The conversion of sums from one coinage to another, many of them of unstable value, must have been an everlasting trouble.

But the social condition of these subjects was gradually made so oppressive by the Mohammedan masters, that rapid conversions in masses were a natural consequence; the more natural because among the conquered nations intellectual culture was restricted to a small circle, so that after the conquest their spiritual leaders lacked freedom of movement.

The conversion of a wilderness into a desirable residence for man, is an object which no intelligent spectator can behold, without being strongly interested in such a combination of enterprise, patience, and perseverance.

But, granting that the conversion of sensitive into insensitive matter (and of course vice versa) is a mere change of "form," and therefore of no "consequence"; granting this, we cannot escape the including under this rule all similar cases.

The conversion of Boris in 865, which was brought about largely by the influence of his sister, who had spent many years in Constantinople as a captive, was a triumph for Greek influence and for Byzantium.

Finally the conversion of slaves into freemen by a sweeping emancipation was a project which met little endorsement except among those who ignored the racial and cultural complications.

This re-conversion of the nation's ploughshares and pruning hooks is a noisy affair, isn't it?"

Conversion is the outlook over a world which is arranged, not for our own glory, but for the good of God's creatures; in which what we do is necessary, fundamental, permanentnot because we ourselves have done it well, nor, in truth, because we have done it at allbut because what we have done is a part of the universe which God is building.

The miracle rests on the authority of a single bishop, as sacredly attested by the emperor, in whom he saw no fault; but the fact of the conversion remains as one of the most signal triumphs of Christianity, and the conversion itself was the most noted and important in its results since that of Saul of Tarsus.

His conversion will indeed be a singular proof of the omnipotence of Grace; and the more singular, the more decided.'

The perfect sincerity with which he traced his religious history, showing that his conversion was only the final step in a course he had been following since boyhood, silenced his critics and revolutionized public opinion concerning himself and the church which he had joined.

The people spend four-and-a-half fifths of their time arguing about politics and religion,questions of the latter being chiefly as to the best method of being baptized, or whether sudden conversions are the safest,but they never take a step forward in either.

It will be noted that the conversion of results obtained by the use of one series of test-weights into what would have been given by another series, is a piece of simple arithmetic, the fact ultimately obtained by any apparatus of this kind being the "just distinguishable" fraction of real weight.

Conversion, therefore, I hold, is no remedy whatsoever.

We must at least recognize that conversion is a scientific process, as much as digestion is, or respiration; it is not a purely emotional occurrence.

It will be noted that the conversion of results obtained by the use of one series of test-weights into what would have been given by another series, is a piece of simple arithmetic, the fact ultimately obtained by any apparatus of this kind being the "just distinguishable" fraction of real weight.

Hence learn that true conversion is not so slight a work as we commonly account it.

The conversion of its editor to the temperance cause is the reason of the recent change in its tenets.

Ehnamani, pastor of the Santee churcha fine old man, whose history in connection with the Minnesota massacre of '62, and whose conversion and present work are well knownwas once asked, "Do you ever have the least regret that the old life is gonedo you ever have any longing for the war and for the dance?"

His retirement to solitude and meditation at Littlemore had been outrageously misunderstood, and it was openly charged that his conversion was a cunningly devised plot to win a large number of his followers to the Catholic church.

Then the conversion of Paul was a powerful argument.

But of the two, certainly his son's conversion was the worst in his eyes.