even the smallest parts might shed the fra grant perfume of the sanctuary. Neverthe less, do not cultivate a fastidious delicacy towards others, in making requisitions you find it so hard to comply with yourselves. Be content, if, by a living faith, they cleave in sincerity to Christ our Saviour; even if their manners are sometimes rough and unpolished. Remember, though their hands. be those of Esau, you will find their voices and their hearts are still belonging to Jacob.

I think I have never been so fully convinced, as since my visit here, that Christ does, indeed, enable his disciples to become the salt of the earth, and to season whatsoever they come near.

All M. d'Alet's household appear to partake in different degrees of the same spirit. The ecclesiastics who reside with him, are all men of genuine piety. Some of them possess deep learning. These chiefly assist the bishop, in drawing up instructions for his diocese. Others are men of equal excellence, but whose talents rather fit them for the executive part of the business,

Even the very servants breathe the same spirit. They might all be taken by their appearance, to be members of some religious community. Their recollection, silence, humility, obedience, and exactness, is truly edifying. The porter is esteemed a real saint. I have often conversed with him with much profit. It is astonishing how much a fervent faith, not only inspires good affections in the heart, but likewise enlightens and strengthens the natural judgment. It seems impossible to receive the centre of all truths, without, in some measure, participating in the rays which emanate therefrom. All the servants perform their business with wonderful attention.

It is striking, to see the contrast between the hair-cloth and penitential shirt some of them wear, and the spirit of prayer and praise in which they live.

Such is the house of the Bishop of Alêt. Such is that excellent man, whom the great * of this world have treated as the very offscouring of the earth, and that because he refused to sign an iniquitous formulary of

persecution. A formulary which denounces banishment, imprisonment, and death, against the true servants of our Lord Jesus Christ. A formulary, which whilst it has been the means of bestowing the crown of martyrdom on some, has been a stumblingblock to thousands.

M. d'Alêt, M. de Pamiers d'Angers and de Beauvais and your honored house at Port Royal, alike suffer in one common cause, the pretended imputation of Jansenism.

Well may you rejoice at being favored to suffer in the Lord's cause, and that, in company with the most excellent of the earth. For of such assuredly are these great men.

The Bishop of Bellay paid a visit to M. d'Alêt some years ago. I felt great curiosity to hear of a man, so long esteemed the luminary of France for erudition, and her example for piety.* Above all, I longed

* The Bishop of Bellay was both a saint and a wit. A pattern of a holy and a self-denying life himself; he severely chastized the abuses prevalent among some of the religious. He was once called upon to preach a

to know something of a man, who for so many years, was the intimate friend of St. Francis de Sales. This excellent prelate was never received into favor, since his disgrace by Cardinal Richelieu, above twentyseven years ago, for refusing to conceal the disorderly conduct of the religious orders. This ambitious and unprincipled minister, felt it an object to retain his influence over them. Threats and promises were lavished in vain, to induce the bishop to withdraw his accusations. M. de Bellay steadily refused. "Sir," said Richelieu, " had you not refused me this, I could have canonized

you." "Would to God, you had," replied the pious, but acute prelate; "we should then each be possessing our supreme desire!

sermon, in order to raise a subscription for the portion required of a young lady by a rich convent, into which she was about to enter. He accordingly preached a most eloquent discourse; which he concluded in the following words :-" In short, my beloved Brethren, be liberal; and bestow on this young lady that wealth, which is requisite to take the vow of poverty."-Dictionnaire Historique, edit. 1804, à son article.

You would be encircling your brows with the papal tiara on earth; and I should be casting a crown of immortal amaranth at the feet of my adorable Saviour in heaven!"

M. d'Alêt was mentioning an anecdote, which at once proves the influence of the Jesuits, and the inveteracy of the courtprejudices against us. He had it from the Duke of Orleans. Some time ago a gentle. man was proposed to the King as a proper travelling companion to the dauphin. The King (Louis XIV.) mistaking him for another person of the same name, objected to him as being a Jansenist. "Sire," said his informant," he is so far from holding grace and election, that he doubts if there be even a God." "O," returned the King, "that is another affair; I really thought he had been a Jansenist; I have not the least ob. jection!"

The Duke of Orleans was almost convulsed with laughter as he related this specimen of the king's zeal for orthodoxy. To us, may this additional proof of the blindness of the human heart be a fresh call,