240. APPARATUS in the Church. Six years ago I went to the Adirondacks with a hunting and fishing apparatus loaned me by a friend. The apparatus was worth about £100. If the trout and the deer of Saranac Lake and John Brown's Tract could have understood my baggage, they would have been very apprehensive. Such reels! Such bait - boxes! Such cartridges ! Such Bradford flies! Such pocket-flasks for soda water and lemonade! Suffice it to say, I did not interfere with the happiness of the piscatory or zoological world. While I was laboriously getting ready, a mountaineer with an old blunderbuss shot three deer. I found that splendid apparatus did not imply great execution. What is true in the woods is true in the Church. All our elaborate and costly theological apparatus is a failure if we cannot catch souls-Talmage.

241. APPEAL, Effects of a personal. On once dining at a friend's house in the country I met a gentleman and his wife who came to join us. Before dinner I was requested by the lady to accompany her to a little distance. I was conducted to a mound near the front of the house, out of which rose a large tree with seats around its trunk. She pointed to one which she wished me to occupy for a few moments with herself. I complied, wondering what might be her intention. She then informed me that, several years before, on that very seat, I had discoursed to her, when the inmate of a boardingschool which I had visited, on the love of Christ, and His being willing to save all who yielded themselves to Him. This casual conversation led her to surrender to that Saviour whose disciple she became. She had not felt emboldened to make this known to me in any formal way, but could not resist the desire to do so on the very spot which had become endeared to her, and was to me ever afterwards an object of interest.—Leifchild (abridged).

242. APPEARANCES, Care for. The great Samuel Clarke was fond of robust exercise; and this profound logician has been found leaping over tables and chairs. Once perceiving a pedantic fellow, he said, "Now we must desist, for a fool is coming in."—I. D'Israeli.

243. APPEARANCES, Deceptive. I have heard of one who felt convinced that there must be some thing in the Roman Catholic religion, from the extremely starved and pinched appearance of a certain ecclesiastic. "Look," said he, "how the man is worn to a skeleton by his daily fastings and nightly vigils! How he must mortify his flesh!" Now, the probabilities are that the emaciated priest was labouring under some internal disease, which he would have been heartily glad to be rid of, and it was not conquest of appetite, but failure in digestion, which had so reduced him; or possibly a troubled conscience, which made him fret himself down to the light weights. Certainly I have never met with a text which mentions prominence of bone as an evidence of grace. If so, "the Living Skeleton" should have been exhibited, not merely as a natural curiosity, but as the standard of virtue. Some of the biggest rogues in the world have been as mortified in appearance as if they had lived on locusts and wild honey. It is a very vulgar error to suppose that a melancholy countenance is the index of a gracious heart.-Spurgeon.

244. APPEARANCES, Deceptive. I stood a little while ago in a cheesemonger's shop, and being in a fidgety humour, and having a stick in my hand, I did what most Englishmen are sure to do-I was not content with seeing, but must needs touch as well. My stick came gently upon a fine cheese in the window, and to my surprise a most metallic sound emanated from it. The sound was rather hollow, or one might have surmised that all the taste-holes had been filled up with sovereigns, and thus the cheese had been greatly enriched and the merchant had been his own banker. There was, however, a sort of crockery jingle in the sound, like the ring of a huge bread or milk pan, such as our country friends use so abundantly, and I came to the very correct conclusion that I had found a very well-gotup hypocrite in the shop window. Mark, from this time, when I pass by, I mentally whisper, "Pottery;" and the shams may even be exchanged for realities, but I shall be long in believing it.-Spurgeon.

245. APPEARANCES, Deceptive. Rabbi Joshua, the son of Chananiah, was a very learned and very wise man, but he was ugly. His complexion was so dark that he was nicknamed "The Blacksmith," and little children ran away from him. Yet his wisdom and learning caused him to be esteemed by every one, and even the Emperor Trajan treated him with much consideration. One day, when the Rabbi went to court, the Emperor's daughter laughed at his ugliness, and said with a smile, "Rabbi, I wonder how it is that such great wisdom as yours should be contained in such an ugly head." Rabbi Joshua kept his temper, and, instead of replying, asked, "Princess, in what vessels does your august father keep his wine?" "In earthen jars, to be sure," replied she.

