me feel ashamed of dreading the winters of New England, as I did before coming from home, and do now still more after five or six mild English Decembers.

which seduce us upward to no successful result. It is very disheartening not to be able to place the slightest reliance on the integrity of the people we are to deal with; not to believe in any connection between their words and their purposes; to know that they are certainly telling you falsehoods, while you are not in a position to catch hold of the lie, and hold it up in their faces.

By-and-by two young ladies came in, Miss Bremer's neighbours, it seemed, fresh from a long walk on the Campagna, fresh and weary at the same time. One apparently was German and the other French, and they brought her an offering of flowers, and chatted to her with affectionate vivacity; and, as we were about taking leave, Miss Bremer asked them to accompany her and us on a visit to the edge of the Tarpeian Rock. Before we left the room she took a bunch of roses that were in a vase and gave them to Miss Shepard, who told her that she should make her six sisters happy by giving one to each. Then we went down the intricate stairs, and emerging into the garden, walked round the brow of the hill, which plunges headlong with exceeding abruptness; but, so far as I could see in the moonlight, is no longer quite a precipice. Then we re-entered the house, and went up-stairs and down again, through intricate passages, till we got into the street, which was still peopled with the ragamuffins who infest and burrow in that part of Rome. We returned through an archway, and descended the broad flight of steps into the Piazza of the Capitol; and from the extremity of it, just at the head of the long graded way, where Castor and Pollux and the old mile-myself for thinking so. stones stand, we turned to the left, and followed a somewhat winding path, till we came into the court of a palace. This court is bordered by a parapet, leaning over which we saw the sheer precipice of the Tarpeian Rock, about the height of a four-story house. On the edge of this, before we left the court, Miss Bremer bade us farewell, kissing my wife most affectionately on each cheek, and then turning towards myself she pressed my hand, and we parted, probably never to meet again. God bless her good heart! She is a most amiable little woman, worthy to be the maiden aunt of the whole human race. I suspect, by-the-bye, that she does not like me half so well as I do her; it is my impression that she thinks me unamiable, or that there is something or other not quite right about me. I am sorry if it be so, because such a good, kindly, clear-sighted, and delicate person is very apt to have reason at the bottom of her harsh thoughts, when, in rare cases, she allows them to harbour with her. To-day, and for some days past, we have been in quest of lodgings for next winter; a weary search, up interminable staircases,

This afternoon we called on Mr. and Mrs. at the Hôtel de l'Europe, but found only the former at home. We had a pleasant visit; but I made no observations of his character save such as I have already sufficiently recorded; and when we had beer with him a little while, Mrs. Chapman, the artist's wife, Mr. Terry, and my friend Mr. Thompson, came in. received them all with the same good degree of cordiality | that he did ourselves; not cold, not very warm, not annoyed, not ecstatically de lighted; a man, I should suppose, not likely to have ardent individual preferences, though perhaps capable of stern individual dislikes. But I take him, at all events, to be a very upright man, and pursuing a narrow track of integrity; he is a man whom I would never forgive (as I would a thousand other men) for the slightest moral delinquency. I would not be bound to say, however, that he has not the little sin of a fretful and peevish habit; and yet, perhaps, I am a sinner

May 23rd.-This morning I breakfasted at William Story's, and met there Mr. Bryant, Mr. T. (an English gentleman), Mr. and Mrs. Apthorp, Miss Hosmer, and one or two other ladies. Bryant was very quiet, and made no conversation audible to the general table. Mr. T. talked of English politics and public men; the Times, and other newspapers, English clubs, and social habits generally; topics in which I could well enough bear my part of the discussion. After breakfast, and aside from the ladies, he mentioned an illustration of Lord Ellenborough's lack of administrative ability—a proposal seriously made by his lordship in reference to the refractory Sepoys. We had a very pleasant breakfast, and certainly a breakfas is much preferable to a dinner, not merely in the enjoyment while it is passing, but after wards. I made a good suggestion to Miss Hosmer for the design of a fountain-a lady bursting into tears-water gushing from a thousand pores, in literal translation of the phrase; and to call the statue "Niobe, all tears." I doubt whether she adopts the idea, but Bernini would have been delighted

THE MOTHER AND THE ANGEL.

with it. I should think the gush of water might be so arranged as to form a beautiful drapery about the figure, swaying and fluttering with every breath of wind, and rearranging itself in the calm; in which case the lady might be said to have "a habit of weeping." Apart with William Story, he and I talked of the unluckiness of Friday, &c., and I like him particularly well.

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This evening U— and I took a farewell walk in the Pincian Gardens, to see the sunset; and found them crowded with people, promenading and listening to the music of the French band. It was the feast of WhitSunday, which probably brought a greater throng than usual abroad.

