What are the facts of the case? By what is the actual distribution of temperature characterised? Is there any such marked and characteristic feature of this distribution, that we may be authorised to consider the inclination of the earth's axis to have been fixed with a reference to it? There is such a feature. It is the remarkable uni formity of extreme summer heat. Over eight-ninths of the habitable surface of the globe, and to 30" of the pole, the thermometer attains in summer within a few degrees of the same height.* It rises every year at St. Petersburgh above 90°; and on the coast of Guinea, and on the Senegal, it is rarely observed to exceed 95°. There is no greater error than to suppose that a perpetual cold reigns in high latitudes. Moscow has the summer heat of Nantes; and even in Norway, in lat. 70°, or within 20° of the pole, the thermometer not unfrequently rises to 80°.+ Under the influence of this genial summer's heat vegetation spreads itself, as the sun advances northward from the equator to within a narrow circle surrounding the pole. On Melville Island, within 15" of the pole, where winter reigns during nine or ten months of the year, the heat of the remaining two or three months of summer is sufficient to bring into active vegetation mosses, lichens, grasses, saxifrage, poppies, the dwarf-willow, and sorrel; and in a sheltered spot, Captain Parry observed a ranunculus in full flower in the second week of June. As on the artificial globe the artificer required the same temperature at the different points where he worked, at the time when he was working there, so on this vast globe of the earth the GREAT ARTIFICER in those regions where successively he perfects the process of vegetation, perfects it under nearly the same solar heat; and for this purpose it is that the same extreme of heat is made to travel the earth's surface from the equator to the poles. Let it, however, be understood, that the law according to which fructification appears to be thus controlled every where by nearly the same temperature, is only approximate, and subject, within certain limits, to innumerable modifications. Moreover, that the law of the equal distribution of extreme summer temperature is subject to numerous and great modifications; that a variety of local circumstances of aspect and elevation, and that continual interchange of the heat of different tracts of the earth's surface which is made by means of currents of the air and ocean, affect it.|| Important as is the discussion of these disturbing causes, when we would compare the variations of temperature at places otherwise similarly situated, and its lesser anomalies,―the_great controlling cause is still, however, the position of the earth's axis. What, in fact, are the varieties of elevation of the earth's surface but as the elevations of scattered particles of • This remark is intended to apply to that portion of the surface of the globe only which is land, and to extend through the northern hemisphere to within 30° of the pole. It will be remembered, that in the northern hemisphere is collected more than three-fourths of the land, and that it reaches to the immediate vicinity of the pole; whilst none of the continents of the southern hemisphere approach the pole by more than 50o. + Captain Scoresby speaks of an influence of the sun's rays at Melville Island, lat. 74° 30', under which the pitch on the side of his vessel was melted; and a thermometer placed against it indicated 80° or 90o. And in his last voyage to Greenland, in lat. 80o 19', he speaks of the paint-work of the side of his vessel being heated to 90° or 100°, and the pitch about the bends becoming fluid. The summer comes upon these northern regions with marvellous power; in three or four days the snow is dissolved, and the flowers almost immediately begin to blow. The rapidity and vigour with which vegetation bursts upon these regions is described as most remarkable. Three or four days after the snow is melted are sufficient to bring the flowers into blossom. One of these, having reference to the case of the birch and pine, will be stated in a subsequent part of this paper. The influence of these various causes will form the subject of a subsequent paper. dust on the artificer's sphere? What are its varieties of aspect but as the sunny and shady sides of those particles of dust? And what is the atmosphere which envelopes the earth but as the thickness of the coat of varnish with which the artificer has overspread it? and its currents but as the movements which the parts of that covering of varnish might, under the influence of its different temperatures, have had when it was fluid? Subject to all these variations, the position of the earth's axis may be safely stated to be so taken as that the varying obliquities with which the sun's rays fall on different places from the equator to within 30o of the pole-that is, through eight-ninths of the earth's surface compensate with a remarkable accuracy for the different relative lengths of the summer days and nights at those places. Who will believe that it was not so selected with a view to that compensation, and the resulting uniform diffusion of the same extreme summer heat in succession to every place, at which heat vegetation was destined to fructify. the basis of the whole superstructure of life? Lord possessed wisdom in the beginning of his ways, before his works of old. By his wisdom hath he founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens." vegetation, "The It is not by any marked variation in the extremes of heat, but in their continuance, and in the extremes of cold, that the different climates of the earth are characterised.