Church's firmament. They are the true glory of Christendom,-lucentes et ardentes-the Cherubim of knowledge, and the Seraphim of love. One celebrated collection alone contains the lives of 25,000 of these heroes of unselfishness'; and how high and grand, how full of poetry and nobleness they are! And if, as many tell us, and as seems, alas, too true,―if, in our refinement and perplexities,-if in our luxury and mammon worship,-if in our despair and faithlessness-the race of these hero souls be past, yet at least the race of the humbler children in God's great family abides. They, thank God, may be counted in their myriads still, and henceforth as heretofore shall the world for which Christ died abound with these beautiful and holy souls. And as the moon can shine only by reflection of the sun, so do these, as they borrow their life and light from the Sun of Righteousness, become the clearest evidence, the predestined issue, the living illustration of their Saviour's work. And while these remain it shall always be believed. Yea, Lord, the enemy may reproach, and the foolish people blaspheme thy name, but that name shall be exalted for ever above every name, for

"The glorious company of the Apostles praise thee.

1 The Bollandist collection. Renan, Ét. d'Hist. Rel. 306. 313. Compare the men whom Christianity has canonised with those who won the apotheosis of heathendom, and we shall have some plummet to sound the moral abyss which yawns between the two religions.

"The goodly fellowship of the Prophets praise thee. "The noble army of Martyrs praise thee.

"The holy Church throughout all the world doth acknowledge thee.

"Thou art the King of Glory, O Christ: Thou art the Everlasting Son of the Father."

V.

CHRISTIANITY AND THE RACE.

"Nous tenons à tout, parceque nous venons de Dieu qui est en tout; rien ne nous est étranger, parceque Dieu n'est étranger nulle part."

LACORDAIRE.