qualities mentioned; the best being what exudes spontaneously, and not by tapping or boiling down. And so it is with apothegms. If a man taps himself to draw them out, he will be the more likely to sacrifice truth to antithesis." Letter of Abp. Whately: Life, vol. ii. p. 312.

NOTE XXVII. PAGE 178.

Milton's good word for occasional sarcasm is certainly just:

"Even this vein of laughing, as I could produce out of grave authors, hath ofttimes a strong and sinewy force in teaching and confuting."-MILTON: on Remonstrant's Defence.

But the maxim of Lord Bacon seems always the best one for the pulpit :

"As for jest, there be certain things whicn ought to be privileged from it; namely, religion, matters of state, great persons, any man's present business of importance, and any case that deserveth pity. Yet there be some that think their wits have been asleep, except they dart

out something that is piquant, and to the quick. That is

a vein which should be bridled:

"Parce, puer, stimulis, et fortius utere loris."

BACON'S Essays, xxxii.

NOTE XXVIII.

PAGE 203.

"The rugged gentleness, the wit whose glory Flash'd like a sword, because its edge was keen, The fine antithesis, the flowing story;

Beneath such things the sainthood is not seen,

"Till in the hours when the wan hand is lifted

To take the bread and wine, through all the mist

Of mortal weariness our eyes are gifted

To see a quiet radiance caught from Christ;

"Till from the pillow of the thinker, lying

In weakness, comes the teaching, then best taught,

That the true crown for any soul in dying

Is Christ, not genius, and is faith, not thought.

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"O Death, for all thy darkness, grand unveiler

Of lights on lights above Life's shadowy place, Just as the night, that makes our small world paler, Shows us the star-sown amplitudes of space!

"O strange discovery! Land that knows no bounding, Isles far off hail'd, bright seas without a breath, What time the white sail of the soul is rounding

The misty cape

the promontory Death!"

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