I should be disposed to _extend_ the boundaries of this division, and to include under "Religious Feelings and Religious Observances" many anecdotes which belong perhaps rather indirectly than directly to the subject.
There is a very interesting reminiscence, and one of a sacred character also, which I think will come very suitably under this head.

When I joined the Scottish Episcopal Church, nearly fifty years ago, it was quite customary for members of our communion to ask for the blessing of their Bishop, and to ask it especially on any remarkable event in their life, as marriage, loss of friends, leaving home, returning home, etc.; and it was the custom amongst the old Scottish Episcopalians to give the blessing in a peculiar form, which had become venerable from its traditionary application by our bishops.

I have myself received it from my bishop, the late good Bishop Walker, and have heard him pronounce it on others.

But whether the custom of asking the bishop's blessing be past or not, the form I speak of has become a reminiscence, and I feel assured is not known even by some of our own bishops.

I shall give it to my readers as I received it from the family of the late Bishop Walker of Edinburgh:-- "God Almighty bless thee with his Holy Spirit; Guard thee in thy going out and coming in; Keep thee ever in his faith and fear; Free from Sin, and safe from Danger." I have been much pleased with a remark of my friend, the Rev.W.
Gillespie of the U.P.Church, Edinburgh, upon this subject.