-- Rectory, Hereford.

_Anathema, Maran-atha._--Perhaps the following observation on these words
may be as instructive to some of the readers of "N. & Q." as it was to me.
Maran-atha means "The Lord cometh," and is used apparently by St. Paul as a
kind of motto: compare [Greek: ho kurios engus], Phil. iv. 5. The Greek
word has become blended with the Hebrew phrase, and the compound used as a
formula of execration. (See Conybeare and Howson's _Life and Epistles of
St. Paul_, p. 64., note 4.)

F. W. J.

_Convocation and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts._--

"When the committee I have mentioned was appointed, March 13, 1700, to
consider what might be done towards _propagating the Christian Religion
as professed in the Church of England in our Foreign Plantations_; and
the committee, composed of very venerable and experienced men, well
suited for such an inquiry, had sat several times at St. Paul's, and
made some progress in the business referred to them, a charter was
presently procured to place the consideration of that matter in other
hands, where it now remains, and will, we hope, produce excellent
fruits. But whatever they are, they must be acknowledged to have sprung
from the overtures to that purpose first made by the lower house of
Convocation."--_Some Proceedings in the Convocation of 1705 faithfully
represented_, p. 10. of Preface.

W. FRASER.

Tor-Mohun.

_Pigs said to see the Wind._--In _Hudibras_, Independant says to Presbyter:

"You stole from the beggars all your tones,
And gifted mortifying groans;
Had lights when better eyes were blind,
_As pigs are said to see the wind_."--Pt. 3. c. ii. l. 1105.

That most delightful of editors, Dr. Zachary Grey, with all his
multifarious learning, leaves us here in the lurch for once with a simple
reference to "Hudibras at Court," _Posthumous Works_, p. 213.

Is this phrase merely an hyperbolic way of saying that pigs are very
sharp-sighted, or is it an actual piece of folk-lore expressing a belief
that pies have the privilege of seeing "the viewless wind?" I am inclined
to take the latter view. Under the head of "Superstitions," in Hone's
_Year-Book_ for Feb. 29, 1831, we find:

"Among common sayings at present are these, _that pigs can see the
wind_," &c.

The version I have always heard of it is--

"Pigs can see the wind 'tis said,
And it seemeth to them _r