Then, as she mounted the stairs to the corridors, cooled by the east-wind,

Distant and soft on her ear fell the chimes from the

belfry of Christ Church.

While, intermingled with these, across the meadows were wafted

Sounds of psalms, that were sung by the Swedes in their church at Wicaco.

Soft as descending wings fell the calm of the hour on her spirit;

Something within her said, "At length thy trials are. ended";

And, with light in her looks, she entered the chambers of sickness.

Noiselessly moved about the assiduous, careful attend

ants,

Moistening the feverish lip, and the aching brow, and in silence

Closing the sightless eyes of the dead, and concealing their faces,

Where on their pallets they lay, like drifts of snow by the roadside.

Many a languid head, upraised as Evangeline entered, Turned on its pillow of pain to gaze while she passed,

for her presence

Fell on their hearts like a ray of the sun on the walls of a prison.

And, as she looked around, she saw how Death, the

consoler,

Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever..

XLII (b).-GLORY OF THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS.

LEIBNITZ.

Leibnitz was born in Leipsic in 1646; died in 1716. He was an eminent mathematician and philosopher.

Since the glory of God and the happiness of our fellow-creatures may be promoted by various means, by command or by example, according to the condition and disposition of each, the advantages of that institution are manifest, by which, besides those who are engaged in active and every-day life, there are also found in the Church ascetic and contemplative men, who, abandoning the cares of life, and trampling its pleasures under foot, devote their whole being to the contemplation of the Deity, and the admiration of his works; or who freed from personal concerns, apply themselves exclusively to watch and relieve the necessities of others; some by instructing the ignorant or erring; some by assisting the needy and afflicted.

2. Nor is it the least amongst those marks which commend to us that Church, which alone has preserved the name and the badges of Catholicity, that we see her alone produce and cherish these illustrious examples of the eminent virtues and of the ascetic life.

Wherefore, I confess, that I have ardently admired the religious orders, and the pious confraternities, and the other similar admirable institutions; for they are a sort of celestial soldiery upon earth, provided, corruptions and abuses being removed, they are governed according to the institutes of the founders, and regulated by the supreme Pontiff for the use of the universal Church.

3. For what can be more glorious than to carry the light of truth to distant nations, through seas and fires and swords-to traffic in the salvation of souls alone, -to forego the allurements of pleasure, and even the enjoyment of conversation and of social intercourse, in order to pursue, undisturbed, the contemplation of abstruse truths and divine meditation-to dedicate one's self to the education of youth in science and in virtue, -to assist and console the wretched, the despairing, the lost, the captive, the condemned, the sick-in squalor, in chains, in distant lands,-undeterred even by the fear of pestilence from the lavish exercise of these heavenly offices of charity!

4. The man who knows not, or despises these things, has but a vulgar and plebeian conception of virtue: he foolishly measures the obligations of men towards their God by the perfunctory discharge of ordinary duties, and by that frozen habit of life, devoid of zeal, and even of soul, which prevails commonly among men. For it is not a counsel, as some persuade themselves, but a strict precept, to labor with every power of soul and body, no matter in what condition of life we may be, for the attainment of Christian perfection, with which neither wedlock, nor children, nor public office are incompatible (although they throw difficulties in the way); but it is only a counsel to select that state of life which is more free from earthly obstacles, which selection our Lord congratulated Magdalen. 'PER-FUNCʻ-TO-RY, slight, careless; done only for the sake of getting rid of the duty.

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To the Religious orders we are indebted for the preservation of ancient literature, and for the culture and elevation of the Fine Art especially Christian Architecture, Music, and Painting.

XLIII-SETTLEMENT OF MARYLAND.

GRAHAME.

Influenced by a desire to provide an asylum for Catholics, then persecuted in England, Sir George Calvert, a Roman Catholic nobleman, whose title was Lord Baltimore, applied for a charter to establish a colony in America. King Charles readily agreed to make the grant, but before the document received the royal seal, Calvert died. It was then issued to Cecil Calvert, son of Sir George, who by the death of his father, inherited the title of Lord Baltimore. The province was called Maryland, in honor of Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I. The following is extracted from Grahame's "Colonial History of the United States."

1. The first band of emigrants, consisting of about two hundred gentlemen of considerable rank and fortune, professing the Roman Catholic faith, with a number of inferior adherents, in a vessel called The Ark and the Dove, sailed from England under the com mand of Leonard Calvert, in November, 1633; and, after a prosperous voyage, reached the coast of Maryland, near the mouth of the river Potomac, in the beginning of the following year [1634]. The governor, as soon as he landed, erected a cross on the shore, and took possession of the country "for our Saviour and for our sovereign lord the King of England."

2. Aware that the first settlement of Virginia had given umbrage1 to the Indians by occupying their territory without demanding their permission, he determined to imitate the wiser and juster policy that was pursued by the colonists of New England, and to unite the new with the ancient race of inhabitants by the ties of equity, good-will, and mutual advantage