"Indeed!" exclaimed the Rabbi, feigning surprise. "Why, all the common people keep their wine in earthen jars; the Emperor's wine should be kept in handsome vessels." The Princess thought that Rabbi Joshua, who always said such clever things, was really in earnest; so off she went to the chief butler, and ordered him to pour all the Emperor's wine out of the earthen jars into gold and silver vessels, earthen jars being unworthy of such precious drink. The butler followed these orders; but when the wine came to the royal table it had turned sour, and tasted quite flat. The next time the Princess met the Rabbi Joshua she expressed her astonishment at his having given her such a strange piece of advice, and said, “Do you know, Rabbi, that all that fine wine that I poured into the gold and silver vessels turned sour?" "Then you have learned a simple lesson, Princess," was the Rabbi's reply; "wine is best kept in common vessels: so is wisdom." The next time the Princess met the clever Rabbi she did not laugh at his ugly face.

246. APPEARANCES, Deceptive. The second man to whom I gave a copy of the Testament was a Brahmin and a family priest. The first thing I heard about him afterwards was from the teacher who saw him standing in front of the village idol. At such a sight his heart sank within him. Here is the man who reads the Testament worshipping that stone, he thought. He hesitated whether he should wait to speak to him or not. He did wait; and what was his joy when the man returned from the idol to find that he had been there to read his Testament undisturbed, and that there it was concealed under his arm!-Rev. J. Stone.

255. APPETITE, Master of. No man whose appetites are his masters can perform his duties with strictness and regularity. He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions. When the Roman General, sitting at supper with a plate of turnips before him, was solicited by a large promise to betray his trust, he asked the messengers whether he that could sup on turnips was a man likely to sell his country.-Dr. Johnson.

256. APPETITE, Perils of Cato the Censor, rebuking the Romans for their luxury, said, "It is hard, fellow-citizens, to address the stomach, because it has no ears. Pointing to a man who had squandered an estate near the sea, he pretended to admire him, saying, "What the sea could not swallow without great difficulty this man has gulped down with perfect ease."--Cyclopædia of Biography. 257. APPETITE, Ungovernable. William Collins, the painter, notes in his diary a certain dinner where he sat next to H, who took some highly seasoned omelet. "I asked him how he could venture on such stuff; he said he could not resist it, though he knew how he should suffer from it. He took a great deal of wine to overcome the effects of the omelet, and assured me he should be ill for four days after such a dinner, and that he always suffered in the same way. How absurd such weakness appears, and yet how common it is!"Francis Jacox.

258. APPETITE, Unrestrained, cause of death. The lampreys that were one too many for Henry the king were one too many for Thrale the brewer. He begged some of an old friend, and the old friend complied, despite the frowns and negative signals of the ladies of the house, whom, following out of the room, the too compliant visitor thus made his apology to Mrs. Thrale "I understand you, madam, but must disobey. A friend who has known me thirty-six years shall not ask a favour of me in his last stage of life and be refused." "What difference can it make?" Tears stood in his eyes and Mrs. Thrale's own-les larmes dans la voix-prevented all reply. What difference did it make? That day was Mr. Thrale's last.-Francis Jacox.

259. APPLAUSE, Danger of. Mr. Hervey, being in company with a person who was paying him some compliments on account of his writings, replied, laying his hand to his heart, "Oh, sir, you would not strike the sparks of applause if you knew how much corrupt tinder I have within."

260. APPLAUSE, Worth of. When Napoleon was returning from his successful wars in Austria and Italy, amid the huzzas of the people, Bourrienne remarked to him that "it must be delightful to be greeted with such demonstrations of enthusiastic admiration." "Bah!" replied Napoleon, "this same unthinking crowd, under a slight change of circumstances, would follow me just as eagerly to the scaffold."

