we must, before all, return to ourselves, reflect soberly, undergo the ^rdvoia of which John the Bap tist, the precursor of Jesus, speaks, when addressing himself to men of clouded judgment. "Repent" (such was his preaching); "repent, have another mind, or you shall all perish. The axe is laid unto the root of the trees. Death and perdition await each one of you. Be warned, turn back, repent." And Jesus declared, " Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish." When Jesus was told of the death of the Galileans massacred by Pilate, he said:--

"Suppose ye that these Galileans ivere sinners above all the Galileans, because then suffered such things? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all like wise perish. Or those eighteen upon whom the tower in Siloamfell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that divelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish." (Luke xiii. 1-5.)

If he had lived in our day, in Russia, he would have said: " Think you that those who perished in the circus at Berditchef or on the slopes of Koukouyef were sinners above all others? I tell you, No; but yon, if you do not repent, if you do not arouse your selves, if you do not find in your life that which is imperishable, you also shall perish. You are horri fied by the death of those crushed by the tower, burned in the circus; but your death, equally as frightful and as inevitable, is here, before you. You are wrong to conceal it or to forget it; unlocked for, it is only more hideous."