bling from the sphere of their terrible strength, those waves evermore utter the same language: "Thou art the King of glory, O Christ!

'And never will He want a people to echo that song from the depth of hearts filled with the preciousness of redeeming love. But oh, of what are they dreaming, who see tokens of the gradual approach of His kingdom, the peaceful overflow of Gospel truth throughout the world, in such times as these! An universal overturn is all that I can look for; fierce struggle of the Evil One, in all his permitted power, to subjugate for a time to his own infernal sway what he well knows must yet become the kingdom of our God and of His Christ. For this we are expressly prepared; but I fear that very many, even among the most spiritual, look on present events with little, if any, reference to this fact. It would add a thrilling interest to some things that we are lamenting rather in private than on public grounds.'

Are you alluding now to the sanguinary scenes to which the most youthful among the monarchs of socalled Christendom are now again being conducted, as to feasts and pastimes?'

'Yes, truly, I am. The young Queen of Spain is already so trained in this Satanic school, that it would be the most natural thing possible to behold her the delighted superintendent of an auto-da-fé, of the ancient fashion, revelling in the death-pangs of persecuted Christians, and no less savagely-persecuted Jews. The young princes of France, and, shame to womanhood! the bride of one of them, have been the wretched child's companions in the horrible sport. Europe may look to it, when France and Spain whet their fangs after this fashion, though it be but in the blood of helpless,

goaded, mangled brutes; for there is higher prey in prospect.'

'And, alas! uncle-must we number England, generous England in the list?'

'No: England would rise as one man against.the introduction here of what England's rulers may go abroad to enjoy No: the husbands, and the fathers, and the brothers, who are yonder conducting the females of their household over these pleasant sands, albeit too many of them thoughtlessly lend themselves to the introduction of foreign follies, and worse, where their fathers strove to preserve an exclusiveness at which they laugh; those men would stand shoulder to shoulder in a phalanx not to be despised, ere they would permit their gentle companions to become the hardened spectators of a public shamble. The horrors of that doublydoomed land of Spain, are not even to be thought of here but the courtly butchery of a Saxon court, howsoever recommended, howsoever patronized, is, as yet, out of the question too. There is no knowing how far the god of this world may lead his votaries; but it would take time, I should think, to bring us to such a pass.'

Observe, dear uncle, how soothing is the word of promise: how exactly applicable to what we shudderingly deprecate for our poor country. It declares, "None shall hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord." No tortured animals shall then be compelled to trample on their own entrails, to make royal sport for queens and princes; no wholesale butchery shall heap the entrance-path with piles of mangled, though not so dreadfully agonized, victims, that passing female royalty may gaze and admire the termination of a scene enacted before her eyes. Oh that we may all

be roused to fervent prayer on behalf of those whom we are bound deeply to reverence and to love, and from whom the crafty enemy is now alienating the hearts of those who cannot be disloyal.'

'This painful subject has quite marred the pleasure of our walk; but better so than that we should be selfishly acquiescent in what is so grievously wrong, and menaces the safety of the land. If public feeling be not sufficiently plain in expressing itself, the next excursion may be to Spain; the next spectacle a bullfight. There was a small beginning last year, to which I need not allude; and I did hope that an effectual check was then interposed. We must not weary in praying; neither must we cease openly to protest, when English feeling, based as it is on sound religious principle, is so outraged. But come, let us now dismiss the sad subject, and look with thankful hearts upon the great and glorious works of God. For six thousand years this tide has ebbed and flowed, as now it does at our feet. It speaks the language addressed to Israel of old, and to Israel now, and to us, whom the Lord hath also brought into covenant with Himself, which covenant we have been continually breaking. It tells of His faithfulness, which is our only stay; it repeats the story of His everlasting love. "I am the LORD; I change not: therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed." Therefore ye children of Albion, are not consumed. '

THE

CHRISTIAN LADY'S MAGAZINE.

NOVEMBER, 1845.

WAR WITH THE SAINTS.

CHAPTER XIII.

THE unsparing cruelty of the crusaders, their barbarous massacre, by the most painful and ignominious deaths, of such as were compelled to surrender to them; and the tortures that sometimes, as in the case of the inbitants of Brom, the victims were left to linger under, all combined, with the consciousness of a just and holy cause, to nerve the hands of those who held the strong castle of Termes, a powerful frontier fortress on the borders of Roussillon. This was the next point of attack in the order of march laid down for the great locust army, whose glory it was to turn the comparative Eden of a most lovely and smiling country into a waste howling wilderness, defiled by blood, and deformed by every species of savage outrage. NOVEMBER, 1845.

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Raymond of Termes was a warrior no less brave than Giraud of Minerve; and, warned by the fate of that noble, he proved more inflexible, rejecting every proposal for capitulation, even when the periodical diminution of Simon's army rendered him desirous of obtaining possession on terms really favourable to the besieged. The latter had witnessed too many recent instances of the measure of faith that Rome keeps with those whom she calls heretics, to believe that any thing better than a snare could lurk beneath the fairest proffers of her emissaries. Termes, therefore, held out for four months, baffling every device, repulsing every attack, and rejecting every offer of the enemy. During this period the army underwent the usual mutations: large bodies of men, who had already satiated their cruelty and rapine on Minerve, dispersed from before the walls of Termes, on the expiration of their forty days, to lay upon the idol-shrines of their false worship the blood-stained trophies won in this unholy war. Their places were supplied by others, from the still unexhausted masses of fanaticism in France, from Germany, from England, and many other places where the preaching friars were displaying new zeal, as the success of de Montfort inflated their pride, and raised their hope of ultimately and effectually extinguishing the light of the gospel. Of these new levies, not a few fulfilled their stipulated term of service before the walls, and left them still unbroken; but from every new reinforcement de Montfort swelled his band of permanent followers; men who, from innate love of slaughter, or from greediness to share the spoils of a final conquest, were willing to march under his standard to the end of the war. A war waged by Satan himself against the Lord's heritage; but which de