above the Harlem River, has undertaken a new step in normal class work-the instruction of the teachers in the science of teaching, under an expert instructor. The demand was so new that it was hard to tell where to look for the proper person to undertake this task, which was felt to be of singular difficulty.

Few Sunday-school teachers, as indeed few other people, are fully aware of the growth of the new science of Pedagogy-with its experimental field, its data of experience, its resulting laws-all coming from and grouped around the little Child," set in the midst."

The teacher who will undertake this work and make the effort to discuss Sunday-school teaching in the light of modern pedagogy is Dr. Walter L. Hervey, President of the Teachers' College, New York. A syllabus of the course of study will be prepared with a full bibliography, and the lectures on "The Art and Methods of Teaching," which will occur fortnightly on Monday evenings, will partake of the general character of university extension work. Those who are interested can obtain copies of the syllabus by addressing (with stamp) Mr. C. W. Stoughton, 96 Fifth Avenue, New York.

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Why Should He Have Left?

To the Editors of The Outlook:

Is the ministry filling up? I am led to ask the question because of the fact that a personal friend has just resigned the pastorate of a strong flourishing church. He proposes to take up the practice of law. Here is a clergyman well trained, a Williams and Yale man, whose ministerial career has been without spot and blemish; his sermons have been printed in your columns, and of him the local paper says that "the church and the community alike feel his resignation to be a painful loss, of which it is doubtful if replacement can be made." He is not a failure. He has had a larger than the average proportion of men in his congregation. He does not pander to depraved taste in choice of topics. In personal dealing with men he is faithful. He takes up the legal profession because it affords scope for a mind keen and analytic, not for any thought that it is a money-making calling. He leaves the ministry because he is sensitively honest with himself. He thinks that he lacks the evangelistic ability, although he has the temperament. He cannot make those formal efforts for popularity that in a social way seem to be required of the clergy. He does not see the necessity of making calls on women simply to keep the peace of the church, but, as the item in the paper already mentioned states," where sickness or need came to his knowledge, wherever he can comfort or encourage, he has never failed." But it takes years to inform enough sick of the worth of such a man, in contrast with the drinker of tea and dispenser of small talk. He is not forced out of his present pulpit, and he declines to enter the scramble for vacant pastorates, where one must pull wires, be possessed of large frame, orotund voice, and politic suavity. He is up-to-date, about forty years of age, genial, and loving the companionship of men.

If there is in the ministry no place commensurate with the material needs of such a man, there is none for a lot of less virile natures. To be willing to give up a certainty for an uncertainty, financially, solely for the reason that he over-distrusts himself as to the pastoral requirements of a church, is not the act of a weak man. Surely there ought to be some place for such a man, and what troubles me most is the failure of any system outside of the Episcopacy to bring church and minister together.

In your issue of October 17, p. 682, is the article entitled "A Theological Etching," with which I heartily agree, yet on your interpretation of the phrase "for His own glory" I desire to suggest a modification. I held for years the same view you express, but was obliged to change it when I realized the meaning of the word glory, which, as you know, means "shining forth"-a revelation or making known God in his fullness and perfectness. With that understanding of the word it is manifestly consistent that God, who is Love, should want to manifest himself as such for the "sake of his own," that his own should have fellowship with him. It is not selfishness for love to seek to win to itself its objects when their welfare, as well as its pleasure, is involved in union of subject and object in common interests and life. If the "glory" meant a selfish interest, your criticism would be well taken. I have no doubt that the theology you criticise conceived God as so great that his motive of Creation and Providence and Redemption is the gratification of himself, without regard, in the first instance, to the welfare of inferior beings. But I think that the true view is in the primary meaning of "glory," which seems to me consistent with Scripture use, reason, and the character of God.

Meadville, Pa.

