which had thrown new light on the branch of medical science that he had made his specialty. He had studied, and investigated, and experimented, toiling for "La Gloire," as only a Frenchman can. He had pursued the bubble, Reputation: he had worked late and early; and at last Fame, he had it! The papers in the boulevards were full of the fame of the young doctor, and it was decided that he should get, what is the aim and ambition of every Frenchman, the red ribbon of the Legion of Honor. He was on his death-bed, and far gone in consumption, gaunt and ghastly, with his eyes in a flame, yet with his mind searching and investigating to the last, and thinking, "Surely this will bring me undying fame," when there came to him a messenger with the red ribbon of the Legion of Honor. When the eyes of the young man rested upon it, he said, "Just what I have been toiling for, undying honor." He took it up, and feeling the hand of death upon him, he raised himself in the bed, and exclaimed, "I will not die! I will not die!" and he fell back and died, with the decoration in his hand.

In the gorgeous ritual that inaugurates the coronation and enthronement of the popes, there is a remarkable stage. When the wall that had

closed the entrance, where the college of cardinals had been electing the Pope, has been broken open, and the voice of the clerk of the Holy College has been heard proclaiming the name of him who is to be Pope, a procession is formed to St. Peter's: and, as they pass with all the splendor of ecclesiastical display upon them, up the echoing aisle of that wonderful building to where the throne is, on the other side of the high altar, there is a sudden pause; and amid the silence, before the new Pope, a priest suddenly appears, within his hand a reed, and on the top of the reed, a loose bundle of flax. The lighted taper in his other hand is applied to the straggling ends of the flax; there is a sudden flare, and in a moment the ashes have fallen at the feet of the supreme pontiff; and you hear a sonorous voice say, "Pater Sancte, sic transit gloria. mundi." (Holy Father, thus passeth the glory of the world.) Another bundle of flax is placed on the reed; the white ashes sprinkle the place; and again the voice says, "Pater Sancte, sic transit gloria mundi." For a third time the impressive ceremony takes place, and the voice proclaims just the text, "So passeth away the glory of this world." The burning flax is a poor symbo! of the passing

glory of this world. Christ alone has the

Eternity is the only reality. power to change destiny by changing character. The gift of His character to an immortal soul is the gift of His glorious destiny. Let us give the most triumphant shout of mortal lips, "Thanks be unto God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."

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