One of the most elaborate paintings in any part of the Catacombs, is a representation of our LORD's baptism, discovered in the cemetery of Pontianus. It will be observed, he is portrayed standing in the Jordan, with John the Baptist pouring water upon his head with his hand.

Another common representation is that of our LORD placing his hand on the head of a child and blessing it. The one we have copied is from the

cemetery of St. Callistus. We have placed by its side, our LORD conversing with the woman of Samaria at the well, taken from a sarcophagus in the. Vatican. It is a scene repeated in many forms.

We frequently meet, too, with our Lord's triumphant entrance into Jerusalem, the people with palm-branches and strewing their garments in the way, while Zacchæus, who is the unfailing accompaniment in this scene, is seen in the tree. With his early followers, this was not only an exhibition of our LORD's triumph in the days of his flesh, but it foreshadowed also his ultimate entrance as the King of Glory into the New Jerusalem. The following representation is the most elaborate we

have met with, and is taken from a sarcophagus in the Vatican.

The miracles of our Savior, however, were the subjects on which the early Christians most delighted to dwell. Strangely represented, indeed, yet always in such a way that we at once recognise the intention and design. In the following, our LORD is portrayed when "a certain woman which

had an issue of blood twelve years, came in the press behind and touched his garments; and Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned about in the press and said, "Who touched my clothes?"

There is another of a much later date, on a sarcophagus, which we copy on account of the accompanying views. It brings before us a specimen of Church architecture in the end of the fourth century, to which period the details of this picture enable us to refer it with tolerable certainty. We see before us a complete Christian basilica (apparently the same one repeated in several positions), with the circular baptistry at the side, yet detached from it. At the end of the building, on the right, we see the terminating absis. Before the doors hang those veils which are even now common in the Italian churches, to aid in preserving an equa