17 OCTOBER 1863, Page 3

The Archbishop of Canterbury has pressed on the attention of

some lads in Devonshire a motto which has the archiepiscopal -sanction. It is " Prayer, prudence, and perseverance." There is something curiously English in this alliterative bit of Anglican sobriety, which reminds us of the musician who selected from Scrip- ture for the subject of his great anthem, " Let your moderation be known unto all men." To most of his audience the Archbishop's motto would probably mean, " Pray for prudence and persever- ance." Prudence and perseverance are capital things, but cer- tainly the effect of enumerating them in that connection is to throw back a sort of hard, grey, worldly light on the first word, and make an admirable policy of prayer.