pulpit was covered with gold leaf, and the altar protected by an iron railing with a silver balustrade, ornamented with six silver pillars about two feet high, and two angels standing as guardians on the steps. In front of the altar, in a rich shrine, is an image of the Saviour on the cross, "our Lord of Esquipulas," to whom the church is consecrated, famed for its power of working miracles. Every year thousands of devotees ascend the steps of his temple on their knees, or laden with a heavy cross, who are not permitted to touch the sacred image, but go away contented in obtaining a piece of riband stamped with the words "Dulce nombre de Jesus."

We returned to the convent, and while I was sitting with Colonel San Martin the curate entered, and, closing the door, asked me if my servant was faithful. Augustin's face was an unfortunate letter of recommendation. Colonel M'Donald, Don Francisco, and, as I afterward heard, General Cascara, distrusted him. I told the cura all I knew of him, and mentioned his conduct at Comotan; but he still cautioned me to beware of him. Soon after, Augustin, who seemed to suspect that he had not made a very favourable impression, asked me for a dollar to pay for a confession. My intelligent friend was not free from the prejudices of education; and though he could not at once change his opinion so warmly expressed, he said that Augustin had been well brought up.

In the course of the day I had an opportunity of seeing what I afterward observed throughout all Central America: the life of labour and responsibility passed by the cura in an Indian village, who devotes himself faithfully to the people under his charge. Besides officiating in all the services of the church, visiting the

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sick, and burying the dead, my worthy host was looked up to by every Indian in the village as a counsellor, friend, and father. The door of the convent was always open, and Indians were constantly resorting to him a man who had quarrelled with his neighbour; a Zapotecans of Mexico Discoveries by Prof. Seville

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HE mine of archæological records which has been found in Mex- a ico has just furnished another addition to our knowledge of the . ancient civilizations which preceded the appearance of the Spands. Professor Marshall N. Saville of the American Museum of atural History, has now returned from an exploratory journey, during ich he has paid special attention to the Zapotecans, that ancient race ich was as distant and as different from the Aztecs as from the Mayas Yucatan.

The chief scene of Professor Saville's labors was in the neighborod of the town of Oaxaca. The very numerous mounds with which e vicinity is covered, and the occasional chance discovery of fragmentworks of art has long indicated this district as one worthy of archægical attention, and the results in the present case are certainly surprisin their interest and variety.

The mounds in question are of various shapes and sizes, and it was edily discovered that the external form was a trustworthy clue to the tents. The pyramidal mounds disclosed temples with firm foundans and columns, while those rectangular in shape were tombs. Within tombs were found portions of skeletons painted red, and numbers of ense burners and jadeite beads. The human teeth which came to at were decorated by the insertion of pieces of hematite.

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The most remarkable tomb was found at Xoxo. Its floor was covdwith food utensils and censers, and the bones which it contained re all painted red. The walls had evidently been decorated in colors tthen covered with stucco, on which pictures were painted in black, ht most of this decorative work had fallen to the ground and been lost. er the doors were hieroglyphic inscriptions of a kind hitherto unown, and, of which the decipherment may throw some additional light n this clamant to archæological research and interest. STUDENT

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pulpit was covered with gold leaf, and the altar protected by an iron railing with a silver balustrade, ornamented with six silver pillars about two feet high, and two angels standing as guardians on the steps. In front of the altar, in a rich shrine is an image of

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ANOTHER VIEW

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THE CANYON

ABOVE EAGLE'S NEST

Sunrise at Sea

by EPES SARGENT

HEN the mild weather came,

WHEN

And set the sea on flame,

How often would I rise before the sun,

And from the masts behold

The gradual splendors of the sky unfold,
Ere the first line of disk had yet begun,
Above the horizon's arc

To show the faming gold,

Across the purple dark!

One perfect dawn how well I recollect,

When the whole East was flecked

With flashing streaks and shafts of amethyst,

While a light crimson mist

Went up before the mounting luminary

And all the strips of cloud began to vary

Their hues, and all the zenith seemed to ope,
As if to show a cope beyond the cope!

How reverently calm the ocean lay
At the bright birth of that celestial day!
How every little vapor, robed in state,
Would melt and dissipate

Before the augmenting ray,

Till the victorious orb rose unattended,

And every billow was his mirror splendid.

ciating in all the services of the church, visiting the

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sick, and burying the dead, my worthy host was looked up to by every Indian in the village as a counsellor, friend, and father. The door of the convent was always open, and Indians were constantly resorting to him a man who had quarrelled with his neighbour; a wife who had been badly treated by her husband.

r. It would bring joy to thousands who are now unhappy and ill at ease. Before we can fill our lives with a peace that is ever rich and abiding, must follow the two great laws-the one, that we find our own life osing it in the service of others; the other, that all life is one with, part of, the Infinite Life. We are not material but spiritual beings,

to live as such brings us to a realization of the higher, the God, The recognition of these two laws enables one to grow and develop ng right lines, and they are the two gates whereby all who would ust enter the kingdom of heaven.

When we become at one with humanity by bringing our lives into rmony with the great law of love, service and devotion, life will be aceful and joyful. Around this great altar of brotherliness can all ankind stand with clasped hands. To it can all religions and creeds bscribe. It is the universal religion. The more of all that is best in ur own life that we give to others, the more happy and peaceful our wn life becomes.

This is an expression of one of the greatest truths, of one of the reatest principles of practical ethics the world has thus far seen. In a ingle word, it is service, the highest expression of brotherhood.

"Are we not all children of one father?" "God has made of one lood all nations to dwell on the face of the earth."

This one great truth, if firmly laid hold of, and made the fundanental principle of one's life, will make that life peaceful and genuinely happy. This principle, if universally adopted, would wonderfully change his old world, and it is for its coming that the world has long been waitng. In place of the gloom and despair it would bring Truth, Light and Liberation. S. B.

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, said, with a faint smile, that the cross was his pr tection; and then he put his thin hand in mine, and

pulpit was covered with gold leaf, and the altar protected by an iron railing with a silver balustrade, ornamented with six silver pillars about two feet high, and two angels standing as guardians on the steps. In front of the altar, in a rich shrine is

N Utah have recently been discovered evidences of a civilization tedating that which gave to the world the Pyramids and the Sphi Dr. Kekeler, now in Salt Lake City, an archæologist who has m researches in many lands, says:

In my opinion there are cities in Central America which antedate the Pyran and which prove that a mighty civilization existed here thousands of years bet the Sphinx was known. In the course of time this civilization was carried ea ward to Egypt, India and other lands.

Dr. Kekeler has discovered statutes of men and of animals, whi have on them hieroglyphic characters quite similar to those found in th ruins of the most ancient of Asiatic cities. In many Western states an in Lower California, have also been found evidences of prehistoric race and of a glorious prehistoric civilization. When our archæologists hav given to these localities the attention they merit our knowledge of an tiquity will be enormously widened. STUDENT

Inscriptions of the Early Hindus

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HE Hindus were familiar with the art of making letters as early as the Seventh century. These letters were at first used only for cut inscriptions, not for written compositions. Ages before palm leaf was scratched and lettered the chiseled rock was known in India. The most sacred literature of India was committed to memory by specialists who devoted their lives to learning and to preserving the traditional literature. Years later when writing was known, it was considered wrong to vulgarize sacred writings by working them out in visible form. The best pr a Hindu scholar's mind is his memory.

And every

I the services of the church, visiting the