* Thus, although the extremes of heat may be the same at two places, the whole amounts of heat which they receive in the course of a year may be very different. If a place be imagined to receive the same quantity of heat every day that it radiates, so that the temperature of that place may remain throughout the year the same; and if the heat, which in this imaginary and impossible case would be received by that place amounted in the whole year to that which it actually does receive, then would that place have what is called its mean temperature. Now, it is to the whole amount of heat received in the course of the year, or, perhaps, the season, and therefore to the amount of the mean temperature of each place, that the forms of vegetation appear to have a special adaptation. So that, whilst to the fructification of all the forms of vegetable life nearly the same extreme heat would seem to be requisite, there are different classes which affect different limits of mean temperature. If a traveller be supposed to set out eastward, and to visit in succession all those places which have the same mean temperature, he will trace out on the earth's surface what is called an isothermal line; and Thus, between the tropics the extreme heat of about 90° appears to remain nearly the whole year long-the seasons being there characterised rather as wet and dry than as hot and cold. Frost does not make its appearance in Europe beyond the 40° of latitude; and the cold felt from lat. 35° to lat. 60° is that which distinguishes it, from the torrid, as the temperate zone. It is here only that four seasons prevail; within the tropics there are none; and within the frigid zone but two. Let it be repeated that this must be taken only as an approximate law. Whilst the great characteristics of vegetation undoubtedly depend upon the mean temperature, there are others in which differences of extreme temperature are concerned. The birch and pine are examples. The fructification of the birch requires a higher temperature than that of the pine; but the pine requires a greater continuance of heat, that is, a higher mean temperature. The birch for this reason finds its way much farther north than the pine; for it receives the extreme summer heat necessary to its fructification in latitudes where the pine would not obtain that continuance of heat, or that mean temperature, which it requires. Thus, "at Enontekies, in Lapland, where the mean temperature is only -278, magnificent forests of birch are seen; whilst at the island of Megaroe, where it is above zero, only a few scanty shrubs will grow." The reason is, that in the former place the summer heat reaches 15°; whilst in the latter it only rises to 7 or 8°. he will every where encounter analogous features of vegetation.* Let the imagination now fall back upon that single impulse, upon the direction of which has depended from the beginning of time the position of the earth's axis, and by reason of which it shall come to pass that while the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease (Gen. viii. 21, 22); let it be seen poised in reference to that distribution of temperature which it was thus to determine to the end of time, and to the forms of vegetation whose varieties that temperature was destined to control, from the gigantic palm, the mimosa,† and the baobab of the tropics, to the cedars, chestnuts, beeches, oaks, pines, and birches, of the temperate zone, and the lichens of arctic regions. Let each bud, from the evanescent germ and unseen vegetation of Mildew, to the huge bulb whence expands the giant Rafflesia Arnoldi ;‡ each blossom, from that of the minutest of the Algæ§ to the magnificent flower but recently discovered floating on the surface of a stream in the solitude of the forests of Guiana ;||— let each have some given temperature at which it is bidden to expand its leaves, to open its cup, and thrust forth its petals; and every fruit a warmth which is destined to ripen it, and a heat fatal to it. Extend this influence of temperature to all the various forms of vegetable life which clothe the green earthfamilies and species, whose numbers are counted by hundreds of thousands. Multiply them then by the countless myriads of individuals which compose every species. Join to these the myriads of forms of animal life whose existence connects itself with vegetation: the insects, whose countless species crowd each to its appointed repast, in the leafy forest, or upon the herbage; the reptiles, who feast upon the roots of trees; the birds, who live among their branches, and upon their fruits; and the cattle upon a thousand hills- the antelope, the ox, the horse, the camel, and the elephant: to these, again, add those thousands of orders of carnivorous animals that prey upon them. Carry this prospect through the predacious insecttribes; and from that owl, whose solitary wing it is that cleaves the frozen air of the pole, to the ravenous birds in innumerable tribes that crowd to their banquet of flesh in the tepid scas, and amidst the prurient vegetation of the tropics-the condor, and the albatross, and the eagle; include, too, the quadrupeds of prey-the arctic fox, and wolf, and bear; the lion of Africa, the tiger of Asia, and the jaguar of