of eternity, and hearers hear, in the view of that great and momentous concern."

CHURCH MILITANTS.

During the Irish rebellion, a Roman catholic priest of the name of Roche, is said to have told the soldiers that he would catch the bullets in his hand, and actually exhibited some which he pretended to have got in that manner. The imposture was by no means new. The celebrated baptist demagogue, Muncer, who, adding the fanaticism of religion to the extreme of enthusiasm for republicanism, by his harangues to the populace of Mulhausen, soon found himself at the head of forty thousand troops, and thus addressed them." Every thing must yield to the Most High, who has placed me at the head of you. In vain the enemy's artillery shall thunder against you; in vain, indeed, for I will receive in the sleeve of my gówn every bullet that shall be shot against you, and that alone shall be an impenetrable rampart against all the efforts of the enemy." Muncer however was not so good as his word, for the Landgrave of Hesse, and many of the nobility marching against him, his troops were defeated, himself taken prisoner, and carried to Mulhausen, where he perished upon a scaffold in 1525.

BISHOP WAYNFLETE.

William (Barber) of Waynflete, where he was born, about the commencement of the fifteenth century, was one of the most eminent men of the age in which he lived. He was educated at Winchester and Oxford at the College founded by William of Wyckham; being distinguished for his literary attainments he was appointed master of Winchester school about 1433, and Henry VI. constituted him first provost of the College which he was establishing at Eton, in 1442, after he had superintended the scholastic establishment for two years. At the death of Cardinal Beaufort, in 1447, he was raised to the see of Winchester, which he held for thirty-nine years: in 1456 he was honoured with the post of Chancellor, which he resigned in 1460: he died at Winchester August 11, 1486. The piety, learning and abilities of bishop Waynflete has been dwelt on with rapture by all his biographers. Magdalen College which he founded at Oxford is a proof of his opulence and his munificence as a patron of learning.

CREED OF SAINT ATHANASIUS;

The Creed of St Athanasius, as it is commonly called, does not appear to have existed within a century after his death, and was originally composed in the Latin tongue, and consequently in the Western province of the Roman

empire. Gennadius, patriarch of Constantinople, was so much amazed by this extraordinary composition that he frankly pronounced it to be the tale of a drunken man.

MONKS.

Even in the seventh century the monks were generally laymen; they wore their hair long and dishevelled, and shaved their heads when they were ordained priests. The circular tonsure was sacred and mysterious; it was the crown of thorns; but it was likewise a royal diadem, and every priest was a king, &c. This tonsure must often have proved an awkward impediment to the intrigues and follies of monkery. An amusing author who has recorded many anecdotes of the brotherhood, relates that during his stay in France, a friar in the dress of a scholar was married to the daughter of a rich widow at Lyons. He concealed the tonsure with a patch of artificial hair; but drinking too freely after supper and growing riotous, the patch was unluckily knocked off by his neighbour, whereupon to the no small disappointment of himself and his intended bride, the friar was immediately obliged to take to flight.