ENDS AND RELATIONS! AT
LENGTH THEY SPARKLE IN HEAVEN. HE HAS SCARCELY LIVED WHO HAS LIVED
IN CHRISTIAN TIMES.

"This," said Honorius, "is the resting place of a well loved brother,
whose memory is still cherished in all the Churches. Around this tomb we
shall hold the 'Agape' upon the anniversary of his birthday. At this
feast the barriers of different classes and ranks, of different kindreds
and tribes and tongues and peoples, are all broken down. We are all
brethren in Christ Jesus, for we remember that as Christ loved us, so
ought we also to love one another."

In this walk Marcellus had ample opportunity to witness the presence of
that fraternal love to which Honorius alluded. He encountered men,
women, and children of every rank and of every age. Men who had filled
the highest stations in Rome associated in friendly intercourse with
those who were scarcely above the level of slaves; those who had once
been cruel and relentless persecutors, now associated in pleasant union
with the former objects of their hate. The Jewish priest, released from
the fetters of bigotry and stubborn pride, walked hand in hand with the
once hated Gentile. The Greek had beheld the foolishness of the Gospel
transformed into infinite wisdom, and the contempt which he had once
felt for the followers of Jesus had given place to tender affection.
Selfishness and ambition, haughtiness and envy, all the baser passions
of human life, seemed to have fled before the almighty power of
Christian love. The religion of Christ dwelt in their hearts in all its
fullness, and its blessed influences were seen here as they might not be
witnessed elsewhere; not because its nature or its power had been
changed for their sakes, but because the universal persecution which
pressed on all alike had robbed them of earthly possessions, cut them
off from earthly temptations, and by the great sympathy of common
suffering had forced them closer to one another.

"The worship of the true God," said Honorius, "differs in one respect
from all false worship. The heathen must enter into his temple, and
there through the medium of the priest offer up his prayers and his
sacrifice. But for us Christ has made a sacrifice once for all. Every
one of his followers can now approach God for himself, for each one is
made, through Jesus, a king and a priest unto God. To us, then, it is a
matter of no moment, as far as worship is concerned, whether our chapels
are left unto