southern America. That nothing may be wanting to the picture, embrace in it the inhabitants of the deep, to whose dwelling is reserved seven-eighths of the whole surface of the globe; those that pasture quietly in its unfathomable depths, and those that traverse the wide expanse of its surface in search of prey: join to these the slimy and unsightly tribe, whose habitation is partly on the land, and partly in the water- the turtle, the lizard, the Vegetable forms are said to present, under the same isothermal lines, such constant relations, that when, upon any point of the earth, we know the number of species belonging to any one of the great families, both the whole number of phænogamous plants, and the number of species composing the other vegetable families, may be estimated with considerable accuracy.' + Humboldt speaks of a mimosa near the village Turmero, south-west of the city of Caraccas, whose hemispherical head is 600 feet in circumference. The trunk of the baobab (an African tree) has been known to attain a diameter of 34 feet, and a circumference, therefore, of more than 100 feet. This flower, discovered in 1818 in Sumatra by Dr. Arnold, is one yard in diameter; and its nectarium would hold twelve pints. That minute vegetation which we call mildew, and the plant which produces this flower, both belong to the class of Fungi. $ The crimson snow, which so long astonished the voyagers to arctic regions, is now ascertained to be a minute form of vegetation, of the order Alga. The Victoria Regina. crocodile, and the hippopotamus" leviathan and behemoth" (Job, xl., xli.). Let the imagination summon before it all these in countless myriads-" every living creature, beast and cattle, and creeping thing of the earth; every winged fowl, and moving creature which the waters bring forth; and every plant of the field which God made before it was in the earth; and every herb of the field before it grew” (Gen. i., ii.): animal life, in all its forms, depending ultimately on the distribution of vegetable life; this, again, upon temperature; and temperature for all its great modifications upon the direction of that one primeval impulse. Let all these things be seen comprehended in it, and included in the scope of that vision which directed it; let the mind have elevated itself to the conception of these things in all their visible forms and modifications, yet will it not have approached the threshold of the wisdom and knowledge of the mighty Artificer. As yet the soul but worships in the vestibule of the temple of the universe. "Verily, O God, as yet thou hidest thyself; dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto" (Is. xlv. 15; 1 Tim. vi. 16). Were the distribution of temperature limited to these astronomical causes, its isothermal lines would all lie parallel to the equator, and its effects would manifest themselves in zones extending uniformly to the poles. Each region having its own temperature would have its own uniform vegetation; and that variety which enters, it would seem, as a constituent element into the exercise of creative power, would be straitened in its development. And, despoiled of its boundless variety, the existing economy of nature would be shorn of half its beauty. But it is not thus: causes other than the original impulse, and the inclination of the earth's axis, and the lengths of the day and year, dependent upon that impulse, operate in the production of climate; and these with so extensive an effect, that the climate proper to every zone, accompanied by its vegetation, is not unfrequently brought about within a few miles of the same spot.† "Many, O Lord, are thy wondrous works which thou hast done; they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee if we would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. When thy word goeth forth, it doth not return unto thee void, but accomplisheth that which pleaseth thee. As thou hast thought, so doth it come to pass; and as thou hast purposed, so doth it stand." Biography. THE LIFE OF JOHN EVELYN, ESQ. THE family from which the subject of this memoir sprung was one of considerable antiquity. They came originally from Evelyn, near Tower Castle, in Shropshire; whence they removed to Harrow-on-the-Hill, and afterwards took up their abode at Long Ditton. Wotton (the estate of Mr. Evelyn's father) had been in the family, at the time when the subject of this narrative wrote his " Diary," about one hundred and When we contemplate a collection of plants, or of insects, or view an assemblage of animals belonging to various orders of creation, and from different regions-having made large allow ance for those varieties of colour, size, and especially of form, which connect themselves with the particular wants and economy of the life of each,-it is impossible not to be struck with the fact, that a variety remains not assignable to any of these causes; a variety to the operating principle of which no other analogy presents itself than the exercise of that faculty of imagination in man, which is perhaps its type. On the Peak of Teneriffe five zones of temperature may be traced at successive elevations by corresponding zones of vegetation. Vines form the first; next are laurels; then pines; afterwards the alpine broom; and lastly, the arctic grasses. 