The great lesson of the Christian religion is the lesson of Christian charity. Let us apply that lesson and sing, in inward if not in outward communion, even with a Unitarian, STEPHEN GREENLEAF BULFINCH, a hymn worthy to be sung by all who profess and call themselves Christians:

We gather to the sacred board,
Perchance a scanty band:

But with us in sublime accord
What mighty armies stand!

In creed and rite howe'er apart,
One Saviour still we own,
And pour the worship of the heart
Before our Father's throne.

A thousand spires, o'er hill and vale,
Point to the same blue heaven:
A thousand voices tell the tale
Of grace through Jesus given.

High choirs, in Europe's ancient fanes,
Praise Him for man who died;
And o'er the boundless Western plains
His name is glorified.

Around His tomb, on Salem's height,

Greek and Armenian bend;

And, through all Lapland's months of nights,
The peasants' hymns ascend.

Are we not brethren, Saviour dear?

Then may we walk in love,

Joint subjects of Thy Kingdom here,

Joint heirs of bliss above.

When James Freeman Clarke lay dying at Lakewood, he asked that there should be read to him Henry Francis Lyte's great hymn, "Abide with me, fast falls the eventide.” Was that a "Unitarian," or an "orthodox" request? It was both, inasmuch as it came from a man who was outwardly a Unitarian, but whose lifelong inward fellowship had been with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ. He remembered his

Master who had climbed the steep of Calvary, and so his spirit

cried:

Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes:

Shine through the gloom, and point me to the skies:
Heaven's morning breaks, and earth's vain shadows flee:

In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.

Let that be the cry of our spirits also, and for us "the valley of the shadow" will blaze with light.

XIII.

John Mason Neale

And Some Hymns from the Greek and Latin

Christ's own Martyrs, valiant cohort,
White-robed and palmiferous throng,
Ye that 'neath the Heavenly Altar,

Cry "How long, O Lord, how long?"
Tell us how the fiery struggle

Ended in the Victor song?

""Twas His love that watch'd beside us,
His Right Arm that brought us through;
So, the fiercer wax'd our torture,

Sweeter His consoling grew,

Till the men that killed the body

Had no more that they could do."

All Christ's saints, that none may number,
Out of every land and tongue,

Ye that by the fire and crystal

Have your crowns in worship flung, Tell us how ye gained the region Where the Unknown Song is sung?

"Glory, honor, adoration

To the Lamb that once was slain;
Virtue, riches, power, the kingdom,
To the Prince that lives again;
His entirely, His forever,
His we are, and His remain."

JOHN MASON NEALE.