Then look propitious from thy throne,
And take this temple for thine own."

In the archives of the church the event is thus recorded:

"Know all men by these presents, that we, Richard Channing
Moore, D.D., by Divine permission, Bishop of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Virginia, did consecrate to
the service of Almighty God, on Friday, January 8th, in the
year of our Lord 1880, St. John's Church, in the town of
Hampton, Elizabeth City County. In which church the services of
the Protestant Episcopal Church are to be performed agreeably
to rubrics in such case made and provided. It is always to be
remembered, that Saint John's Church thus consecrated and set
apart to the worship of Almighty God, is by the act of
consecration thus performed, separated from all worldly and
unhallowed uses, and to be considered sacred to the service of
the _Holy and undivided Trinity_.

"In testimony whereof, I have on the day and year above
written, subscribed my hand and affixed my seal.

[Seal.] RICHARD CHANNING MOORE."

The Rev. Mr. Chivers having resigned his afternoon appointment, after
officiating for sixteen years, and ministering to them in their day of
destitution, the Rev. John P. Bausman was elected Rector in 1843, and
resigned in 1845; the Rev. William H. Good was elected in 1845, and
continued until the close of 1848; and the parish remained without
regular rectoral services, until the 1st of January, 1851, when the
writer took charge; since which time an organ (the first one) has been
put up, new pews have been added, and money enough obtained to make
permanent and comfortable repairs. If the design of the true friends of
the church, to make it a temple in which generations to come may worship
God in comfort, fail, the fault and the punishment will lie with those
who "knew their duty and did it not."

FOOTNOTES:

[C] De Quincey.

[D] See Wilberforce's History of the American Church.

[E] Burke Hist. Va.

[F] Stanton's Church Dictionary.

[G] This Jeremy Taylor was very unlike his illustrious namesake, the
Bishop of Down and Conner, for I find by the records, that he was any
thing else but a man of "holy living," whatever else he might have been
when "dying." J C. M.

BROODING-PLACES ON THE FALKLAND ISLANDS.

TRANSLATED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL FROM THE GERMAN.

By the name of "brooding-places," th