R. R. D.

None whatever. The Romanist idea of a "Sacrament of Orders instituted by Christ" (as the Pope expresses it) is entirely unhistorical. A fair-minded member of the Anglican Church, the late Dr. Hatch, of Oxford, has shown this in his Bampton Lectures on "The Organization of the Early Churches." As late as the time of Jerome, who died A.D. 420, the Bishop of Alexandria, upon his election, was simply conducted by the presbyters to his chair, and so became bishop de facto. According to the "Apos

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tolic Constitutions" (of earlier date), the bishop,. being conducted to his chair the morning after his election, begins at once to act as bishop, by preaching and celebrating the Eucharist. There is no evidence that the imposition of hands was obligatory, or that exclusive spiritual powers were supposed to be conferred. Ordination was merely entrance upon the office to which one had been elected. So far from its conferring an indelible character, as now,. ordinations were made and unmade with equal facility. These things being so, it would seem that both Anglicans and Romanists, in their question about the validity of their orders, are equally pursuing a chimera. If their idea of ordination is the true one, then, as the facts stated by Dr. Hatch. show, there can hardly have been a valid ordination for the first four centuries.

A recent correspondent says there is no contemporaneous information concerning Christ. Another quotes the Annals of Tacitus in reply, and adds, his statements were and ever have been accepted as facts." Is the latter statement true? Was there anything like a "huge multitude" of Christians in Rome at the time they were said to have been seized. and convicted in this passage of the Annals of Tacitus? Is this passage referred to by any Christian father? Is there any vestige of its existence

before the fifteenth century? In the opinion of the editor of Notes and Queries, is the passage genuine or a forgery? L. D. B.

What was said was that contemporary heathen writers gave no information about Christ, beyond the mere fact of his life and death. Doubts have been cast upon the genuineness of the "Annals" of Tacitus, but they are not shared by scholars. We do not know whether any Christian Father refers to the passage. We regard it as genuine.

Please publish the reply written by General Moultrie, of South Carolina, to the British when they made overtures to him to join their cause and army, and forsake that of the struggling United States. Does any one know where can be obtained the "American Memoirs" commenced by Moultrie in prison and finished afterward by him? M. W.

He had been offered a pecuniary reward and the command of a regiment in Jamaica. He is said to have answered: "Not the fee simple of all Jamaica should induce me to part with my integrity." His "Memoirs of the American Revolution, so far as it Related to the States of North and South Carolina

and Georgia," were published in New York in 1802, in two volumes. A commission to some dealer in old books might procure a copy.

In the "Christian Science Journal" of January, '96, I find reference to the "Death Warrant of Jesus Christ," which purports to have been found "in an antique vase of white marble while excavating in the ancient city of Aquilla, in the Kingdom of Naples, in the year 1810." In the copy of March, '96, there is supplementary reference to this find, and also detailed extracts from an account of the trial of Jesus before Pilate, which is said to have been found lately "by two Italian savants who were traveling and exploring in the ruins of the ancient city of Sardis." Do these finds represent anything of genuine archæological value? Are they considered by competent scholars to be real relics, or copies of relics, of accounts contemporary with those of the New Testament? N.

So far as these finds pretend to be genuine relics of the first century, they are of no value.

Kindly give me some idea of the position of the United States in reference to Cuba to-day from an altruistic point of view; and will you give me any references to which I may turn for help on this question? Μ. Ν.

The conceivable courses open to a nation desirous of terminating the sufferings of Cuba are: (1) Remonstrance with Spain; (2) an offer to purchase Cuba of Spain; (3) effective aid to the insurgents. The first would be angrily repulsed; the second is impracti cable, both on political and economic grounds; the third would create war with Spain and greater evils than now exist. On altruistic grounds there is no cause to depart from our present policy, but to await the natural end of the trouble.

Please tell me (1) what is the best edition of the Latin New Testament? (2) What book on the Psalms will best give me the illustrations of their use in the Church? C. L. S.

1. Loch's (B. Westermann, New York, $1.25). 2. The Introduction to Moll's Commentary on the Psalms, in Lange's series.

Sunday-school Lesson Courses and Helps were recently inquired for. In addition to those named October 17, the following have been reported, viz.: On the International Lessons, the Kindergarten of the Church Association (interdenominational) issues a "Leaflet with Hand Work "for every week, at 150 Fifth Avenue, New York. "The Helper," a weekly publication of the New Church, is issued at 2129 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Lessons on Luke, a new method of Bible study, are published in New Haven, Conn., P.O. Box 1,626. These were origially prepared for use in the Center Church of that city, and have been commended by The Outlook. Sample set, 25 cents.

