all these into seclusion, and out of seclusion into pleasure at last, at five-and-forty, death seized him and closed his career.

I have been many a time in the chambers in the Temple which were his, and passed up the staircase which Johnson and Burke and Reynolds trod to see their friend, their poet, their kind Goldsmith—the stair on which the poor women sat weeping bitterly when they heard that the greatest and most generous of all men was dead within the black oak door.

Ah! it was a different lot from that for which the poor fellow sighed, when he wrote, with heart yearning for home, those most charming of all fond verses, in which he fancies he revisits Auburn :

In all my wanderings round this world of care,
In all my griefs and God has given my share -
I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown,
Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down;
To husband out life's taper at the close,
And keep the flame from wasting by repose;
I still had hopes for pride attends us still—
Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill,
Around my fire an evening group to draw,
And tell of all I felt and all I saw;

And, as a hare, whom hounds and horn pursue,
Pants to the place from whence at first he flew
I still had hopes, my long vexations past,
Here to return, and die at home at last.

Think of him, reckless, thriftless, vain, if you like -but merciful, gentle, generous, full of love and pity. He passes out of our life, and goes to render his account beyond it. Think of the poor pensioners weeping at his grave; think of the noble spirits that admired and deplored him; think of the righteous pen that wrote his epitaph- and of the wonderful and unanimous response of affection with which the world has paid back the love he gave it.

W. M. THACKERAY.

William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta in 1811. He inherited a considerable fortune, but lost it, partly through his own fault, and partly through the fault of others. For four or five years he studied art, at which he became quite proficient, but was obliged to abandon it, and finally took to literature for a livelihood. His style is of the purest, and as a master of English fiction he stands in the highest rank. He was a voluminous author, and left behind him twenty-five to thirty volumes of essays, poems, and novels. He died in December, 1863.

wayward: willful.-achieve: obtain. dire: dreadful. - Auburn and Wakefield: places mentioned in Goldsn. th's writings. - Lissoy: a village of Ireland.- elegy: mournful poem.-tremulous: trembling. -gaol (in the United States, usually written jail): prison.- vivid: true to the life. versatile: variable. competence: sufficiency. sufficed: been enough. — bailiffs: sheriffs' officers. - Temple: an office building in London. - husband: use with economy. - swains: young. men living in the country.-pensioners: people depending on one.

Christ's Sermon on the Mount.

When Our Lord taught upon earth, He had many disciples, men and women, who followed Him everywhere, believing that He was the Son of God, the Savior. In order to instruct these people He often took them away from the multitudes crowding about Him, and brought them up to the mountains. It was on one of these occasions that He preached the Sermon on the Mount. "Opening His mouth," says the Holy Scriptures, "He taught them, saying:

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are the meek, for they shall possess the land. Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice, for they shall have their fill. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall see the kingdom of God. Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."

After giving these eight beatitudes He also taught that the greatest charity should prevail in the world; and that hatred of our brother was a sin against the fifth commandment. If we have quarreled with our

brother, we must be reconciled. And here, by our brother, is understood every human being with whom we have intercourse. We must see in every one of the human family a brother or a sister, and treat him or her as we would wish to be treated.

"We must love our enemies," He said, and Our Lord Himself does this all through His earthly life, even to the very end of His life, for from the hard wood of the cross He looked up to heaven and prayed that His Father might forgive the unhappy men who had crucified their Redeemer.

It was in this sermon that Christ gave to the world the Prayer of all prayers, the "Our Father," and taught that we cannot serve two masters the world and

God at the same time. We must not endeavor to lay up riches for ourselves but rather to think of heavenly riches first, which are prayer and good works and charitable deeds. "Behold," He said, Behold," He said, "the birds of the air.

They neither sow nor reap, yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are you not of more value than they? Consider the lilies of the field how they grow, they labor not, neither do they spin: yet not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed like one of these."

Our Lord went on to say that we must not judge others that we may not be judged, and that if we ask anything from God, it shall be given us. Here it was