admit him. He is concerned to find the meaning of Christ's teaching. This that S. Paul says is fundamental is his rule of life: "Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."

Of one that is so fayr and bright
Velut maris stella,

Brighter than the day is light,
Parens et puella;

I crie to thee, thou see to me,
Levedy, preye thi Sone for me,
Tam pia,

That I mote come to thee

Maria.

Al this world was for-lore
Eva peccatrice,

Tyl our Lord was y-bore

De te genetrice.

With Ave it went away

Thuster nyth and comz the day

Salutis;

The welle springeth ut of the,

Virtutis.

Levedy, flour of alle thing,

Rosa sine spina,

Thu bere Jhesu, hevene king,

Gratia divina;

Of alle thu ber'st the pris,

Levedy, quene of paradys

Electa:

Mayde milde, moder es

Effecta.

PART TWO

CHAPTER XV

WHO IS MY MOTHER?

Whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

S. Matt. XII, 50.

Grant, we beseech thee, almighty God, that we may keep with an immaculate heart the sacrament which we have received in honour of the blessed virgin mother Mary.; so that we who celebrate her feast now, may be found worthy when we have left this life to pass into her company. Through &c. SARUM MISSAL.

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UR Blessed Lord had begun his ministry of preaching. The mark of the early days of that preaching was success. Crowds came about Him wherever He taught. The fact that there were frequent miracles of healing no doubt added to the popularity that He achieved. It was largely the popularity of a new and strange movement, of a preaching cutting across the normal roads of instruction to which the Jewish people were accustomed. There was a fascination about its form, its picturesque way of conveying its meaning, its use of the parable drawn from the everyday circumstances of life. There was nothing of hesitation in the words of the new Preacher, but the ring of a dogmatic certainty. "He taught as one having authority, and not as the scribes." He pushed aside the rulings of the traditional teaching with His, "Ye have heard it said . . . but I say.' "Verily, verily, I say unto you." And yet there are people who tell us that there was nothing dogmatic about our Lord and His teaching! One would infer from much that is written upon the subject of our Lord's teaching that He was a very mild giver of good advice but evidently the Scribes and Pharisees did not think so. They saw in Him a man who was setting himself to undermine their whole authority.

This popularity was at a high point when an interesting event happened of which we have an account