a violent inflammation in the stomach. In this tion his courage did not forsake him; his last

being employed in conversing with his friends n the happiness reserved for good men in the are life. Then, quietly, after thrice repeating: Tuto Thy hands I commend my spirit. Thou hast deemed me, thou God of Truth; surely God hath

› loved the world," he entered into his rest in the xty-third year of his life.

"No man," writes Archdeacon Hare, in reference to Luther, "ever lived whose whole heart, and soul, and life have been laid bare, as his have been, to the eyes of mankind. Open as the sky, bold and fearless as the storm, he gave utterance to all his feelings, all his thoughts. He knew nothing of reserve; and the impression he produced on his hearers and friends was such, that they were anxious to treasure up every word that proceeded from his pen, or from his lips. No man, therefore, has ever been exposed to so severe a trial. Perhaps no man was ever placed in such difficult circumstances, or assailed by such manifold temptations. And how has he come out of the trial? Through the power of faith, under the guardian care of his Heavenly Master, he was enabled to stand through life, and still he stands, and will continue to stand, firmly rooted in the love of all who really know him."

SIR THOMAS MORE'S INTERVIEW WITH HENRY VIII.

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T the period of which we write, “it was the custom," says Sir James Mackintosh," that young gentlemen should pass part of their boyhood in the house and service of their superiors, where they might profit by listening to the conversation of men of experience, and gradually acquire the manners of the world. It was not deemed derogatory from youths of rank, it was rather thought a beneficial expedient for inuring them to stern discipline and implicit obedience, that they should be trained during this noviciate, in humble and even menial offices. A young gentleman thought himself no more lowered by serving as a page in the family of a great peer or prelate, than a Courtenay or a Howard considered it as a degradation to be the huntsman or the cup-bearer of a Tudor." The father of Thomas More made a wise selection when he placed his son in the household of Cardinal Morton, one of the king's most able and trusted ministers, and whose personal virtues secured More's respect and admiration through life. Very early, also, was the Cardinal impressed with his young charge, frequently remarking to the nobles, when dining with him, "This child, here waiting at the