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T" OFFERTORIES AND COLLECTIONS AT ST. MARY'S DURING JULY, 1902. July ENGLISH. £ s. d ily 6th, 8 a.m. .019 5> »» 11-30 a.m. .130 >> " 6-30 p.m. .079 „ 13*, 8 a.m. .018 J5 " II-30 a.m. . 1 2 0 »» " 6-30 p.m. ■ ° 7 SH ,, 20th, 11-30 a.m. 1 2 2/2 >> >' 6-30 p.m. • 011 2>y2 „ 27th, 8 a.m. . 007 JJ " 11-30 a.m. . 1 2 4K 6-30 p.m. Total (English) . 0 8 10 ^6 8 11 WELSH. £ s. d. 6th, 10 a.m. . 0 10 »» 6 p.m. .. 0 18 13th, 10 a. m. . 0 8 2</2 >> 6 p.m. . 0 17 slA 20th, 10 a.m. .. 0 10 oy2 ,, 6 p.m. .. 0 18 2*/2 27th, 10 a.m. • 0 7 9% >) 6 p.m. .. 1 2 AVz Total (Welsh) £5 13 Total ,£12 is. lid. July 3rd I3tll I3th 16th 16th 5) 17th 17th 20th )> 27th Tuly 1st 26th 26th 31st J«iy 3rd i) 5th )> 14th- 2Ist- )> 24th 26th >3 29th BAPTISMS. -Eleanor Emma, daughter of Thomas and Emma Elizabeth Jones, Tan'rodyn. -Violet Gwenllyn, daughter of Elizabeth Williams, 17, Fair View Road. -Glynn, son of David and Anne Ellen Jones, 21, Fair View Road. -Lily May, daughter of Patrick and Rose Ethel„Rufrles, New Cottages, Glan'rafon. -John Thomas, son of Thomas and Mirian Evans, New Cottages, Glan'rafon. -Griffith Richard, son of Richard and Elizabeth Evans, 29, Union Street. -Ellen Blodwen, daughter of John and Jane Jones, 27, Union Street. -Alice May, daughter of Joseph and Ellen Bamford, White Lion, High Street. -Katherine Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Annie Walker, 8, Plasllwyd Terrace. MARRIAGES. -Theodore Smith, 42, College Road, to Rhoda Isabel Edwards, Tanworth, Wood Green, Wednesbury, -William John Glover to Caroline Caulfield, 7, Lower Street, Caellepa. -John Jones to Catherine Evans, 7, Garden Square. -William Williams, Waenhir, Tregarth, to Jane Jones, Ty'nypwll, Glasinfryn. 3URIALS. -Elizabeth Thomas, 37, Lonypobty, aged 73 years. -Robert Ellis Parry, 31, Dean Street, aged 5 months. -William Jones, 13, Hugh Street, aged 65 years. -Mary McDermid, Brynmair, Caellepa, aged 57 years. -Henry Jones, 19, Edmund Street, aged 56 years. -Jane Burkey, 6, Tanygraig Terrace, Glanadda, aged 28 years. -David Edwards, Druid Inn, Dean Street, aged 35 years. We have much pleasure in publishing the following sermon which was preached by the Bishop's Chaplain in St. Mary's Church on Coronation Sunday, August 10th. Both those who heard the sermon preached at St. Mary's and those who will now read it will agree with us that no apology is necessary for publishing in extenso so excellent and appropriate a discourse. " There is no power but of God, and the powers that be are ordained of God:'—Rom. xiii., 1. The subject brought under our notice in this paragraph is the duty of Christians in relation to the civil authorities. There is nothing exactly similar to this discussion in any other Epistle of St. Paul, and it is probable that the question is treated in this Epistle on account of some special need of warning and guidance on tins point existing among the Christians in Rome. The Jews at Rome were notorious for their turbulence ; and though the Christians there were mainly Gentile, yet they were closely connected with the Jews, and being actually followers of a Jewish Messiah, they would be very liable to fall under suspicion of revolutionary tendencies. And false notions of the nature of Christ's kingdom might easily mislead some unbalanced minds to think that the loyalty due to Christ alone set them free from any duty or obedience to any other authority. It is the object of St. Paul here to correct any such false idea, and to set before them clearly and definitely their duty of submission and obedience to the supreme ruler of the State. " The organisa¬ tion of human Society, with its distinction of higher and lower ranks, is essential for the preservation of moral order : the state is of God, and the Christian has to recognise its Divine right in the persons and requirements in which it is presented to him." St. Paul does not here touch the question as to what a Christian is to do in those rare cases where there are conflicting claims on his allegiance ; he merely speaks of normal conditions. Law and government are from God, and to those who have the office of administering them Christians must