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Be Thou any. Guardian and my Guide,
And hear nie when I call;
Let not na.y slippery footsteps slide,
And held me lest I fall.
The world, the flesh, and Satan dwell
Around the path I tread;
0 save nae from the snares of Itel1,
Thou Quickener of the dead.
And if I tempted am to ,ill,
And outward things are stronger,
Do Thou, 0 Lord, keep. watch within,
And save my soul from wren,:
Still let me ever ,watch and prey,
And feel that I arty frail;
That if the temptercross my way,
Yet he may not prl'tail.
This well-known • and bell -nigh
perfect hymn we owe to that impor-
tant religious awaken nig, ccummitly
known as the Oxford' or Tractarian
' movement, Which did even more for
hymnology in the nineteenth century
that did the. Wesleyan nluvenient in
the eighteenth century; r,
The names of John- Keble, author
of ''Sun cif my Soul," New every
morning is the love,"„ "There is a
book who' rens xray read," and many
other well loved hymns','; J. Mason
Neale, who gave us the 'new., Jerusa-
ity College, Oxford, and ran an ex-
ceptionally brilliant course, winning
the prize for Latin verse, and a schol-
arship; but broke down in . his final
examinations through overwork, and
graduated. with only a pass degree, to
the disappointmentof all his. frienTts.
The Rev. John Keble, professor of
poetry at 0 ford, was his very warm
friend andadviser, the Reverend Sir
George .Prevost, a name well-known
in Canada, his brother-in-law, the
brothers Wilberforce, to become.
great figures in religious history,
Hurrell kraucie, Newman's foremost
disciple, were among 'hie intimates.
He was ordained in his twenty-sev-
enth year in 1829, and afterwards won
a valuable fellowship at Oxford, and
according to its terms, returned to
the University as a tutor. There he
contracted an intitnacv with \evvnan,
the future Cardinal, and became his
curate, while he held a rectorate in
the Church of England. 'When the
"Tracts for the Times"—the publica-
tion which set the Oxford movement
agoing—appeared, Mr. Williams was
known as the writer of several, and
by no means of the least ei portant
of those deeply learned and fearlessly
written pamphlets.
Feeling ran high in the controversy
that arose from those within and SALTY INLAND SEA.
lcm hymns, "Jerusalem the - Golden," -without the. Church of .England who
"For thee, 0 dear; dear country," ,were not willing that the national
"Souls of Men, etc." "Christian dose 'church should press its claims to all
Tan ,LNC4 (lila' PERU,
Believed to Be ll? ,wily of the Ancient
Inhabitants.
Tb.a Incas (meaning lords or
chiefs), inhabiting certain galleys
near Cuzco, and believed to be orig-
inally i mi
na y a tribe t tr o• family of the Qu n-
ehu;ts, the ancient lnhabi:ants of
Peru, rose to promiuenwe under the
Inca kings in the thirteen century.
The first Inca was Irtanso Capoe
who calledhimself "Ohitd of the
Sixty," with his -wife, Mama Ocollo, -
he founded the Peruvian royal fam-
ily (about 1240). The pair claimed
to be children of the sun sent from
heaven to instruct the natives. Froni
Maneo Capae, descended twelve other
historical persons, the last reigning
Inca being Ruascar, though tite line-
age was preserved long after. ,
The Government oa' the Incas was a.,
mild form of depottsm. The. Inca
made all the laws and .imposed titre
taxes. The sacredotal othcse were his
also. He presided over all religious..
festvais and sacrifices and was head
no: only of the state but of the priest-
hood as well.
The Incas recognized a supreme .'.
being represented at Cuzco by a stone
statue eov-ered.'with gold. Their be-
lief
e lief was mixed up with sun and fire
worship. Human sacrifltes—if any,
were rare. All the male' descendants
of the Inca formed the nobility and
were the governors of the different
sub -divisions of the country. Lands
and a large portion of goods were
held in common and all classes were
compelled towork for a stipulated
time for the common -welfare of the
people.
After the fall of the Incas (about
1532) most of the Quinehua tribes
submitted to the Spaniards.
thou see ,them," 'Art than weary,'.. that belonged to the Catholic or Lini-
and numbers of other translations and versal Church throughout the world,
S'
' originals; Newman, ri:inembered for on the ground that it was an ancient
his "Lead, Kindly Light, i' and `Praise:branch of it, dating back to Aposi-
to the Highest in the Height,"; Cas -'clic days, as did the Eastern Orth -
wall -who translated and improved St. :odor, and Roman branches. So bitter
Bernard's lines into "Jesu, the very +were they:; against the Tractarians for
thought of Thee," and the equally ;raising the issue, filet when Keble re -
well -known Faber, may be selected ,signed his profes orship ' at Oxford
rten snn.tng many others as proof ,they would not agree that Mr. V il-
-of that statement: lianas should succeed him, though all
Not by any means the least of that aliovi-ed he was his logical and natural
notable band of hymn -writers was successor.
Isaac Williams, who wrote "Be Thou 1 It was a great blow to Isaac Wil -
my Guardian and my Guide," "Lord ;limns, whose many practical writings
in this Thy mercy's day," "Disposer ;and other prose Workshad won nit -
Supreme," "O heavenly Jerusalem," vcrsal praise, and who was eminently
'" 0 Word of. God above," "Lo. from ,well' fitted for the position'. However,
the desert homes," "First of martyrs, kith the quiet meekness that al -ways
thou whose. name,' 'and several other:
hymns, -which are always found in one
or other of the great hymnals of the
aa'n.^ma a e.