1 For the materials of this memoir I have referred to Mr. Evelyn's Diary;" his Life by the Rev. R. B. Hone, M.A. CHURCH OF ENGLAND MAGAZINE. sixty years. Richard Evelyn, the father of John, was high-sheriff for Surrey and Sussex at the same time. His mother was the only daughter and heiress of John Standsfield, Esq., of an old and honourable family in Shropshire; of these parents John was the fourth child, and was born at Wotton, on the 31st of October, 1620. After receiving his early education at his father's home, he was sent, at the age of five years, to reside with his grandfather at the Cliff near Lewes. When he was in his twelfth year, his father proposed to send him to Eton; but the lad becoming alarmed at hearing of the rough treatment he would probably encounter there, he was sent back to Lewes, instead of to Eton, and there remained until he went to the University in May 1637. Having removed from Oxford (where he had been a fellow-commoner of Balliol College), he studied law at the Middle Temple; but his pursuits there received an interruption by the death of his father, which event took place on the 24th of December, 1640. In consequence of the London riots, the dissemination of seditious libels, and the execution of the Earl of Strafford, he resolved to absent himself for some time from his country. Accordingly he set out for Holland, and continued his tour through Flanders; and returned to England, after an absence of three months. It was not long, however, before he was induced to set out upon a longer travel, through France, Italy, and Switzerland; his motive being to escape, by absence from home, the necessity of taking Finding it imthe solemn league and covenant. possible to evade the doing very unhandsome things," he procured from the king license to travel. Returning to Paris in 1646, and taking up his abode there during the winter of that year, he became intimate with the family of Sir Richard Browne, the British ambassador, to whose only daughter he was afterwards The period married, on the 27th of June, 1647. between his marriage and the beginning of the year 1652 was passed partly at Paris, and partly in journeys to England, whither his private business called In February 1652 he crossed, him more than once. with his family, from Calais to Dover, purposing shortly to take up his abode at Sayes Court, near Deptford. He did not proceed instantly to this place, but took a lodging at Tunbridge; from which place, as he was riding towards Sayes Court, two ruffians started out upon him, and dragging him into a thicket, robbed him, and bound him hand and foot, with his In this state he remained two back against a tree. hours; after which time he extricated himself, though not without much difficulty and pain, from his distressing situation. In speaking of this occurrence, be makes his deliverance a matter of much thankfulmany signal preservaness to God; and refers to " tions," which he remembered with gratitude. It does not appear that religion had exercised any important influence over the mind of Mr. Evelyn in the early part of his life. He had cultivated his mind and taste in various ways; and possessed those acquirements which gain for a man the reputation of a scholar and a gentleman. But we are without satisfactory evidence that the love of his God and Saviour was deeply planted in his heart. Still" his father's example, and his mother's dying instruction, made a strong impression upon his mind. Not one expres- Mr. Evelyn complained of the character of the pulpit instruction which he found generally prevailing It will be after his return from the continent. remembered that the clergy had been ejected from their parochial charges, and that extempore prayers were used in most churches. The fault he found with the teaching of the pulpit at this time was, that it was not sufficiently practical, but consisted of "high and speculative points, and strains that few understood; which left the people very ignorant, and of no steady principles, the source of all our sects and divisions; for there was much envy and uncharity in the world." It is probable that the usual style of preaching at the time to which the above remark refers was, in many particulars, defective; at the same time, we must not forget that the true source of all effectual preaching is the doctrine of "Christ crucified;" and that we must by no means reckon that great foundation - doctrine among "high and speculative points." No notion has been more prevalent, while none can be more mischievous, than that above alluded to; but we may trust it is among the number of those mistakes which are being fast dissipated by the greater light of the present day. The distinguishing truths of Christ's religion are daily becoming better understood; and men are seeing that every thing vital in religion is drawn fresh from the spring of evangelical doctrine. I do not mean to surmise that Mr. Evelyn, in the above expression, was glancing at the peculiar truths of the Gospel; but I know that these truths have sometimes been spoken of in similar language. He mentions a wholesome practice which he used at "those this time - that of catechising his children, exercises universally ceasing in the parish churches, so that people had no principles [beginnings, as the word means; first elements of divine knowledge], and grew very ignorant of even the common points of Christianity, all devotion being now placed in hearing sermons and discourses of speculative and notional things." It is bad for the interests of a Church when any one of its ordinances is entirely disused. Catechising is not more important than