But what manner of man was St John the Baptist in the meantime?

Near by is the little eager S. John the Baptist as a boy by Antonio Rossellino (1427-1478), and on the next wall the same sculptor's circular relief of the Madonna adoring, in a border of cherubs.

How, then, shall we picture John the Baptist to ourselves?

She stands, in a subordinate position, on one side of Christ; St. Peter or St. John the Baptist on the other.

The comment of the disciples upon the identification of the Baptist with Elias (Matt. xvii.

The old European quarrels had an echo here, and the catholics of Maryland, the episcopalians of Virginia, the puritans of Massachusetts, the baptists of Rhode Island, the lutherans of New York, and the quakers of Pennsylvania, all had grievances to remember.

He presented himself like a second John the Baptist at the courts of kings and princes, and there boldly denounced vice and misrule.

He early offended by choosing a Baptist for a wife.

Three of them were Baptists like himself, who prayed every night; and their companions, though they did not take part in the praying, did not interrupt it.

Here also are a wistful and poignant John the Baptist by Dossi, No. 380; two Dürersan Adam and an Eve, very naked and primitive, facing each other from opposite walls; and two Rubens landscapes not equal to ours at Trafalgar Square, but spacious and lively.

The skipper had argued so warmly that he almost fancied he must have inherited the tenets of the Seventh-day Baptists from his mother while the mate had surprised himself by the warmth of his advocacy of a form of Wesleyanism which would have made the members of that sect open their eyes with horror.

Like the prophets and the Baptist before Him, whose work and whose end were so often in His thoughts, He preached righteousness to an unrighteous world, and paid with His life the penalty of His daring.