When the sun went down, we descended into the Piazza del Popolo, and thence into We have been plagued to-day with our the Via Ripetta, and emerged through a gate preparations for leaving Rome to-morrow, and to the shore of the Tiber, along which there especially with verifying the inventory of is a pleasant walk beneath a grove of trees. furniture, before giving up the house to our We traversed it once and back again, looking landlord. He and his daughter have been at the rapid river, which still kept its mudexamining every separate article, down even puddly aspect even in the clear twilight, and to the kitchen skewers, I believe, and charg- beneath the brightening moon. The great ing us to the amount of several scudi for bell of St. Peter's tolled with a deep boom,—a cracks and breakages, which very probably grand and solemn sound; the moon gleamed existed when we came into possession. It is through the branches of the trees above very uncomfortable to have dealings with us; and U- spoke with somewhat alarmsuch a mean people (though our landlord is ing fervour of her love for Rome, and regret German)-mean in their business transac- at leaving it. We shall have done the tions; mean even in their beggary; for the child no good office in bringing her here, if beggars seldom ask for more than a mezzo ba- the rest of her life is to be a dream of this joccho, though they sometimes grumble when" city of the soul," and an unsatisfied yearning you suit your gratuity exactly to their petition. It is pleasant to record that the Italians have great faith in the honour of the English and Americans, and never hesitate to trust entire strangers, to any reasonable extent, on the strength of their being of the honest Anglo-Saxon race.

to come back to it. On the other hand, nothing elevating and refining can be really injurious, and so I hope she will always be the better for Rome, even if her life should be spent where there are no pictures, no statues-nothing but the dryness and meagreness of a New England village.

THE MOTHER AND THE ANGEL.

BY A RAILWAY SURFACEMAN.

"I WANT my child," the mother said, as "Take thou the root, but let the bud remain, “I through

The deep sweet air of purple-breathing

morn

She rose 'mid clouds of most celestial hue, By the soft strength of angels' wings upborne.

Then he who bore her to her heavenly rest Drew back the hands that hid her weeping eyes,

And said, “I cannot alter the request

Of Him whose glory lights the earth and skies.

"For ere I came, and, as I paused again,

To hear His omnipresent words, He said,

To perfect into blossom in its stead.'

"And so I bear thee, that in our sweet land
You be one of our immortal kind,
may
With not one task but to reach forth thy hand
And guide the footsteps of thy child behind."

He ceased, and winging reach'd those realms
on high,

Whose lustre we half see through stars below,
And all the light that fills our earthly sky
Is but a shadow to its mighty glow.

Now whether that the mother in this light

Stood yearning for her treasure in our hands, Or whether God saw fitting, in His might, To reunite again the broken bands,

We know not; but when night had come at | One took the mother from all earthly claim, last,

And wore to clasp the first embrace of day, An angel entered, though the door was fast,

And all unseen took what we held away.

harms,

But still I think 'twas God Himself that came

And took the child and laid it in her arms

THOUGHTS ON THE TEMPTATION OF OUR LORD.

BY THE EDITOR.

VI. THE THIRD TEMPTATION.

(Continued from p. 398.)

"All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me."-MATT. iv. 9.

THE
HE essence of this temptation, as we
have seen, was life without God-the
abuse of things, according to the Satanic
principle, in the worship and service of self.
Satan spoke as the "prince of this world"-
not as the actual possessor or ruler of this
physical world, which does not bear the im-
press of his footsteps, nor any trace of his
hands in any one thing, or in any law within
the limits of a creation as fair, orderly, and
perfect as when its Creator pronounced it
very good, and the sons of God shouted
with joy. The whole earth is now, as ever,
full of the glory of the Lord, and of His
only! But Satan spoke as the representative
and "ruler of the darkness of this world,"
which exists only in the spirit of living per-
sons who love the darkness rather than the
light. He spoke as the god of that "world"
which is "not of the Father," but originates
in the will of the creature; whose principle
is self-will, independent of and contrary to
the righteous will of God; which, instead of
seeking freedom and strength and happiness
in God, seeks all without Him; and which,
instead of accepting and using all the gene-
rous gifts bestowed by righteous love for
righteous ends, perverts and abuses them
in the service of self, making them minister
to the lust of the flesh, the lust of the
eye, and the pride of life, thereby making
their possessor poor and needy, blind and
naked-a miserable prodigal wasting all his
substance. The object of Satan was to in-
duce Jesus of Nazareth to accept this kind
of life, and to join in the universal idolatry
of individualism. He would thus have de-
stroyed Jesus as a true Son, whose life was
loving subjection to God his Father; and as
a true King, who possessed all things be-
cause He thus possessed God in love; and
as a true Priest, whose glory was the sacrifice
of self, and the doing of his Father's will.

This third temptation-the last grand attack, after long and terrible battles, on the impregnable moral position of the Great King-was a crisis in the warfare which had been going on since creation, and which will continue until Christ come again with complete salvation. And it is deeply interesting confining ourselves to the con

test waged by Satan against the kingdom of Christ-to watch his unremitting attempts to destroy every visible sign of that kingdom on earth, to put to death every true and illustrious subject of it, and upon its ruins to rear and establish his own apostate kingdom of idolatry, darkness, and death. His policy has been the same in every age, and can be traced along the whole history of the Church of Christ. Let us glance at some of the leading events in this world-campaign.