A plan of church work, with simple and effective illustrations, designed to enlist every member by signature, is sent to us by the pastor of the Church of the Redeemer (Congregational) in Chicago, who offers a copy to any applicant among our readers. Address 1920 George Avenue, Chicago.

In last week's number of The Outlook "M. D." asks for the author of "The hand that rocks," etc. In reading yesterday's "Ledger" I found the inclosed item, and send to you, trusting it will reach "M. D." Α. Μ. Κ.

The compilers of books of quotations have until lately searched in vain for the authorship of the well-known quotation:

"The hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world."

some time later called Thomas J. Leigh from the room, and handed to him a poem which he had just written. Mr. Leigh read it aloud to the company, and Mr. Brougham made a happy little speech of of acknowledgment. The thing was entitled 'What Rules the World,' and the first stanza ran:

""They say that man is mighty,
He governs land and sea,
He wields a mighty scepter
O'er lesser powers that be;
But a mightier power and stronger
Man from his throne has hurled,
And the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.'

"Miss Roberts obtained these facts from Mr. Leigh, three years ago, and was told that he (then 71 years old) and Isaiah Moran (then 76) were the only survivors of the little party that heard the first reading of the poem." -Philadelphia Ledger.

I have copied for "C. H. M." the verses asked for in The Outlook of October 24. They are to be found in "Carlo" or "The Rollo and Lucy Second Book of Poetry," by Jacob Abbott a book which is as delightful to the children of this generation as to those of the last. It was published in 1866, and should be one of the "children's classics," being worth a halfdozen of the modern gift-books for entertainment and instruction. F. T. R.

RULES FOR BEHAVIOR AT TABLE

In silence I must take my seat,
And give God thanks before I eat;
Must for my food in patience wait
Till I am asked to hand my plate;
I must not scold, nor whine, nor pout,
Nor move my chair or plate about;
With knife, or fork, or napkin-ring
I must not play-nor must I sing;
I must not speak a useless word,
For children should be seen, not heard.
I must not talk about my food,
Nor fret if I don't think it good;
My mouth with food I must not crowd,
Nor while I'm eating speak aloud;
Must turn my head to cough or sneeze,
And when I ask, say, "If you please;"
The tablecloth I must not spoil,
Nor with my food my fingers soil;
Must keep my seat when I have done,
Nor round the table sport or run;
When told to rise, then I must put
My chair away with noiseless foot,
And lift my heart to God above
In praise for all his wondrous love.

Having just seen in The Outlook for October 24 a request for the inclosed hymn, I have taken pleasure in copying it, mostly from memory, for the inquirer. I learned it when a child from" Watts' and Select Hymns," and have verified the copy by reference to a copy of that publication, the dear old hymn-book of my childhood. М. Т. С.

What is the thing of greatest price
The whole creation round?
That which was lost in Paradise,
That which in Christ is found.

The soul of man, Jehovah's breath,
That keeps two worlds at strife;
Hell moves beneath to work its death,
Heaven stoops to give it life.

God, to reclaim it, did not spare
His well-belovèd Son;

Jesus, to save it, deigned to bear
The sins of all in one.

And is this treasure borne below

In earthen vessels frail?

Can none its utmost value know
Till flesh and spirit fail?

Then let us gather round the cross

That knowledge to obtain,
Not by the soul's eternal loss,
But everlasting gain.

-James Montgomery.

Can any one inform me where to find the short poem "Fate"? I can recall only one line-the first, I think:

"Two may be born the whole wide world apart." The verses end: "And this is fate."

J. S. B. The poem inquired for by "A." in The Outlook of October 24 is the one beginning

"I hear thee speak of a better land," the stanza ending with

"Not there, not there, my child!" The poem is by Mrs. Hemans, the title being "The Better Land." S. B. T.

Lady Henry Somerset has sent the follow

Feet of Clay

I burned my heart as incense night and day Before a shrine where scorners turned away. Upward I gazed, and only cared to see The glorious face that showed a god to me. I kissed the garment's hem That swept about the feet and covered them. But hands unhallowed tore the robe aside. "Behold thine Idol!" mocking voices cried; "He whose winged flight thy blind embrace would stay

Hath feet-ah, hear!-of clay!"

