Autumn sunshine before him. It is John, Bishop of Persepolis, who proclaims the tidings of the Consubstantial to Persia.

Who is this that, on a glorious autumn evening, passes the northeastern African headland, runs into the long bay of Carthage, sees the sun go down behind the sandhills, - which he fires into the hue of molten iron and the palm-trees wave softly in the breeze; that passes the ruined temples of the rival of Rome, and goes forth into the oases of the great African desert? It is Cæcilian, Metropolitan of Carthage.

Who is this that lands in the busy port of Carcinone, and sees the glorious sunset on the Orospedan range? Who proclaims the Consubstantial in the churches of Toledo, and skirts the bank of the gold-bearing Tagus? Who lingers in the lovely vales of Gallaecia, that earthly paradise, when the pendant grapes festoon the roads, and the fire-flies dart from the hedges, and the luscious oranges hand amidst their snowy blossoms, and myrtle and olive and heliotrope perfume the air? It is Hosius, Bishop of Cordova.

Who lands at busy Massilía, and hears the Greek of Athens; ascends the Rhone to his bridal meeting with the Arar; proclaims the faith in regal Lugdunum; preaches to the half-civilized Sequani and Lingares; tells of the Consubstantial in Lutetia and along the banks of the Sequana; skirts the coast of the British ocean to Bononia; ventures, inspired by the love of Christ, to cross it to the Portus Lemanianus, along the Watling Way to Londinium, by the Ermine street to Durolipons, thence by the Via Devana to Mediolanum and distant Deva? Gorgeous sunsets he saw across the ocean of Rutunian forests, purple loveliness round the Welsh ridges; and everywhere he taught that Christ was coequal and co-eternal with the Father, and preached the faith of Nicæa. It is Vitus, Roman legate.

Who is this in the snow-sailed cercuous that darts from island to island of the blue Egean, to the cove beautiful with its fishing village, and ruined temple, and rising church; to the vineyard, to the maize-field, to the cornland, to the shelly beach, to the broad white tracts of

sand? who that rambles through groves once dedicated to the worship of idols, now, with the "sound of the going" in their summits, singing anthems to the one true God? Delian Appollo, Chian Aphrodite, Methymnoan Zeus, Lesbian Dionysus, in the ground once sacred to you, Alexander of Byzantium preaches the Consubstantial.

And lastly, who is this that is drawing near the scene of man's redemption? Libanus with its cedars makes a bed for the last rays of the sun; Mount Carmel, breasting the Mediterranean, marks his base with snowy foam for many a mile; the hills of Ebal and Gerizim are silent in the noontide glare; now the City of Palm-trees is passed; now, rising on the horizon Mount Moriah is the pilgrim's goal; now he passes the excavation where the Saviour of the world was crucified, and where they hope to find His cross; and now he enters the Judicial Gate, and follows the Via Dolorosa to the centre of the city. It is Macarius of Jerusalem.

Thus, as soon as the Fathers of the Council ceased speaking, "their sounds went out into all lands, and their works unto the ends of the world."- The Quay of the Dioscuri.

EANDER, JOHANN AUGUST WILHELM, a German theologian and historian; born at Göttingen, January 16, 1789; died at Berlin, July 14, 1850. His parents were Hebrews, in humble circumstances, and his original name was David Mendel. Soon after his birth, his parents went to Hamburg, where they had friends, by whose aid the boy was enabled to study at the institution styled "the Johanneum," where his personal peculiarities caused no little ridicule; but those who came to know

In 1811 he

him recognized in him a youth of high promise. At the age of seventeen he renounced Judaism, and was publicly baptized as a Christian, as Johann August Wilhelm Neander, names which he took from several of his friends, among whom was Wilhelm Neumann, whose name he simply translated into Greek (Neos, "New," and Andros, "Man"), so that Neander, which is simply "Newman," came to be the name by which he was to be known. began to lecture upon theology at Heidelberg, and in the following year was called to the newly founded University of Berlin as Professor of Church History. His lectures-partly in spite of, and perhaps somewhat in consequence of, his personal eccentricities were for many years a marked feature in the university. He lectured upon nearly every branch of exegetical and systematic theology, the historical element everywhere predominating. His various works (of which a uniform edition was completed in 1866, in 13 volumes) are essentially a reproduction of his prelections. His General History of the Christian Religion down to the Council of Basel appeared in separate volumes between 1825 and 1852, and has been admirably translated by Professor Joseph Torrey, of the University of Vermont. Other works of Neander are Julian the Apostate (1812); St. Bernard (1813); Gnosticism (1818); St. Chrysostom (1822); Tertullian (1825); History of the Apostolic Age (1833); Life of Jesus Christ (1837); Christian Life (1840). After his death were published History of Christian Doctrine (1857) and The Epistles to the Corinthians (1859).