"Creed," retorted the præfect, "requires them "to render unto Cæsar the things which are "Cæsar's; this man withholds the Emperor's "dues; lead him to torment." The good Deacon was thereupon placed on a gridiron, over a slow fire, and broiled to death, on the 10th August, 258, amidst the horrid shouts and exultations of surrounding barbarians.

The fortitude with which he sustained his excruciating agonies is the theme of most of his historians, some of whom, in their zeal, not only record him to have declared, that "he felt rather comforted than tormented;" but even that, in triumph be bade his executioners" to

"him on the other side, for that the one down"wards was broiled enough."

From the circumstance of St. Lawrence having been by birth a Spaniard he has ever been held in much veneration by the Spanish nation; his fortitude has been extolled by innumerable of their writers, and his piety most strongly recommended as worthy of imitation; yet has the pride for which the Grandees have been remarkable, occasionally overcome the superstition of the country and with it every notion of piety. "St. Lawrence," said a Castilian courtier to the Spanish monarch within the last century, "did not, as the priests "declare, so nobly bear his sufferings, assisted

<< by God's grace, but solely by the valour inhe<< rent in him as a Spaniard!"

MASSILLON.

When this illustrious man was asked where a man like him, whose life was dedicated to retirement, could borrow his admirable descriptions of real life, he answered: "from the human "heart; however little we may examine it, we "shall find in it the seeds of every passion. "When I compose a sermon, I imagine myself "consulted upon some doubtful piece of busi64 ness. I give it my whole application to de"termine the person who has recourse to me, to "act the good and proper part. I exhort him, "I urge him, and I quit him not till he has "yielded to my persuasions.

On preaching the first Advent Sermon at Marseilles, Louis XIV. paid the following most expressive tribute to the power of his eloquence: "Father, when I hear others preach, I am very "well pleased with them: when I hear you, I "am dissatisfied with myself." The first time he preached his sermon on the small number of the elect, the whole audience were at a certain part of it seized with such violent emotion, that almost every person half rose from his seat, as if

to shake off the horror of being one of the cast out into everlasting darkness.

When Baron, the actor, came from hearing one of his Sermons, “Friend, " said he to one of the same profession who accompanied, "here is an orator; we are only actors."

INTREPID BISHOP.

A house in the town of Auch had taken fire, the whole staircase was in flames; and in the highest story there was a feeble old woman, cut off apparently from every way of escape. The, Bishop of the place offered two thousand francs. to any person who would rescue her from destruction. No one presented himself; the flames made rapid progress; the unfortunate victim. of years and infirmity was on the point of perishing. The bishop did not stop any longer to deliberate, he wrapped a wet cloth around him; rushed into the midst of the raging element; reached the woman, and brought her down in safety.

DOCTOR SOUTH.

The learned and witty preacher, Dr. South, sometime before his death, resided at Paversham, in Oxfordshire. Having occasion to go to London on particular affairs, he took the opportunity of paying a morning visit to his old friend, Dr.

Waterland. The Doctor rejoiced to see him, pressed him to stay to dinner, which he consented to do; but the doctor's lady, who was a remarkable economist, calling her husband into an adjoining room, began to expostulate with him on the absurdity of asking the gentleman to dine, when he knew she was utterly unprovided. The doctor endeavoured to pacify her by saying it was his fellow collegian, and he could not do less than ask him to dine; he therefore begged she would compose herself and hasten to provide something elegant, for there was not a man in the world he respected more than the friend that was now come to see him. This, instead of mending the matter, made it worse; the lady said, she had already got a leg of mutton, and if he would be so silly as to invite his friends upon such occasions, they should take what she had to give them, for she would not be put out of her way for any of them. The doctor was now provoked beyond all patience, and protested that if it were not for the stranger then in the house he would chastise her. Dr. South, who had heard the whole dialogue, and was not a little diverted, instantly stopped the dispute, by saying with his usual good humour, in a voice loud enough to be heard, "Dear Doctor, as we "have been friends so long, I beseech you not

"to make a stranger of me upon this occasion." The lady ashamed of the discovery, retired, and appeared no more that day, but ordered a handsome dinner to be served up, and left the two doctors to enjoy themselves peaceably, to their mutual satisfaction.

MR. DRAKE.

Dean Cowper, of Durham, who was very economical of his, wine, descanting one day on the extraordinary performance of a man who was blind, he remarked, that the poor fellow could see no more than "that bottle." "I do not won"der at it at all, Sir," replied Mr. Drake, a minor canon, "for we have seen no more than that bottle, all the afternoon."

JEWS.

From the preface to Leland's collection, it appears, that Mr. Richard Waller believed the Jews to have been settled in England during the su-. premacy of the Romans; the ground of his conjecture being this: "Above seventy years ago, "there was found at London, in Mark Lane, a

Romish brick, having on one side a bas relief, representing Sampson driving the foxes into a "field of corn, which brick was the key of an "arched vault, discovered at the same time full