49. So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just.

50. And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

51. Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord.

152. Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven, is like unto a man that is a householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.

A.D. 28.

Autumn.

BY THE SEA OF GALILEE NEAR CAPERNAUM.

MIDDLE OF
SECOND YEAR.
THE YEAR OF
DEVELOPMENT.

THINGS NEW
AND OLD.

FISHING FOR MEN.-I. The world is the sea from which the Church gathers men.

2. No comparison thus could have made plainer to the minds of those fishermen that the Church was destined in the future to extend immensely, for the net is much larger than the field of any

sower.

3. Good and bad were to be brought into the church in the very act of seeking for good or that which becomes good, because the Church can no more read the hearts of men than the fishermen can see the kinds of fish which the seine is gathering from the sea. The sting-rays, the torpedoes, and the sardines, insignificant in themselves but troublesome from their numbers, are all types of men who have been brought unwittingly into the Church, but do not belong there.

Bank of

49. THE ANGELS SHALL SEVER THE WICKED FROM AMONG THE JUST." In the Bank of England is a curious machine, into which sovereigns are poured, like grain into a mill. As they pass on one by one, all that are of light weight are thrown to one side, those of full weight to another. So that the distinction is made with unerring certainty. So will it be at the last day. No sin will pass the Great Judge undetected. He knows the secrets of all hearts. Whatever has lain undiscovered by men will stand forth in naked reality then. Counterfeit Christianity and spurious philanthropy will be exposed."

England

Tests.

52. THINGS NEW AND OLD.-Some of the new things are far better than the old. Sometimes the old are better. I have been

53. And it came to pass that when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed thence.

54. And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works?

55. Is not this the carpenter's son ? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas ?

Cologne Cathedral Windows.

told by those who deal in stained glass, in response to a question as to why we could not make as beautiful colors as those, for instance, in the Cologne cathedral windows, that age was necessary to the richness of those colors. The windows have an inch thick of dust upon them; and when the windows of an English cathedral were washed at one time, the perfection of their beauty vanished.

55. IS NOT THIS THE CARPENTER'S SON ?-Moses was the son of a poor slave Levite; Gideon was a thresher; David was a shepherd boy; Euripides was the son of a fruiterer; Virgil, of a baker; Horace, of a freed slave; Tamerlane, of a shepherd; Ben Jonson, Examples. of a mason; Shakespeare, of a butcher; Melancthon, the

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great theologian of the Reformation, was an armorer; Luther was the child of a poor miner; Fuller was a farm servant; Carey, the originator of the plan of translating the Bible into the language of the millions of Hindostan, was a shoemaker; Morrison, who translated the Bible into the Chinese language, was a lastmaker; Dr. Milne was a herd-boy; Adam Clarke was the child of Irish cotters.

JOSEPH THE CARPENTER.

"Isn't this Joseph's son?' Aye, it is He.
'Joseph the carpenter '-same trade as me!
I thought as I'd find it, I knew it was here,
But my sight's getting queer.

"I don't know right where as His shed might ha' stood,
But often, as I've been a-planing my wood,

I've took off my hat just with thinking of He

At the same work as me.

56. And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things?

57. And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.

58. And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

'He warn't that set up that He couldn't stoop down
And work in the country for folks in the town,
And I'll warrant He felt a bit pride like I've done
At a good job begun.

“The parson he knows that I'll not make too free,
But on Sundays I feel as pleased as can be
When I wears my clean smock and sets in a pew
And has thoughts not a few.

"I think of as how not the parson hissen,

As is teacher and father and shepherd of men,
Not he knows as much of the Lord in that shed
Where He earned His own bread.

"And when I goes home to my missus, says she,

'Are you wanting your key?'

A.D. 28.

Autumn.

BY THE SEA OF GALILEE NEAR CAPERNAUM.

MIDDLE OF SECOND YEAR.

THE YEAR OF DEVELOPMENT.

THE CARPENTER'S SON.

For she knows my queer ways and my love for the shed
(We've been forty years wed).

