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of doctrine, and was prepared to defend it tooth and nail, solely for the honor and glory that warriors win.

“If the Church is elastic, and stretches to the shape of the time, she’ll last, I suppose,” said Cornelius. “If not— Only think, I bought a copy of Paley’s Evidences, beat edition, broad margins, excellent preservation, at a book-stall the other day for--ninepence; and I thought that at this rate Christianity must be in rather a bad way.”

“No, no!” said the other, almost angrily. “It only shows that such defences are no longer necessary. Men’s eyes oan see the truth withont extraneous assistance. Besides, we are in for Christianity, and must stick to her, whether or no, I am just now going right through Pasey’s Library of the Fathers.”

“You'll be a bishop, Joshua, before you have done!”

“Ah!” said the other, bitterly, shaking his head. “Perhaps I might have been—I might have been! But where is my D.D. or LL.D.? and how be a bishop without that kind of appendage? Archbishop Tillotson waa the son of a Sowerby clothier, but he was sent to Clare College. To hail Oxford or Cambridge as alma maier is not for me—for us! My God! when I think of what we should have been—what fair promise has been blighted by that cursed, worthless—”

“Hush, hush !... But I feel it, too, as much as you. I have seen it more forcibly lately. You would have obtained your degree long before this time—poesibly fellowship— and I should have been on my way to mine.”

“Don’t talk of it,” asid the other. “We must do the best we can.”

They looked out of the window sadly through the dusty panes, so high up that only the sky was visible. By degrees the haunting trouble loomed again, and