doned the profession only when compelled to the step by scruples of conscience. Mr. Pierpont's hymns combine in a remarkable way terseness and tenderness. One of these, written for the opening of the Independent Congregational Church, in Barton Square, Salem, Massachusetts, December 7, 1824, is very well known both in this country and England:

"O Thou, to whom in ancient time

The lyre of Hebrew bards was strung; Whom kings adored in songs sublime,

And prophets praised with glowing tongue;

"Not now on Zion's height alone,

Thy favoured worshippers may dwell,

Nor where at sultry noon Thy Son

Sat weary, by the patriarch's well:

"From every place below the skies,

The grateful song, the fervent prayer,
The incense of the heart, may rise
To heaven, and find acceptance there.

"To Thee shall age with snowy hair,

And strength and beauty, bend the knee; And childhood lisp with reverent air,

Its praises and its prayers to Thee.

"O Thou, to whom, in ancient time,

The lyre of prophet-bards was strung,To Thee, at last, in every clime,

Shall temples rise and praise be sung."

WHEN A FRENCH EXILE WAS

BOSTON'S BISHOP

UST one hundred years ago (September 29, 1803) the first Catholic temple in the city of Boston was erected on Franklin Street, and five years later, in 1808, St. Patrick's Church, the first Catholic meeting-house in the State of Maine, was built at Damariscotta Mills. The fact that both these edifices came into being through the efforts of one man, a French exile, who was afterwards a prince of the Church, renders their history of decided interest. The country church, much of the material for which was brought from Europe, is still standing

ST. PATRICK'S CHURCH, DAMARISCOTTA

MILLS, ME. (1807)

CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS, FRANK

LIN ST, BOSTON, MASS. (1803) Two churches built by Bishop Cheverus