390 Death of the Prince Consort, 29 Death of Principal Cunningham, 30 Alderney, 327 Opening of the New Presbyterian Church, Carlton Hill, St. John's Wood, 332 The Scotch Church, North Shields, 360 Death of the Rev. Thomas Duncan of Birdhopecraig, 361 NOTICES OF BOOKS. Presbyterian The Leisure Hour, 21 Crewe Working Men's Church, 60 Newbiggin-by-the-Sea-New Presbyterian Young Men's Society of the Presbyterian Communication from the Synod School Translation of the Rev. Dr. Steel of The Sunday at Home, 21 Memorials of Serjeant William Marjouram, Hymns of Faith and Hope, 22 British and Foreign Evangelical Review, 22 Old Jonathan, 23, 88, 121, 153 Memorable Women of Puritan Times, 53 Gold from the Christian Treasury, 54 The Exiled Family and their Restorer, 54 Michael Church, Eseley, Herefordshire, 95 The Lifeboat, 54 United Presbyterian Church, 95 Death of the Rev. Dr. Symington, 96 St. Bartholomew's Day, 96 The Finsbury Prebend, 160 Harbottle, 265 Woolwich, 294 Haltwhistle, 295 Newcastle, 295, 388, 389 Presbyterianism in Victoria, 295 Royal Truths, 55 Memoirs of Rev. H. Wight, 88 The Words of the Angels, 120 Memorial of Rev. T. Duncan, 151 The British Workman, 153 How to Make the Best of Both Worlds, Bacon's Thoughts on Holy Scripture, 235 Great Missionaries, 266 The Last Day of Our Lord's Passion, 267 The late Mr. John S. Finch, Elder of River A Filial Tribute, 268 Trinity Presbyterian Church, Hampstead, Countess of Mar's Arcadia, 361 391 Manual of Devotion for St. Augustin, 362 |