preaching; but the truth is, both should go hand in hand. Let the Church "walk in all the ordinances" (as well as commandments) of her Lord; and then she will be both "blameless" and fruitful. He tells us that, "there being no such thing as Church-anniversaries in the parochial assemblies," he kept Christmas-day, Easter, Good Friday, and the other fasts and festivals, either privately celebrating Divine worship in his own house, or visiting any among his friends resident in London who were members of the Church of England. He speaks of an "excellent man and worthy divine, Mr. Owen of Eltham, a sequestered person" (ejected from his parochial cure), whose ministry he used privately in his family. In London he went sometimes to a private house, where some of the orthodox sequestered divines did use the Common Prayer, administer sacraments, &c. ;" and, in the years 1654 and 1655, he attended at St. Gregory's, a small Church near St. Paul's Cathedral, "the ruling powers conniving at the use of the liturgy, &c. in this church alone." The edict of the protector, forbidding all ministers of the Church of England from preaching, or teaching any schools, came out in the end of the year 1655; accordingly we find in his Diary this note on the 25th of December: "There was now no more notice taken of Christmas-day in churches. I went to London, where Dr. Wild preached the funeral sermon of preaching, this being the last day, after which Cromwell's proclamation was to take place,- that none of the Church of England should dare either to preach or administer sacraments, teach schools, &c. So this was the mournfulest day that in my life I had seen, or the Church of England herself, since the Reformation, to the great rejoicing of both papist and presbyter. The text was 2 Cor. xiii. 9; that, however persecution dealt with the ministers of God's word, they were still to pray for the flock, and wish their perfection, as it was the flock's to pray for and assist their pastors, by the example of St. Paul. So pathetic was his discourse, that it drew many tears from the auditory. Myself, wife, and some of our family, received the communion. God make me thankful, who hath hitherto provided us the food of our souls as well as bodies! The Lord Jesus pity our distressed Church, and bring back the captivity of Zion!" Persecution after this began to be so sharp that the "Church was reduced to a chamber and conventicle;" but it was of God's appointment that Christians were going through this "great trial of afflictions;" as they were drawn much more closely together, and proved the strength of their principles; for he tells us that at a private house in Fleet Street was held a great meeting of zealous Christians, who were generally much more devout and religious than in our greatest prosperity." The following anecdote will be interesting, as illustrating the dangerous state in which those were placed who adhered to the ordinances of the Sermon Church: "December 25. I went to London, with my wife, to celebrate Christmas-day; Mr. Gunning preaching in Exeter Chapel, on Micah, vii. 2. ended, as he was giving us the holy sacrament, the chapel was surrounded with soldiers, and all the communicants surprised and kept prisoners by them, some in the house, others carried away. It fell to my share to be confined to a room in the house [Exeter House], where yet I was permitted to dine with the master of it, and the Countess of Dorset, Lady Hatton, and some others of quality, who invited me. In the afternoon came Colonel Whaly, Goffe, and others from Whitehall, to examine us one by one: some they committed to the marshal, some to prison. When I came before them, they took my name and abode, examined me why, contrary to an ordinance made that none should any longer observe the superstitious time of the nativity (so esteemed by them), I durst offend; and particularly be at Common Prayers, which they told me was but the mass in English, and particularly pray for Charles Stuart, for which we had no Scripture. I told them we did not pray for Charles Stuart, but for all Christian kings, princes, and governors. They replied, in so doing we prayed for the King of Spain too, who was their enemy and a papist; with other frivolous and ensnaring questions, and much threatening; and, finding no colour to detain me, they dismissed me with much pity of my ignorance. These men were men of high flight, and above ordinances, and spoke spiteful things of our Lord's nativity. As we went up to receive the sacrament, the miscreants held their muskets against us, as if they would have shot us at the altar, but yet suffered us to finish the office of communion, as perhaps not having instructions what to do in case they found us in that action. So I got home late the next day, blessed be God!" It was a great comfort to Mr. Evelyn, in these troublesome days, to meet with a valuable spiritual friend and counsellor in Dr. Jeremy Taylor. Many letters which passed between them are extant; from which it appears that the religious state of Evelyn's mind was highly satisfactory. We have the following passage in a letter from Taylor to his friend, Nov. 21, 1655. "There could not be given me a greater or more persuasive testimony of the reality of your piety and care, than that you pass to greater degrees of caution and the love of God. It is the work of your life, and I perceive you betake yourself heartily to it. The God of heaven and earth prosper you and accept