As he gazes he knows himself in communion with what he seessometimes that communion is a great joy and sometimes a great sadness.

The communion of saints is not a bygone tale, for my saints, redeemed from every age and every nation under heaven, still live, and love, and help and intercede.

He does not say, as some do, that the Communion is merely a remembrance of Christ's death.

Communion with nature is in Wordsworth's doctrine the school of duty.

Thisthis communion with God, is the especial glory of Abraham's character.

Next, that the Puritan communions, the Kirk of Scotland and the English Nonconformists, as they are becoming more cultivatedand there are now many highly-cultivated men among themare introducing Gothic architecture more and more into their churches.

Believe that wherever two or three are gathered together in Christ's name, there He is in the midst of them; that the holy communion is the sign of His perpetual presence; and that when you kneel to receive the bread and wine, Christ is as near youspiritually, indeed, and invisibly, but really and trulyas near you as those who are kneeling by your side.

By the time the week of retreat arrived, interest and mystery had been frothed to the point of indiscretion; so that the little girls would stand on tiptoe to peep through the shutters at the postulants inside, and even the larger girls, to whom first communion was a thing of an infantile past, would condescend to listen to their reports with ill-feigned indifference.

It was, indeed, an intercourse peculiarly beneficial to Cadurcis, whose career had hitherto tended rather to the development of the power, than the refinement of his genius; and to whom an active communion with an equal spirit of a more matured intelligence was an incident rather to be desired than expected.

Communion with Him is such a blessing, here at home in my own room, and out in the silent woods and on the wayside.