Sentiment.

take their eloquent defence of right to be the same thing as doing right . Indeed , there is an uneasy suspicion in society that upright and blameless conduct is generally doubtful where its praises are excessive . The more talk , the less action , is apparently the rule ; the more eloquence , the less energy for

performance . This is our peril . As a nation we are in danger of losing sight of the distinction between religious sentiment and conduct , and we may degenerate into Pharisaical hollowness , and thus prepare the way for a decline . The danger is manifest , both in the domains of religion and politics . — " American Tyler . "

The Bible.

THE BIBLE .

Continued from page 131 . UNIVERSALITY of the Word " Sack . "— " One Emanuel , a Jewish poet , especially remarkable for pleasantry , who lived at Eome about the end of the eleventh century , gives an interesting account in one of his sonnets how the word ' sack' came to remain in all languages , as it certainly does , and in the same sense . ' They , ' says he , ' who were employed at the Tower

of Babel , had , like our modern workmen , each a sack to put their little matters in ; but being strangely frightened on the Lord ' s confounding their language , every one was for making off , calling out for his sack ; and nothing was heard of everywhere but sack ! sack I Thus the word continued to be made use of in all the languages which began to be formed at this juncture . '" — " Oxford Magazine , " August 1770 .

Dr . Brewer , in " Phrase and Fable , " gives the following , as illustrating the above tradition , viz ., " Saxon , ssec ; German , sack ; Welsh , sach ; Irish sac ; French , sac ; Latin , saccus ; Italian , sacco ; Spanish , saco ; Greek , sakkos ; Hebrew , sak ; Swedish , sack ; " & c , & c .

Division into Chapters and Verses . —With regard to the division of the holy Scriptures into chapters and verses , some have ascribed the present form to the schoolmen ; others say it was the invention of Langton , Archbishop of Canterbury in 1220 ; and Heidegger assigns it to one Arlott , an Hetruscan general of the order of Minims , who flourished about 1290 . But

others , and those of the ablest and most judicious critics , ascribe the invention to Hugo de Sancto Caro , a Dominican monk , better known by the name of Cardinal Hugo , who wrote about the year 1240 , and died in 1262 . This celebrated monk was the first who made a concordance of the vulgar Latin Bible .

Dr . Brewer says the division into verse was begun by Babbi Nathan , about 1445 , and finished by Athias , a Jew , in 1662 .

Novel Calculate . —The following novel calculation is said to have occupied three years of a man ' s life , and is generally considered to be an accurate account of the English version of the Bible . In the Old Testament . In the New Testament . Total . Number of Books 39 Number of Books 27 66 .

„ Chapters 929 „ Chapters 260 1 , 189 . „ Letters 2 , 728 , 100 „ Letters 838 , 380 3 , 566 , 480 , „ Verses 23 , 214 „ Versos 7 , 959 31 , 173 Words 592 , 493 „ Words 181 , 253 773 , 746

The Apocrypha contains Chapters 183 . Verses 6 , 081 . . Words 125 , 185 . In the Old Testament The middle book is Proverbs . „ „ chapter is Job xxxix

„ ,, verse would be II . Chronicles xx 17 , if there were a verse more , and verse 16 if there were a verse less . The shortest verse is I . Chronicles i 1 . „ longest verse is the 9 th of the 8 th Chapter of Esther . The 19 th chapter of II . Kings , and the 37 th chapter of Isaiah are alike . The 21 st verse of the 7 th chapter of Ezra contains every letter of the English alphabet , and is the only one thus distinguished : " And I , even I

Artaxerxes the king , do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river , that whatsoever Ezra the priest , the scribe of the law of the God of heaven , shall require of you , it be done speedily . " The word " and " occurs 35 , 535 times . „ „ " Jehovah " occurs 6 , 855 times . In the New Testament

The middle book is II . Thessalonians . ,, ,, chapter would be Bomans xiii if there were a chapter less and xiv if there were a chapter more . The middle verse is the 17 th of the 17 th chapter of the Acts . „ shortest verse is John xi 35 . ,, word " and " occurs 10 , 684 times .

The Mormon Bible . — " The Book of Mormon , " or Golden Bible , written on golden plates , was really a novel , the work of the Bev . Solomon Spalding , but claimed by Joseph Smith , the pretended Hebrew prophet , and founder of the Mormon system , as a revelation from heaven to himself . Spalding died in 1816 ; but "Joe" Smith , while a prisoner at Carthage , in 1844 , was

assasinated by a gang of ruffians who broke into the prison and shot him . His successor was the notorious Brigham Young , a carpenter by trade . Dr . Brewer says of the Mormon creed : — " Abraham is their model man , and Sarai their model woman , and English the one language which all the saints must speak . "

The Birth of Christ -. —According to Col . H . W . J . Senior , in his pamphlet " The Great Pyramid , " " Astronomically the date of the building of the Pyramid has been ascertained to be 2170 B . C ., a date which has been confirmed by the fact that there are perpendicular lines chiselled on the sides of the entrance passage on blocks of stone . The shape of both these blocks differs from those of the remaining blocks used in the construction of the passage , evidently with the intention of attracting attention to these

apparently insignificant marks , which are exactly 2 , 170 inches from ; the entrance to the Grand Gallery ; thereby , as we understand it , marking off the date of the building of the Pyramid , and , at the same time , fortelling exactly the date of the birth of Christ in years as represented by inches . This startling fact having been established , it was observed that all the passages represented a historical chart , foretelling the various dispensations of Scripture

The Bible.

