The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ... . emption there ? Has Paulno missionary zeal and no heart of pity for the and the Corinths that darken and pollute theeternal spaces? Has Loyola lost his ambition to bringthe heathen hearts to the knowledge of Jesus ? Willnot the thousands of the merciful who have found ittheir joy here to collect the outcasts under healthierinfluence, to kindle the darkened mind, to clothe theshivering f
The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ... . emption there ? Has Paulno missionary zeal and no heart of pity for the and the Corinths that darken and pollute theeternal spaces? Has Loyola lost his ambition to bringthe heathen hearts to the knowledge of Jesus ? Willnot the thousands of the merciful who have found ittheir joy here to collect the outcasts under healthierinfluence, to kindle the darkened mind, to clothe theshivering forms of destitution, to carry comfort to sickbeds, and cheer into desolate homes—will not the di-vine brothers and sisters of charity, who are the gloryof this life, find some call and some exercise for theirChristlike sympathy in that world—in that world whichis colonized by millions of the heathen and the unfort-unate, the sin-sick, the polluted, and the ignorant,every year? Oh, doubt not, brethren, that the highestin Heaven are the helpers, the spirits of charity, theglorified Samaritans who penetrate into all the abyssesof evil with their aid and their hope.—Christianity Vol. XV.—J KINGLAKE, Alexander William, an Englishhistorian, born at Wilton House, near Taunton,August 5, 1809; died January 2, 1891. He waseducated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cam-bridge, where he took his degree in 1832, andwas called to the bar in 1837. Soon after he madea tour in European Turkey, Asia Minor, Syria,and Egypt. Letters which he wrote to his friendswere, several years later, in 1844, published underthe title of Eothen ( From the East). On his re-turn from the East he entered upon practice inLondon as a chancery lawyer. In 1857 he wasreturned to Parliament, in the Liberal interest, forthe borough of Bridge water; and again in 1868,but was unseated on petition. Besides Eothen hisonly notable work is the History of the Invasion ofthe Crimea (1863-88). He was a promine
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