No sooner is Adam, holy and spotless, "the son of God," crowned with glory and honour, and made a king, than Satan, the enemy, tempts and dethrones him! The third temptation in Eden was, “Ye shall be as gods." This was an appeal to man, so fearfully and wonderfully made after God's image. The mere thought, or idea, of being as a god could not be conceived of or entertained by any being but one who was made God-like, and whose end was to be like God. The pride of individualism is atheistic, but is nevertheless the perversion of a divine nature. It is a king's son who dares to aspire to the throne-or even to a throne-of an independent kingdom. God's purpose in regard to man was that he should reign as a king for ever and ever, but only by being a priest, and by sharing the spirit of self-sacrifice which God Himself manifested when He "gave His Son," and which the Son manifested when "He offered up Himself." But man sought to obtain this glory in Satan's way, and by what was a lie and a contradiction to his own being. Eve was tempted by the "lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life," for "when she saw"-what? and how?" that the tree was good for food, and pleasant to the eye, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat," and so the crown fell from his brow! In seeking self he lost himself, and the king became a beggar! The cord of dependence on God, of obedience, love, sonship, was thus snapped between man and the Father-consequently, between man and man as brethren. The light being extinguished which revealed the Father, there was no light to reveal the brother. The

reign of God thus ceasing in the spirit of man, the reign of self and of Satan, the liar and the murderer, began. This was made visible in the murder of Abel by his brother Cain, and was soon so established over the world, that after sixteen centuries one family only was righteous; while all the kingdoms of the world, with its arts and manufactures, its music and poetry, its family and social life, fell down and worshipped Satan, and accordingly was filled with violence," and ail flesh became corrupt, and the thoughts of man's heart were evil, and only evil continually." God saved the earth from destruction by bringing a flood on the world of the ungodly. So ended Satan's old kingdom before the flood!

It was a very Marathon and Thermopylæ. What a marvellous, visible struggle was it with plague, pestilence, darkness and death, magic and magicians! Satan seemed to enter into Pharaoh, and to possess him as with demoniac power, and to cry, in the agony of pride or despair, "I will not let them go !" But go they shall. The life of the world depends on it. Moses, the_type of Christ, in the spirit of his great antitype, despised the kingdoms of this world, and would not worship Satan or his idols. He pre ferred the reproach of Christ to all the riches of Egypt, and would not have life without God. In the power of faith he led forth the i Israelites; crossed the Red Sea, when again ocean waves seemed to baptize the earth with new hope. Then was there sung a song which was an echo from the Rock of Ages,

sung again when the last enemy is destroyed,

Thy right hand hath become glorious in power. Thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy. The Lord shall reign for ever and ever!”

Human history proceeds, centuries pass on, mankind increases, and soon we see an attempt on a great scale to form and mould a nation-"the Song of Moses and the Lamb," to be ality upon the devil's policy of pride and selfishness. Men wished to make to themselves a name, and get for themselves renown, and so they would commence a great capital, and cement society by stone and lime! That scheme becomes Babel-confusion-a scattering and not a uniting. But God's purpose was to unite men as subjects of a very different kingdom, whose bonds were to be moral and spiritual, whose life would be faith in Himself; and accordingly at that very time He calls Abram, in whom, in whose descendant, and in the possession of whose spirit, and not by any forms of mere outward unity, all the nations of the earth would be blessed. How marvellously the great kings in this kingdom are preserved, when Satan would cast them down; and how God in providence ever said, "Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm!" See Noah in the ark; Abram alone among his enemies; Jacob threatened by Esau; Joseph in prison; Moses in the ark of bulrushes-and so on.

Years roll on the panorama of history moves past us. We see the kingdom of God well-nigh crushed by the power under whose protection it was increasing in numbers and gathering in strength to possess the earth in force. A great attempt is made by Satan to destroy the hopes of the world through his allies the Pharaohs. He will wear the people out, and degrade them by slavery, or massacre them in infancy, and set a very image of himself in proud rebellious self-reliance upon the throne of Egypt. But the Church is brought out of Egypt by a mighty hand, and that event was the greatest in the history of the two kingdoms since creation.

The combat continues. Satan tries to destroy the people in the wilderness by seeking to destroy their faith, and sometimes their lives, by his agents. But for their invisible King, who ever preserves a seed to serve Him, he would have succeeded. They fell before the very temptations which our Lord resisted. They lost faith in God their Father when suffering from hunger, and declared that man did live by bread only. They tempted the Lord at Meribah, say ing, "Is He among us or not?" and demanded a sign from Moses. They also fell down and worshipped Satan in abominable idolatries. Here, in following out the analogy between the temptations of Jesus as the Head of the race and also of the Church, I must notice how the third temptation on the Mount is one with the third temptation of the Church in the wilderness, as well as that of man, represented by Adam in Eden. After the day of temptation at Meribah, which was parallel in order of time and in its spirit to the second temptation on the pinnacle of the temple, there followed the great battle between "the Church in the wilderness" and the Amalekites, who repre sented the kingdoms of "the world." Then it was that Moses ascended the mountain, and overcame the enemy by the prayer faith, which was analogous to the faith of Christ on the mountain when He refused the offer of the kingdoms of this world. But forty years afterwards there was-according to the

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