261. APPLICATION, Fruits of. Cruden, the author of the "Concordance," received a liberal education, being destined for the ministry. In consequence of a calamity which overtook him when about the age of nineteen, he was never ordained, and throughout the whole of his after life he was subject to an intellectual infirmity and overclouding

of the mind, which left him little respite. And yet what a legacy for the thoughtful students of God's Word he has left behind him! How many hundreds of highly gifted men who never knew what a day's illness or mental aberration was have gone without leaving the world under one tithe of the obligation it ought to feel to poor, much-afflicted Crulen.—B.

262. APPLICATION in preaching, Objection to. A farmer went to hear John Wesley preach. The farmer was not a converted man; he cared little about religion; on the other hand, he was not what we call a bad man. His attention was soon excited and riveted. John said he should take up three topics of thought-he was speaking greatly about money. His first head was, "Get all you can." The farmer nudged a neighbour and said, "This is strange preaching. I never heard the like of this before. This is very good. Yon man has got discoursed of "Industry," "Activity," "Living to things in him; it is admirable preaching." John purpose," and reached his second division, which was, "Save all you can." The farmer became more excited. "Was there ever anything like this?" he said. Wesley denounced thriftlessness and waste, and he satirised the wilful wickedness which lavishes in luxury; and the farmer rubbed his hands, and he thought, "All this have I been from my youth "P" and what with getting, and what with hoarding, it seemed to him that "salvation had come to his house." But Wesley advanced to his third head, which was, "Give all you can." "Ay dear, ay dear," said the farmer; "he has gone and spoilt it all." There was now no further point of contact, no interest in the farmer's mind. Preacher's Lantern.

263. APPLICATION, Want of. An eminent Frenchman hit off in a single phrase the characteristic quality of the inhabitants of a particular dis trict, in which a friend of his proposed to settle and buy land. "Beware," said he, "of making a purchase there; I know the men of that department; the pupils who come from it to our veterinary school at Paris do not strike hard upon the anvil; they want energy, and you will not get a satisfactory return on any capital you may invest there."

Smiles.

265. APPRECIATION and happiness, A Christian's. Robert Hall was gifted with an eloquence which has rarely been equalled, and endowed with a loftiness of intellect that enabled him to grapple with the mightiest theines; but all through life he was a martyr to the most distressing physical anguish, so that he had scarcely a moment that was free from excruciating pain. Yet amid all this he contrived to put into his career some of the noblest work which his generation saw, and he had a quiet happiness and sometimes even a brimming humour that were quite remarkable. Returning in his later days from spending the evening with some friends,

his daughter said to him, "Father, you did not enjoy yourself much to-night, I fear." "Yes," was the reply, "I enjoy everything; I enjoy every thing;" and no man who knew Robert Hall could doubt that he spoke the truth.-Taylor.

266. APPRECIATION, Law of. A few years ago a Chinese professor of music was in London, and after he had attentively listened to our very best concerts, and had heard the most delightful music in Europe, his frank opinion was thus expressed-"Your music is carefully performed and with great execution, and it is interesting to hear; but I fail altogether to find in it any rhythm, any theme, or thread of design, for it appears to be a mere jingle of sounds." As a complement of this, on our part, it may be remembered that the Japanese band which performed many times in London some years ago was found by most Englishmen to have just the same "unmeaning language" for our Western ears.-Sunday Magazine.

267. APPRECIATION, Spiritual, Want of. Jedediah Buxton, the famous peasant, who could multiply nine figures by nine in his head, was once taken to see Garrick act. When he went back to his own village he was asked what he thought of the great actor and his doings. "Oh!" he said, "he did not know; he had only seen a little man strut about the stage and repeat 7956 words." Here was a want of the ability to appreciate what he saw, and the exercise of the reigning faculty to the exclusion of every other. Similarly our hearers, if destitute of the spiritual powers by which the Gospel is discerned, fix their thoughts on our words, tones, gestures, or countenance, and make remarks upon us which, from a spiritual point of view, are utterly absurd. How futile are our endeavours without the Holy Spirit!-Spurgeon.

