he back of my father? If my father
hath laid on you a heavy burden, I shall add and put more to your
burden; my father beat you with scourges, and I shall beat you with
scorpions. The third day after, Jeroboam and all the people came to
Rehoboam to have their answer, and Rehoboam left the counsel of the old
men, and said to them like as the young men had counselled him. And anon
the people of Israel forsook Rehoboam, and of twelve tribes, there abode
with him no more but the tribe of Judah and Benjamin. And the other ten
tribes departed and made Jeroboam their king, and never returned unto
the house of David after unto this day. And thus for sin of Solomon, and
because Rehoboam would not do after the counsel of the old men, but was
counselled by young men, the ten tribes of Israel forsook him, and
departed from Jerusalem, and served Jeroboam, and ordained him king upon
Israel. Anon after this, Jeroboam fell to idolatry and great division
was ever after between the kings of Judah and the kings of Israel. And
so reigned divers kings each after other in Jerusalem after Rehoboam,
and in Israel after Jeroboam. And here I leave all the history and make
an end of the book of Kings for this time, etc. For ye that list to know
how every king reigned after other, ye may find it in the first chapter
of Saint Matthew which is read on Christmas day in the morning before Te
Deum, which is the genealogy of our Lady.

A LITTLE MAID

BY THEODORE T. MUNGER

[From "Lamps and Paths," by courtesy of Houghton, Mifflin & Co.]

In old days we read of angels who came and took men by the hand, and led
them away from the city of Destruction. We see no white-robed angels
now; yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put
into theirs, and they are gently guided toward a bright and calm land,
so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be that of a little
child.--GEORGE ELIOT

As aromatic plants bestow
No spicy fragrance while they grow,
But crushed, or trodden to the ground,
Diffuse their balmy sweets around.

--GOLDSMITH: _The Captivity_

_"Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man
with his master, and honorable, because by him the Lord had given
deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valor, but he was a
leper. And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away
captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on
Naaman's wife. And she s