"So I comes right away by mysen with the Book,
And I turns the old pages and has a good look
For the text as I've found as tells me as He
Were the same trade with me.

"Why don't I mark it? Ah, many says so!
But I think I'd as lief, with your leave, let it go.
It do seem that nice when I fall on it sudden,
Unexpected, you know."

-Anonymous.

Quoted in Speer's The Man Christ Jesus. REFERENCE. See on ii. 23. Murillo's picture of The Angels in

the Kitchen.

LIBRARY." Blessed be Drudgery," by W. C. Gannett; Browning's poems, "The Boy and the Angel."

CHAPTER XIV.

1. At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus,

2. And said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.

3. For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife.

A.D. 29.
March.

THIRD YEAR.
THE YEAR OF
WORKING AND
TEACHING.
DEATH OF
JOHN THE
BAPTIST.

2. THIS IS JOHN THE BAPTIST; he is Risen from the DeaD.— The Roman poet Persius illustrates by Herod "the effect of superstitious fear in marring all the pleasures of pride and luxurious pomp."

The memory of his crime doubtless haunted him, as Banquo's ghost haunted Macbeth with its silent horror

"My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,

And every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain."

-Shakespeare.

Compare Lady Macbeth walking in her sleep. "All the perfumes of Arabia cannot sweeten this little hand."

LIBRARY.-Hood's poems, "Eugene Aram"; Classical Dictionary, The Furies."

"

HAUNTED MEN.-"How Herod was haunted by the ghost of his 'sin-recall the witness of Abel's blood from the ground against Cain; and the self-reproaches of Joseph's brethren, when the memory of their sin came upon them in after years; and the story of the man who, to gain an inheritance, flung his brother into the sea, and, ever after, when he looked upon water, saw his brother's dead face staring up from the depths. There is one stone in the floor of an old church in Scotland which stares out at you blood-red from the gray stones around it. The legend tells of a murder committed there, and of repeated fruitless attempts to cover the tell-tale color of that stone. Morally, the legend is true; every dead sin sends its ghost to haunt the soul of the guilty."-H. C. Trumbull.

Shakespeare represents Richard III. as seeing a vision in his sleep just before his last battle, in which appear the ghosts of those whom he had murdered. One by one they come, rehearse the crimes he had committed upon them, and cry, Despair and die. Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow."

A.D. 29.
March.

THIRD YEAR.
DEATH OF
JOHN THE
BAPTIST.

Nero was haunted by the ghost of his mother, whom he had put to death. Caligula suffered from want of sleep, being haunted by the faces of his murdered victims. Every one knows Victor Hugo's beautiful poem, "La Conscience," the story of Cain fleeing away before the eye of God.

The old Greek stories of Prometheus with the gnawing vulture. The Furies of classic mythology "are commonly represented as brandishing each a torch in one hand and a scourge of snakes in the other."

LIBRARY.-Hawthorne's "Mosses from an Old Manse," Vol. II., "The bosom serpent," where the chief character continually exclaims, "It gnaws me."

JOHN HUSS' DREAM.-"When John Huss lay in prison, condemned to be burned alive as a heretic, he dreamed that the images of Christ painted on the walls of his chapel of prayer were obliterated by the pope. The dream greatly afflicted him. The next day he dreamed that several painters were employed in restoring the images in greater number and increasing brilliancy. Their work completed, a large concourse of people surrounded them and shouted, "Now let the pope and bishops come; they will never be able to efface them again." The people of Bethlehem, where he had labored, greatly rejoiced, and he was a partaker in their joy. Speaking to a faithful friend of this dream, he said: "I hold this for certain, that the image of Christ shall never be effaced. They have wished to destroy it, but it shall be painted again in the hearts of men by painters abler than myself. The nation which loves Jesus Christ will rejoice thereat, and I, awakening from the dead, and reviving as it were from the grave, shall thrill with great joy." Then he went joyfully to the stake, where soon afterward Jerome of Prague was burned by the same persecuting power. A century passed away, during which the witnesses for Christ were everywhere silenced, and His image seemed about to be obliterated, and under