268. APPRECIATION, Want of. A mathematician was taken by a musician to an extraordinary violin performance. The man of music was entranced, but when he turned to the mathematician and asked him whether the performance was not exquisite, the man of figures replied that it was indeed a wonderful performance; the violinist had drawn his elbow up and down 2900 times!-Dr. Green.

269. APPRECIATION, Want of. When the Duke of Liancourt came to announce to Louis XVI. the fall of the Bastile, the King exclaimed, "This is a revolt!" "Sire," replied the Duke, "it is a Revolution."-Student's France.

270. APPRECIATION, Want of. We may illustrate the differing measures in which natural objects convey knowledge to men of differing mental and spiritual capacity by the story of our great English artist. He is said to have been engaged upon one of his immortal works, and a lady of rank looking on remarked, "But, Mr. Turner, I do not see in nature all that you describe there." "Ah, madam," answered the painter, "do you not wish you could?” -Spurgeon.

271. APPREHENSION, Morbid. That great though morbid man, John Foster, could not heartily enjoy the summer weather for thinking how every sunny day that shone upon him was a downward step towards the winter gloom-each indication that the season was advancing, though only to

greater beauty, filling him with a sort of forecast regret. "I have seen a fearful sight to-day," he would say; "I have seen a buttercup." And we know, of course, that in his case there was nothing like affectation; it was only that, unhappily for himself, the bent of his mind was so onward looking that he saw only a premonition of December in the roses of June.-A. K. H. B. (condensed).

272. APPROBATION a reward. In Herder's recollections of his father, as related by his widow, it is said "When he was satisfied with me his face grew bright, and he laid his hand softly on my head and called me Gottesfriede [God's peace; his name was Gottfried]. This was my greatest, sweetest reward."-Julius C. Hare.

273. APPROPRIATENESS in Christian life.

Peter de Dreux, cousin-german to the King of France and Bishop of Beauvais, being taken in arms by Richard I. of England, was imprisoned and fettered by him for personal injuries during his own captivity. Pope Celestine III. wrote to the King a gently remonstrating letter in favour of the prelate, which the King answered by sending the Bishop's helmet and armour to Rome, with this text, "Know now whether it be thy son's coat or no.' This answer, so just and so appropriate, put a stop to the Pope's intercession, and he replied "that the coat the King had sent him did not belong to a son of the Church, but of the camp; and the prisoner, therefore, was at Richard's mercy."Clerical Anecdotes.

274. APPROPRIATION, A child's. I once heard a father tell that when he removed his family to a new residence, where the accommodation was much more ample and the substance much more rich and varied than that to which they had previously been accustomed, his youngest son, yet a lisping infant, ran round every room and scanned every article with ecstasy, calling out, in childish wonder at every new sight, "Is this ours, father? and is this ours?" The child did not say "yours," and I observed that the father, while he told the story, was not offended with the freedom. You could read in his glistening eye that the infant's confidence in appropriating as his own all that his father had was an important element in his satisfaction. Such, I suppose, will be the surprise and joy and appropriating confidence with which the child of our Father's family will count all his own when he is removed from the comparatively mean condition of things present, and enters the infinite of things to come. When the glories of heaven burst upon his view he does not stand at a distance, like a stranger, saying, “O God, these are thine." He bounds forward to touch and taste every provision which those blessed mansions contain, exclaiming, as he looks in the Father's face, "Father, this and this is ours." The dear child is glad of all the Father's riches, and the Father is gladder of his dear child.-W. Arnot.

