that in the angel-registers the record would have been less bright? Or may it not rather be that,-in those biographies which are written only in God's Book of Life-the unmurmuring simplicity with which, on the very morning of victory, he resigned the chief command into another's hands,the moral courage, which, amid a godless society, made him invite his men to join with him in prayer, and not wince under the sneering title of "Havelock's saints,"-may it not be, I say, that these little faithfulnesses are written in brighter letters than the victory at Alumbagh, or than the salvation of India by that great march through scorching heat and drenching rain, from Cawnpore to Lucknow? If then you would do great deeds hereafter, prepare for them now. "He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much."

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Bible Reading

would urge you to a constant and reverent-but at the same time a wise and spiritual-study of this sacred book. "If we be ignorant," say the translators of 1611, "the Scriptures will instruct us; if out of the way, they will bring us home; if out of order, they will reform us; if in heaviness, comfort us; if dull, quicken us; if cold, inflame us. Tolle lege; Tolle lege." But the Bible is not a charm or an amulet, that it should do this of itself. The blessings which it can bestow depend on yourselves and on the grace of God which you seek in prayer. Read as a scoffer, read as a Pharisee, and it will be useless to you. Read it rightly, and it will indeed be a light unto your feet and a lamp unto your path. Read it teachably, read it devotionally. The knowledge of Scripture "is a science not of the intellect, but of the heart." Read it above all as Christ taught us to read it; not by entangling yourselves in the controversial and the dubious, but by going to the very heart

of its central significance. Have you no Reason to guide you, no Conscience lighted by "God and lighting to God?" Have you no Spirit of Christ to teach you that you must read its lessons-not conceitedly, not with self-satisfaction, not through the lurid mists of some anathematizing theology, not with the blind and furious eyes of party suspicion or factious hate-but into "the soul's vernacular" and with the eyes of love? Treat it as a heap of missiles to be hurled at your neighbor and his opinions, and there will be no end to your follies and errors. You will but distort it, as so many have done to your own perdition. Read it in humility and in love, and then no Urim which the High Priest wore has ever gleamed with such lessons as it will reveal to you. However much it be mingled with mysteries which we are not required to unravel, and difficulties which we are not able to solve, "it contains plain teaching for men of every rank of soul and state in life, which, so far as they honestly and implicitly obey, they will be happy and innocent to the utmost powers of their nature, and capable of victory over all adversities, whether of temptation or of pain."

By being ungenerous, even to a book,
And calculating profits

so much help
By so much reading. It is rather when
We gloriously forget ourselves and plunge

Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound,
Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth-
'Tis then we get the right good from a book.
-Elizabeth B. Browning.

From "Aurora Leigh."

VIVE LE ROI

The King is dead! Long live the King! Nineteen hundred and ten has graduated; 1911 has stepped into the limelight as its successor. The Longfellow Class with its emblem of the young Hiawatha keeps before itself the stimulating motto "Act, act in the living present." Its banner is not yet made, but a good design has been chosen for it embodying the chestnut trees whose burrs open to show the velvet lining and the good fruit within. This class has worked on the plan of assessing its members fifty cents a year. This amount is to cover the small expense of the class at Chautauqua and also to go toward the fund for the banner and the tablet in the Hall of Philosophy. With the contributions of the coming year, which it is hoped will be given generously, the necessary amount probably will be made up before next Recognition Day. Any sum may be sent to the Treasurer, Mrs. S. H. Bouton, Postoffice Box 330, Rochester, New York. It it desirable that all activities of the 1910's anywhere should be made known to the Round Table as they are of interest to all the graduating class and to under-graduates and post-graduates as well.

Class

Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle: Certificate for the Course for 1909-10

John Uncent Chancellor

THE CLASSICAL YEAR CERTIFICATE

The certificate given for the completion of the Reading Course for 1909-10 is a reproduction of the Temple called "Pharaoh's Bed" on the Isle of Philae. Besides being a very beautiful example of Egyptian architecture, the view has the added attraction of representing one of the temples which the so-called "improvements" at Philae have covered from view, probably forever. The huge lake created by the Aswan Dam has covered some of the most beautiful examples of Egyptian art in the Nile Valley, as will be remembered by readers of Prof. Breasted's "Reading Journey" and of Miss Katherine Lee Bate's lovely quatrain in the April magazine.

The Seaside Circle of Belfast, Maine, which held festival on its twenty-fifth anniversary in June, is an enthusiastic supporter of the local Public Library. A Circle officer writes:

"This Library was not the result of any C. L. S. C. efforts but affords us great aid and THE CHAUTAUQUAN Magazine is always on its reading table and a full set of C. L. S. C. books are each year placed upon its shelves. These books are used by not only the C. L. S. C. members, but the various Literary Clubs, the High School pupils and many others find them of great value along their several lines of work or study. The librarian is interested in the C. L. S. C. and kindly aids us with reference books and material for papers are needed."