17 OCTOBER 1896, Page 16

CHURCH NOTICES.

[To THE EDITOR OF THS 'SPECTATOR.']

you and your readers are not tired of church notices„ let me commend this to their attention, vouched to me by the hearer, a curate of the parish. It was in the thirties, I think, when the whole Kingdom was panic.stricken, and prayer and. fasting under God's visitations had not yet gone out of fashion, that a Somerset congregation were astonished by- their clerk announcing that "Friday next is appointed to be observed as a feast and illumination for the cholera."—I am,