eries; they had succeeded in rescuing the sacred vessels and a crucifix from the chapel of the royal palace. A band of drunken soldiers stopped them, and endeavored to wrest their precious burden from them. "What," exclaimed a courageous young man, holding his crucifix aloft as he spoke, "What, you are fighting for freedom? Let me tell you that this freedom can only be obtained through the cross of Jesus Christ!"
Let us once more transport ourselves to Paris, two and thirty years later. This time no revolution has broken out, everything is quiet. But a vehicle is being driven through the huge city, a vehicle belonging to the government; it has been sent forth by Jules Ferry, the minister of public education, with instructions to the official in charge of the same to remove from all schoolrooms throughout the city every crucifix, and every representation of Christ. What a contrast have we here! Yonder is a man who holds the crucifix aloft, here we behold one who breaks the cross into pieces! But that is a picture of men in the present day, as they are to be met with so often, and in so many places. They are divided into two great camps: the men who render to God the things that are God's, and those who take from God the "things that rightly belong to Him, that is to say, who do not perform their religious duties. I trust that you belong to the former class, that you render to
