astical duties; so that his sister Bridget, known in
religion as Sister St. John of the Cross, complained a good deal of his
want of charity in not having visited her but once in seven years. "Ad
majorem Dei gloriam,"--"To the greater glory of God,"--was this pious
Levite's motto; and he was dead to all the ties of flesh and blood, and
heedless of all calls save those of charity to his God and his neighbor.

In the pulpit, the spontaneous eloquence of his heart chained the
attention of his hearers; and his discourses, though rather inclined to
asceticism than controversial, went to the hearts, and convinced the
understandings, of unbelievers of the divinity of the doctrine he
preached. No class of his fellow-creatures was excluded from the
influence of his boundless zeal. Protestants--to whom he was very mild,
on account of his knowledge of the ignorant prejudices in which they are
bound by the malice of their teachers--heard him, and became converts to
the church of God. Even the neglected negro race claimed and received a
full measure of his zeal. He established a school for the children of
these neglected sons of Africa, and never lost an opportunity of
visiting them at the death bed or in the hour of serious sickness.

It was on occasion of one of these visits that God rewarded his priest,
even in this world, by the joyous disclosure which we here record, and
which, next to his grace of vocation to the priesthood, of all the
manifestations of God's mercy to him, claimed his sincerest gratitude
and thanksgiving. After the end of the grand "birthday banquet," which
lasted for a day and two nights, Alia's position at the palace became
more disagreeable than ever. The young girls frowned on her and shunned
her society, and Madame Goldrich, after she had got over the fatigue of
the party, read her a smart lesson on her "ill manners and Irish
temper," because she dared to absent herself, to the disappointment of
the guests, from a table at which she was denied her proper and usual
place. "Alia, this conduct of yours must be reformed, and that quick, or
your separation from this family, to which you do not belong, must soon
take place. I ain't goin' to let you take precedence of my children no
longer."

To this vulgar speech of the "princess, our hostess," as she was
flatteringly toasted by a John Bull guest who was there, Alia answered
not a word, but, having retired to her room, fell on her knees and
prayed long and fe