Oh, speak those words, those saving words of power, In this most pregnant, this supremest hour, Words writ in martyr blood, as all may see!

"Come on," said he, burning with the zeal of a martyr-burner, "I'll show you the ground.

Grief tried his love, and pain; And the long bondage of his martyr-chain Vexed his sweet soul,in vain!

But over these poor martyr-children watched the love of God, and lulled them to sleep with happy dreams and gentle fancies about their distant homes, their little sister there, or the beautiful garden in which they had so often chased butterflies together.

Whatever may be the religion he professes, the apostle inspires esteem, and the martyr compassion.

It nevertheless is pertinent to add, that the recent history of Mormonism, compared with that of Christianity and of Manichæism, may suggest that the martyr-death of the founder of a religion is a positive aid to its after-success.

When I congratulated Mrs. Duncan on her son's engagement to such a sweet, bright girl as my cousin, she assumed a martyr expression and said, "She hoped he would be happy, even if her own heart must suffer the pain of losing an only son.

Here in God's name we stand, and brighter far Shines the stern virtue of my martyr-host Through these invidious fortunes, than of old, When the still sunshine glinted on their helms, And dallying breezes woke their bridle-bells To tinkling music by the reedy shore Of calm Tiberias, where our angry Lord, Wroth at the deadly sin that cursed our camp, Denied and blinded us, and gave us up To the avenging sword of Saladin.

We have had no name to add to the foreign missionary martyr list, from the region of Amoy.

She would have died without hesitation, or lived in torment, for those she loved; but she would have done it in the finest, most matter-of-fact way in the world, and without a gleam of self-conscious heroics, whether of boasting or of martyr-meekness or of any other device for signaling attention to oneself.

The discipline would certainly be severeshe did not dream at the moment how severe!but this fine, consistent little Christian saw it plain; she accepted it, too, without any sighing of the martyr, though the courage she showed was of the martyr order.

He has his fame; But that mad dash at death, how name? Had Earth no charm to stay the Boy From the martyr-passion?

We must stand by those martyr peoples who have stood by the great forces of the world.

Believe me, gentlemen, that my country and its exiled martyr sons are highly worthy of your generous sympathy, though some few of the number do not always act as they should.

If ever there were a martyr spirit, it was enshrined in that young, frail form.

Henry Neele, the "martyr-student," inviting us to share in the intense admiration of intellect; forcibly demonstrating "that song is but the eloquence of truth"but of him no more!

And it applies closely, I am sure, in the consolations it suggests; that "He who willed her tender frame Should rear the martyr's robe of flame," has prepared for her a garland in Heaven, "Tinged faintly with such golden light As crowns His martyr train.

He happened upon "Progress and Poverty" just then, and some casual numbers of the "Commonweal," and it was only too easy to accept the theory of cunning plotting capitalists and landowners, and faultless, righteous, martyr workers.