you!" In a letter written by Evelyn to Taylor, soon after a visit which the latter had paid to him at Sayes Court, he thus writes: "I suppose you think me very happy in these outward things; but really I take so little satisfaction, that the censure of singularity would not affright me from embracing an hermitage, if I found that they did in the least distract my thoughts from better things; or that I did not take more pleasure and incomparable felicity in that intercourse which it pleases God to permit me, in vouchsafing so unworthy a person to prostrate himself before him, and contemplate his goodness. These are indeed gay things, and men esteem me happy; but I, a polluted and guilty sinner, am oppressed day and night with the fear of being called to my account. Whilst that account is in suspense, who can truly enjoy any thing in this life without an alloy? For I am always dread ing that I shall deceive myself by false security." Another testimony to Evelyn's piety is contained in the following answer of Dr. Taylor to one of his letters: "Sir, I am well pleased with the pious meditations and the extracts of a religious spirit which I read in your excellent letter. I can say nothing at present but this, that I hope in a short progression you will be wholly immersed in the delights and joys of religion; and as I perceive your relish and gust of the world goes off continually, so you will be invested with new capacities, and entertained with new appetites." His brother George having lost a son, Mr. Evelyn wrote him a letter full of the most worthy sentiments, and evidencing that his principles were founded on the Gospel of Christ. He would not prohibit all manifestations of natural affection, but calls upon his brother to be on his guard, "lest while we sacrifice to our passions (by which he means our strong natural sensations of grief), we be found to offend against God, and by indulging an overkind nature, redouble the loss, and lose our recompense." He concludes an affecting and instructive letter on this painful occasion in the following words: "Brother, be not ignorant concerning them which are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others which have no hope; for, if we believe that Jesus died, and rose again, even so, them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. They are the words of St. Paul, and I can add nothing to them. .... Wherefore, comfort one another with these THE Prophet of Nazareth when he uttered these words had almost finished his sojourn upon earth. The time had all but come when he should depart out of this world unto the Father. He was surrounded by those who had with much devotedness and affection attended upon his ministry, identified their own cause with his, and commenced a career, words." In the year 1658, he lost two children, which, however they might be unconscious of one having died some time before; so that he was now bereaved of three of his progeny. One of the two children, named Richard, who died in 1658, seems to have possessed knowledge and piety in a degree by no means common to his youthful age, being only five years and three days old. His father speaks of him as a "prodigy for wit and understanding; for beauty of body, a very angel; for endowments of mind, of incredible and rare hopes." After describing the extraordinary acquirement of this lad in the classics and mathematics, he says: 66 Astonishing were his applications of Scripture upon occasion, and his sense of God; he had learned all his catechism early, and understood the historical part of the Bible and New Testament to a wonder, how Christ came to redeem mankind. When one told him how many days a Quaker had fasted, he replied, that was no wonder, for Christ had said man should not live by bread alone, but by the word of God. He would of himself select the most pathetic Psalms and chapters out of Job to read to his maid during his sickness, telling her, when she pitied him, that all God's children must suffer affliction. "Such a child," he says, "I never saw; for such a child I bless God, in whose bosom he is. May I and mine become as this little child, who now follows the child Jesus, that Lamb of God, in a white robe, whither he goes: even so, Lord Jesus, thy will be done! Thou gavest him to us, thou hast taken him from us, blessed be the name of the Lord! that I had any thing acceptable to thee, was from thy grace alone; since from me he had nothing but sin-but that thou hast pardoned! blessed be my God for ever! Amen." Dr. Jeremy Taylor wrote to Mr. Evelyn and his the fact, would expose them to the end of their days to much trial, privation, and contempt. Their gracious and loving Master foresaw all this, and therefore with much candour and faithfulness communicated the fact to them before it came to pass, in order that when it did come to pass they might remember the words which he had spoken unto them. "Ye have not chosen me,' said he unto them, "but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain. These things I command you, that ye love one another. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. But all these things will for they do unto you name's sake, my because they know not Him that sent me.' Thus fully and faithfully did the compassionating Jesus forewarn his disciples. He knew whereof they were made. He remembered that they were but dust; and fearing lest, through the weakness of human infirmity, this ordeal should prove a stumbling-block |