ice,
The boon of pardoned guilt, for blood of goats
Or bullocks, without blemish);--and bowed,
While yet the echoes of his voice, profane,
Still quivered in the midnight air,--floating
Upward toward the Great White Throne,--crying,
O,--crucify the spotless Son of Man,
And let Barabbas, son of sin, go free.

V.

Where direst portents, solitude profound,--
Place, awful with the bleaching types of death,
Had published forth Golgotha's cruel name.
The stately High Priest, from the "Holy Place"
Approached, to consummate prophetic crime,--
To fill the measure of Judea's sin,--
And bring Messiah to a dying race.

VI.

"IT IS FINISHED."

VII.

O,--light of day, whose now averted face,
As ne'er before, withholds thy cheer from man!--
O,--quaking earth, whose bed of solid rock,
Is shivered by some pang of awful ill!--
O,--graves, once sealed o'er loved ones, laid aside,
To answer only at Archangels' call!--
What tragedy of creation's Master;--
What spell upon creation's normal peace;--
What overturn of laws immutable;--
What contradictions in the mind Supreme;
Have wrought this pregnant ruin,--earth throughout!

VIII.

O,--priest, whose ministrations, laid aside
To bring fulfillment of the fearful curse
Upon thy race, have now that curse assured,--
Look back!--and see the altar, bared to view
Of vulgar herd and phrenzied populace.
"_The veil in twain is rent_,"--and never more
Shall dread Shekinah show Himself to thee;--
But where each humble soul, with sin oppressed,
Lifts up the cry of penitential grief,
A temple shall be found,--and deep within,
Shall dwell that sacred Presence,--evermore.

* * * * *

THE FIRST SCHOOLMASTER OF BOSTON.

By Elizabeth Porter Gould.

When Agassiz requested to go down the ages with no other name than
"Teacher," he not only appropriately crowned his own life-work, but
stamped the vocation of teaching with a royalty which can never be
gainsaid. By this act he dignified with lasting honor all those to whom
the name "Teacher," in its truest meaning, can be applied.

In this work of teaching, one man stands out in the history of New
England who should be better known to the present generation. He was a
benefactor in the colonial days when education was striving to keep her
lamp burning in the midst of the necessary practical work which engaged
the attenti