Pass, bitter hearts! the smile of scorn is mine; The worship his, whom still I deem divine. What if the touch of earth, its base desires, Its dross unpurified in passion's fires,

Cling to the feet I kiss?

Oh light were love, to forfeit faith for this ! What loss were his, what woful gain were mine,

If from that sun-and-star-illumined shrine
One heart's poor candle I should take away-
I, who am all of clay?

Haply our homage had not seemed so dear,
Haply he had not sought a temple here,
Nor in his service had I known such joy,
But for the mingling of that earth-alloy!
O soul that woke for him,

What larger hope hath lit thy prison dim!
May I not rise from these unquickened clods
To claim eternal kinship with the gods?
To godlike stature grow, though bearing-yea,
Like him the print of clay?

-Louise Betts Edwards, in Harper's Magazine.

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The New York Aquarium

By W. H. Hale

It is strange that a great metropolis like New York, surrounded by waters teeming with life, has never yet had a public aquarium. This deficiency will soon be supplied, however. Castle Garden, after years of preparation, has been fitted and refitted for the purpose. The completion of the work was delayed by change of plans, but it is now in such a stage of forwardness that the aquarium is to be opened to the public in November, at least as far as the ground floor.

Peculiar advantages of situation are found in the fact that an inexhaustible supply of seawater can be pumped up, well filtered by percolation through the strata underlying the building.

A recent visit to Castle Garden showed repairs still in progress, while most of the tanks are complete, and many of them are already

stocked.

The director, Dr. Tarleton H. Bean, was for twenty years associated with the late G. Brown Goode. Dr. Bean has supervised the preparation of the building, and the collection of fishes and aquatic animals so far as already made. It is his hope ultimately to have a laboratory well equipped for scientific research, somewhat on the plan of those at Wood's Holl and at Naples. At present, however, the plans of the management seem limited to furnishing an exhibition for the people, and the director is obliged to content himself with such incidental advantages to scientific study as time and opportunity may develop.

The lower floor, to which the public will first be admitted, contains several large tanks in the floor itself, and a circle of smaller ones ranged around the wall. The floor tanks all have fish or other marine animals. The largest tank, which the visitor first encounters on entering, has several varieties of shark, including sand-sharks and dog-fish. Near this is a tank containing two very intelligent and amiable seals; another is stocked with sturgeon; the rest have smaller fish of different kinds. Only one or two of the wall-tanks on the ground floor are already in use.

On the next floor or gallery is a row of tanks about the wall, nearly all of which are already stocked. The display at the aquarium includes quite a variety of common fish, and a pretty fair sprinkling of odd and bizarre ones, such as the file-fish, toad-fish, balloon-fish, and many crustaceans, including quite a large collection of hermit crabs, horseshoe crabs, spider crabs, lobsters, shrimps, etc.

A large room adjoining the gallery contains Dr. Spencer's collection in glass jars. Radiates and molluscs predominate here, including a great variety of sea-anemones, some of them very beautiful, and specimens of coral. One of the latter has been kept in the jar for two years in the same water, fresh water having been added from time to time only to make good the loss caused by evaporation. The equilibrium between oxygen and carbonic acid is maintained by keeping the broad-leaved sealettuce in the same jar, which assimilates the carbonic acid given off by the coral, and supplies oxygen which is required by the latter. Several kinds of barnacles are also contained in the jars.

It is noteworthy that the same year marks the opening of the aquarium at the Battery and the laying out of the botanical garden in the annexed district, while the zoological garden

also seems to be almost secured. Thus cred

itable provision will be made for prosecuting researches in all departments of biology, and on a scale worthy of the grandeur of the present city and of the Greater New York soon to follow.

Dew

At evening, when the noise of life is done
And earth lets fall her labors with the sun,
And calls her children, weary with their play,
In from the busy tumult one by one,
How tenderly the heat and hurts of day
She washes in her infinite baths away!
-Charles G. D. Roberts, in Lippincott's
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