perseverance and their faith is deduced; "fear ye not, therefore, ye are of more value than many Sparrows."

DOCTOR DONNE.

Dr. Donne, the Dean of St. Paul's, having married a lady of a rich and noble family, without the consent of the parents, was treated with great asperity. Having been told by the father, that he was to expect no money from him, the Doctor went home and wrote the following note to him, "John Donne, Anne Donne, undone." This quibble had the desired effect, and the distressed couple were restored to favour.

FENELON.

The virtuous archbishop of Cambray, Fenelon, was void of all formality snd full of the truest politeness, that of making every one comfortable about him. One day there were two German noblemen at his table, who to shew their respect for the archbishop, rose from their seats, and stood all the time they were drinking to him, according to the custom of the country. Some young French officers who were at the table at the same time, could scarcely withhold from laughing at such a novelty. The archbishop gave them a gentle reprimand by his look; called

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for wine, and stood up and drank to the Germans in the same manner that they had done to him. The officers afterwards owned how much they were ashamed of themselves, and they immediately felt how great the archbishop's hospitality was superior to that customary sort of politeness, with which alone they had been acquainted.

POPE TELESPHONIS.

Pope Telesphonis, in the second century, is the first who is recorded to have instituted days of abstinence before Easter, though they were not enforced as a religious obligation until the third century, and we find that about the year 1212, upwards of 100 persons were burnt for venturing to assert their opinion that it was lawful for Christians to eat flesh during Lent, and, what was then deemed even more sinful, "for a "priest to marry at any time of the year," contrary to ecclesiastical regulation, which afterwards absolutely interdicted them from ever entering into the connubial state.

CLERICAL DANCING.

Louis XII. of France held a grand court at Milan, in 1501, where the balls are said to have been magnificent. Two cardinals, Cardinal de

Narbonne, and Cardinal de St. Leverin, footed it there with the rest of the courtiers. Cardinal Pallavino relates, that the fathers, doctors, bishops, and other church dignitaries, assembled at the council of Trent, called for a while, in 1563, from their theological polemies, and deliberated on the important proposition of giving a ball to Philip the second, king of Spain. The project, after mature discussion was adopted, the ball was appointed, all the ladies of the city were invited, and the Spanish bigot, together with all the fathers of the council, danced on the occasion.

EXPELLING AN EVIL SPIRIT.

It is related in the life of the Rev. Philip Skelton, that he once used an extraordinary application to effect a cure on a poor woman at Luovingham, who was somewhat wrong in the head. Being sent for to visit her in the capacity of a clergyman, he went walking with a long pole in his hand; and when he got to the cabin, was shown into a sort of room where she lay. “What ails you, my good woman?" he said to her," Ah sir," she answered," there is a little woman with a red cloak and a black bonnet, that haunts "me night and day, wherever I go, and gives me 86 no peace." "Where is she now," inquired he "Oh, sir, there," (pointing with her hand)