words abiding in our hearts as the rule and guide of our conduct in festive hours, we shall taste of the joy which is one of the fruits of the spirit of God, and there will be no fear of our "coming together for the worse."

There is a great movement going on now in England in favour of so-called temperance, meaning really, abstinence from intoxicating drink of all kinds. Doubtless this agitation has been productive of good in many ways, as is anything which will check the frightful evils resulting from the spirit of intemperance which is abroad in the world; but it almost seems to me that, in acknowledging the necessity for such a movement, we are casting a slight on the Holy Name which as Christians we bear.

If those who "name the Name of Christ" must "depart from iniquity," surely those who are members of His Body, who are the

temples of His indwelling Spirit—moreover, whose souls are "fed" by Him, and who therefore have His very Life abiding in them, cannot fail to be "temperate in all things."

The less is surely swallowed up of the greater. If love to Christ be indeed the guiding principle of the heart, so that we can participate in no feast where He is not, the rest will surely follow, charity, meekness, temperance-all things "against which there is no law."

It seems, therefore, to me, that if the Banner of Christ were held on high, and carried bravely among the lowest and most debased masses of the people, we might safely trust in the power of His Name to overcome the spirit of evil with whom excess and riot" are such powerful weapons. Temperance, or rather abstinence from excess in drink, will not of itself win men to Christ, but the souls that are won to

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believe in, and to love Him, He will guard safely, and will raise and purify them by the "beauty" of His "Holiness," so that the temptations of the flesh cannot reach them, and that "wicked one" toucheth them not. Bring these poor degraded beings to Him, and He will surely keep His own.

"Whatsoever He saith unto you, do it."

These words contain a golden rule for our conduct in every circumstance of our lives, and they may well stand as a text for our meditations on the Eucharistic Feast.

This is a subject too vast and too sacred to be more than touched upon, here. I may only venture, with feelings of deep reverence and awe, to suggest a few very simple, plain thoughts, which may harmonize with the services of the day.

When we love any one very dearly, the longing of our hearts is to do something to show our love, to prove to him the depth

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and reality of our affection. We feel that it does not content us to express our devotion in words alone, but that we must testify to its earnestness by some outward act.

Our dear Lord showed His sympathy with this longing of the human heart when He said to St. Peter, "Lovest thou ME? . . . Feed My sheep," and when He bequeathed to His faithful people a simple act of faith and love, which they might "do in remembrance" of Him.

If we love Him, we must do as He says. If we love Him, we cannot keep away when He calls us to come.

It is not for us to ask, as did the Jews of old, “How can this Man give us His flesh to eat?"

"The Lord Jesus the same night that He was betrayed took bread: and when He had given thanks, He brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is My Body, which

is broken for you: this do in remembrance of ME.

"After the same manner also He took the cup, when He had supped, saying, This cup is the New Testament in My Blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of ME."

So simple is the record of so awful and sublime a moment !

Such a simple act, but so tremendous the gift bestowed, even the very Life of Christ to dwell in us; His constant Presence with us here on earth, as a foretaste of the Beatific Vision which He will grant to us hereafter.

The joys of our Eucharistic Feast must indeed transcend all other joys which our human hearts can feel on earth. In it we have the joy of sins forgiven, washed away by the most Precious Blood of the "Lamb that was slain;" the joy of hearts full of