Linn the Tractarian should have be-
stowed such a rich endowment of sac-
red song, is rather wonderful, con-
sidering• that its leaders had a dislike
for
the use of any other hymns in
the devine services than those derived
from the inspired Hebrew hymnal
our Saviour was familiar .with, known
to us as '"The .Psalms of David." It,
is said that Isaac Williams, "purpose-
ly made his translations rough in or -
,der to prevent them front being so
:used." . And many of his other hy-
mns are "done into such irregular
metres' that they are not easily a-
vailable for congregational use. The
curiously irregular metre of "Lead
kindly Light," xnay be cited to show
Newmans feelings in this matter in
his earlier days, as the lines of many
Keble's poems in "'The .Christian
Year," give evidence' of a similiar feel-
ing on his part.
Isaac Williams was the son of a
Chancery lawyer at Lincoln's Inn,:
London; Eng. He received :so sound
a training in Latin in a preparatory
private school before proceeding to
the great publicschool of Harrow,
that for some years he thought in
that language and had to translate
,his ideas into English.
He was afterwards entered at Trin-,
distinguished 'him, he retired to his
;curacy at 1',asley, and afterwards at
iStinchcombe, where he produced a
.most valuable stream of devotional,'
eoetieal, and historical b,:,t,1;;, until
icunsumetiun became, the v-ehicli • for
closin, his life on earth, in 1865: He
had been born in 1802.
Our hymn "Be Thou my Guardian,
etc.' appeared in 1842 in a little vol-
ume of "poetry entitled. "Hytons nn
the Catechism' intended to help
young people to apprehend the chur-
ch's teaching, and was based on the
petition in the Lord's prayer:. `:end
load' us not into temptation..' It was
written in plural form in four 4 -line'
verses, -ts "Be Thou our Guardian and
r,ur Gide," and has deservedly ivon
its way into nearly every hymnal in
the language. The tune Abridge was
v ritten by Isaac Smith, who died in
1800, two years before Isaac- Williams
was born. and belonged to the great
company of musicians, * f whom the
famous Handel was one, who com-
posed tunes for the hyalins written
for the Methodist revival of religion
in the eighteenth century.
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DESIRABLE ANNUAL FLOWER-
ING PLANTS. n.
(Exnerimeatai Fatties Note)
Annual flowering plants should bt
employed more largely Than they now
are to inppiove homesurroundings
and supply cat flowers for inside de-
'oratant, They are easy of culture
and will do well in aiutost any..,gar-
den soil. With few 'exceptions they;
may be seeded to the open ground iii
that early spring as soon as the groued
can be prepared. - If a good stand re-
sults thinning to .about six. inches a-
part should be .done. .'
If started under glass or in •a hot-
bed in order to get earlier bloom, the
seed is sown in rows in shallow boxes.
generally termed flats, When the
plants are sufficiently advanced they -
arc transplanted to other fiats. In
A Baking Expert says:
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these they are spaced two inches a-
part, so that a section of soil may
be cut out-vs-ith each plant when
transplanting to the fieid, and little
,check in growth result. Or the seed
may be sown - thinly in flats - and the
plants set to the open ground when
fairly well developed, without the ne
cessity of transplanting into other
.flats.
There are many varieties listed un-
der the various kinds, and unless for;
special. worse ,nixed sorts are advised.'
From time to time many of the var-
ieties offered have been tested at the
Experimental Station, Kentville; and
it is largely a matter of choice on, the
part of the' individual as to what may
be considered the best. -
Group planting in borders or at the
base of shrubbery, rather than form-.
al bedding, is advised, as requiring
less work and usually giving a more
l.leasing effect, Those sorts suitable;
for cut flowers should also be planted
in rows in . the back garden, so that
an ample supply for this purpose may
be available.
For edging, Sweet Alyssum Little
Dorrit, anti Candytuft (white; Tag
cies signets pumila (yellow); and Lo-
belia Crystal Palace Gem, and Dwarf
Ageratum Blue Star (bine) are very
'satisfactory. Of the er erlastings I•Iel-
iehsysum (Strawflovver), Aeroclin-
item, Globe Amaranth (Gompltrena),
and Statice are the best.
For cut flowere as well as for gen-
eral plaiting the Snapdragon (Antirr-
hinum) is one of the 'best. It is us-
ually started inside. There are many
kinds, and the sorts intermediate in
height are prr.,bably the most satis-
factory. the annual single Chrysan-
thennm and the double variety Bridal
Robe are both. gond. They are us
Bally started inside,, Coreop.sis )ruin-
nxondii and C. tinctoria are two of
the best; these, may be seeded out-
side. Cosmos should be more exten-
sively grown, and the plants should
be started inside. The annual ,lark-
spur may be seeded outside, as- well
as Gypsophila, Gaillarclia, Lavatera,
Scabious, Sweet Sultan, Bachelor's
Button, Shirley or other poppies,
Sehizanthus, Nemesia, Nigella, Sun-
flowers in variety, .Mignonette, Nee-
tartium, Swan River Daisy, African
Daisy (.Dinaorphotheca), Calendula,
China and Indian Pinks (Dianthus),
Lupine, Eechschoitzia, and Salpiglos-
sis, The tender annuals, Such as Bel -
,stun and Zinnia had better be start-
ed inside and planted out after dan-
ger from frost is past. Phlox Drum-
nxondii, Petunia, - Verbena, Nicotiana
affinis; and , Ten -weeks - Stock should
also be started .inside. The Sweet
Pea, sonm outside as early as possible,
should be included in all plantings of
annuals. Because of the disease that
attacks the aster we have not men-
tioned` this exceptionally fine flower..
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