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'The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart. The Psalms. In 1596, at one of the many conferences which he held with the Commissioners of the Church on the business with which our last chapter was concerned, the King disclosed a new policy.

It was Wednesday evening; the psalms were then apportioned to the days of the week, not of the month, and the first this night was the one hundred and twenty-seventh: Except the Lord build the house, their labour is but vain that build it. Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman watcheth but in vain.

Leslie always liked them to say over the text and the psalms and hymns they had heard, and this was looked forward to by the youngsters as quite a pleasant exercise. But we must go on with the story.

Another poet had presently the opportunity to "embalm his memory in some congenial verses," and wrote an epitaph, and ended with a full description of "His care to guide his flock and feed his lambs, By words, works, prayers, psalms, alms and anagrams."

The results of their labours were submitted to the Sacred Congregation of Rites, and after careful consideration by the members of the Congregation the matter was submitted to the Pope, who sanctioned the new arrangement, that is, as regards the order and the division of the Psalms, Antiphons, Versicles and Hymns, with the rubrics and rules pertaining to the same.

But he was thus enabled to propound, while explaining the Psalms, the fundamental principles of that doctrine of salvation which for some years past had taken such hold on his inmost thoughts and so engrossed his theological studies. And in addition to the fruits of his researches in Scripture, especially in the writings of St. Paul, we observe the use he made of the works of St. Augustine.

Just now, I was in too much pain to think of any thing: but I am easy enough to think, and speak, and listen, at present. Have you a Bible with you?" Charles instantly produced his Bible, and asked his friend what he should read. "The forty-second and forty-third Psalms first," said Monteath.

Psalms abound, Virgin, and saints are barely mentioned, a certain universalism and concentration of thought upon the Redemption and its speculative meaning pervades the Latin ritual sung behind the altar-rails.

These were the compositions that presently inspired the landscapes of Paul and Virginia , of Atala and René , and of Obermann , as well as those punier imitators who resemble their masters as the hymns of a methodist negro resemble the psalms of David.

The best grafts in the world are built up on copy-book maxims and psalms and proverbs and Esau's fables. They seem to kind of hit off human nature. Our peaceful little swindle was constructed on the old saying: "The whole push loves a lover." One evening Buck and Miss Malloy drives up like blazes in a buggy to a farmer's door.