275. APPROVAL, The master's. One winter's day I was at the railway station at New York. There was a large crowd of persons desiring to go from New York to Boston, and we all had to pass through a narrow way by the gatekeeper. Everybody had to show his ticket, and, as usual, there were many who could not conveniently find them. They said they had them, but the gatekeeper was inexorable. You must show your ticket," he said,

agitation, he suddenly closed the debate, quitted his seat, and retiring to a remote part of the room, was overheard to ejaculate with deep feeling, "Lamb of God, Lamb of God, calm my perturbed spirit."

283. ARGUMENT, Personalities in. His Majesty then talked of the controversy between Warburton and Lowth, and asked Johnson what he Johnson answered, "Warburton has thought of it. most general, most scholastic learning; Lowth is the more correct scholar. I do not know which of them calls names best." The King was pleased to say he was of the same opinion, adding, "You do not think then, Dr. Johnson, there was much argument in the case.' Johnson said he did not think there was. "Why, truly," said the King, "when once it comes to calling names, argument is pretty much at an end."-Boswell.

284. ARISTOCRACY and the people. At the commencement of the first revolution in France a gentleman of Dauphenay, anxious to support the

blood the nobles of France have shed in battle!" A commoner replied, "And what of the blood of the people poured forth at the same time? Was that water?"

285. ARRANGEMENT in preaching. In a private party one evening, at which the late Andrew Fuller was present, the conversation turned on the subject of preaching, when one of the party said preaching without notes was the hardest work in the world. Mr. Fuller said it was easy enough if they went to work in the right way. "Now," he said, "if I was to tell my servant girl to go to the shop and get some sugar and blue, some coffee and starch, some cakes, some soap and some almonds, some candles and spice, some nuts and some tea, some potash and butter, she would say, 'Oh dear, sir, I never can think of all that.' Well, look here, Betty, you know to-morrow your mistress is going to have a large wash, and she will want some

280. ARGUMENT, Calmness in. When Dr. Swift was arguing one day with great calmness, with a gentleman who had become exceedingly warm in the dispute, one of the company asked him how he could keep his temper so well. "The reason is," replied the dean, "I have truth on my side.”Clerical Library.

281. ARGUMENT, Heat in. Dr. Johnson and Dr. Parr occasionally met, but never without some noisy argument. Once in a particularly hot contest on the liberty of the press, Johnson leaped up and remained standing, while he talked stamping loudly with his foot. Parr at once imitated his adversary. "Why do you get up and stamp, Dr. Parr?" inquired the other. "I get up and stamp," replied the little doctor, "because you got up and stamped, and I am resolved not to give you the advantage of a stamp in the argument.'

282. ARGUMENT, Heat in. It is said that the Rev. Robert Hall, in the earlier part of his ministry, was impetuous and sometimes overbearing in argument; but if he lost his temper he was deeply humbled, and would often acknowledge himself to blame. On one of these occasions, when a discussion had become warm, and he had evinced unusual

she will have company, and will want some tea and coffee, sugar, spice, nuts, cakes, butter, and almonds. it is in preaching with good arrangement." 'Thank you, sir; now I can think of them all.' So

286. ARROGANCE, Man's. His Majesty of Ava is called God: when he writes to a foreign sovereign he calls himself the king of kings, whom all others should obey, as he is the cause of the preservation of all animals, the regulator of the seasons, the absolute master of the ebb and flow of the sea, brother to the sun, and king of the four and twenty umbrellas. These umbrellas are always carried before him as a mark of his dignity.—I. D’Israeli.

287. ARROGANCE, Man's. The petty sovereign of an insignificant tribe in North America every morning stalks out of his hovel, bids the sun goodmorrow, and points out to him with his finger the course he is to take for the day. Is this arrogance more contemptible than ours when we would dictate to God the course of His providence, and sumridiculous does man appear when he attempts to mon Him to our bar for His dealings with us? How argue with his God!-Spurgeon.

288. ARROGANCE, Papal. "You tell me I ought to submit to the civil power, that I am the subject of the King of Italy, and from him I am to