We are informed by the Scripture that when a successor to Judas in the apostolate was to be chosen, the lot fell on St. Mathias.

It is further related, that whereas the apostles experienced considerable difficulty in complying with the other instructions of their master, and sometimes actually failed therein, the prohibition to work miracles was never once transgressed by any of them, save only the pious Ananda, the history of whose first year's apostolate is recorded as follows.

And here we may inquire parenthetically as to the motive which urges Mr. Laing to throw himself into the labours of the apostolate and to become such an active propagandist of agnosticism.

The task of PETER'S apostolate is accomplishedthe Churches are founded in the Christian world.

The task of PAUL'S apostolate is accomplishedthe abuses of fanaticism and intolerance are redressed.

The religion of charity wants your apostolate, and requires your aid.

In the general oppression, their apostolate behind closed doors took on the appearance of a little early-Christian group in the catacombs.

Whether sending presents to gladden his Prussian pupil, or sending armies to crush Hungary, or sending sneering messages to plague Louis Philippe, he remained proud in his apostolate of Absolutism.

But I was an enthusiast, fired with the idea of an apostolate of art, largely vicarious and due to Ruskin, who was then my prophet, and whose religion, as mine, was nature.

But there is this which makes the nature-worshiper's creed a more exalting one than that of the art-lover, that it is impersonal and compels the forgetting of one's self, which for an apostolate is essential.

The Soul of the apostolate.

The Soul of the apostolate.

His letters give us a vivid picture of his captivity, and the stress of life which gradually aroused in him the inspiration of the humane and divine ripened later into a full knowledge of his apostolate.

Yet there were tragedies in his apostolate.

Not less remarkable was the skill with which he handled men and used pagan institutions for the purposes of Christianity; and equally so was the success with which his bloodless apostolate was crowned.

Columcille's apostolate was to be among both these peoples.

The present situation is so clearly outlined by a recent writer that we may welcome a liberal quotation: "The first apostolate of Christianity was born from a deep fellow-feeling for social misery, and from the consciousness of a great historical opportunity.

If Jesus stood to-day amid our modern life, with that outlook on the condition of all humanity which observation and travel and the press would spread before him, and with the same heart of humanity beating in him, he would create a new apostolate to meet the new needs in a new harvest time of history.

Jesus failed and was crucified, first his body by his enemies and then his spirit by his friends; but that failure was such an amazing success that to-day it takes an effort on our part to realize that it required any faith on his part to inaugurate the kingdom of God and to send out his apostolate.

If that first apostolate was able to remove mountains by faith, such an apostolate as Christ could now summon might change the face of the earth.

If that first apostolate was able to remove mountains by faith, such an apostolate as Christ could now summon might change the face of the earth.

" The time is ripe for such an apostolate.

Las Casas, his Life, his Apostolate, and his Writings, cap.

xix.: B. Las Casas, his Life, his Apostolate, and his Writings, cap iv.]

Consult Fabié, Vida y Escritos de Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas (Madrid, 1879); MacNutt, Bartholomew de las Casas, his Life, his Apostolate, and his Writings, New York, 1910.]