The Language spoken by the Jews . —The language spoken by the Jews in the time of Jesus Christ was the Aramean Syriac" or Pushto of Western Syria—a dialect of the Chaldee ( or Hebrew in which tho Synagogue Pentateuch is written ) , and very similar to the Tamul . The Sentence passed upon Our Saviour . —The following is a copy of the most memorable judicial sentence ever pronounced in the annals of the world , namely , that of death against the Saviour . It is copied from the

plate of brass on which the sentence was engraved in the Hebrew language : — Sentence pronounced by Pontius Pilate , Intendant ot the Province of Lower Galilee , that Jesus of Nazareth shall suffer death by the Cross . In the seventeenth year of the reign of the Emperor Tiberius and on the 25 th of the month of March in the most holy city of Jerusalem , during the Pontificate of ANNAS and CAIAPHAS PONTIUS PILATE , Intendant of the Province of Lower Galilee , sitting in judgment in the presidential seat

of the Prastors , sentences Jesus Christ of Nazareth to death on a cross between two robbers , as the numerous and notorious testimonials of the people prove : 1 . Jesus is a misleader . 2 . He has excited the people to sedition . 3 . He is an enemy to the laws . 4 . He calls himself the & ON of GOD . 5 . He calls himself falsely the KING of ISBAEL . 6 . He went into the Temple followed by a multitude carrying palms into their hands . Orders : —The first Ceuturibn , ' yuintus Cornelius to bring him to the place of

execution , forbids all persons , rich or poor , to prevent the execution of Jesus . The witnesses who have signed the execution against Jesus are : —1 . Daniel Bobani , Pharisee ; 2 . John Zorobabel ; 3 . Baphael Bobani ; 4 . Capet . Jesus to be taken out of Jerusalem through tho gate of Tournea . On the sides of the plate are the following words . — " A similar plate has been sent to each tribe . " It was discovered in the year 1820 , in the city of Aquilla , in the Kingdom of Naples , by a search made for the discovery of Roman antiquities ,

and remained there until it was found by the Commissaries of Art and the French Army of Italy . Up to the time of the campaign in Southern Italy it was preserved in the Sacristy of the Carthusians near Naples , where it was kept in a box of ebony . Since then the relic has been kept in the Chapel of Caserta . The Carthusians obtained permission for the plate to be kept by them , as an acknowledgment of the sacrifices which thoy made for the French Army . The French translation was made literally by members of the Commission of Arts .

The Originals of Humanity . —We learn from the Scriptures that of the earliest created beings , tho first man was duped ; the first woman deceived her husband ; and the first child turned out a murderer , which were certainly bad beginnings , but in spite of these facts , the Bible , revised at various times with most reverential care , has still a hold upon the affections

of the masses , attracted to peruse it by reason of the pure Saxon which dominates the whole of the work ; it is useful to the theological student as a guide to ancient history , ancient customs , and ancient laws , and it is popular with the essentially religious man , * on account of its moral and spiritual truths : he looks to it for comfort in affliction , and considers it to be tbe medium by which he may obtain a great and glorious immortality . " The Book of Rarities , " by Edward Roberts , P . M .

The Theatres, &C.

The Theatres , & c .

Drury Lane . —7-30 , The Great Buby . Matinee , Saturday , 1-30 . Lyceum . —8 , Macbeth . Her Majesty ' s . —8-15 , The Termagant . Matinee , Wednesday , 2-15 . Hay market . —8-30 , The Little Minister . Matinee , Saturday , 2-30 . Adelphi . —8 , The Gipsy Earl . Vaudeville . —8-20 , Her Boyal Highness . Matinee , Wednesday , 2-30 . Daly ' s . —8-15 , A Greek Slave . Matinee , Saturday , 2-30 .

Savoy . —8-20 , The Gondoliers . Matinee , Saturday , 230 . ( Last day . Prince of Wales ' s . —8 , The Boyal Star . Gaiety . —8-15 , A Runaway Girl . Matinee , Saturday , 2 . Strand . —8-15 , No credit . 9 , What happened to Jones . Matinee , Wednesday and Saturday , 3 . St . James ' s . —On Thursday , at 8-30 , The Elder Miss Blossom . Globe . —8 , Hogmanay . 8-45 , Tommy Dodd . Matinee , Wednesday and

Saturday , 3 . Avenue . —8 , Constancy . 8-30 , Lord and Lady Algy . Matinee , Wednesday , 3 . Garrick . —8-15 , The Secret of the Keep . 9 , Teresa . Matinee , Saturday , 3 . Terry ' s—8 , Meadow Sweet . 8-45 , Our Boys . Matinee , Wednesday and Saturday , 3 . Shaftesbury . —8 , The Belle of New York . Matinee , Wednesday , 2 . Lyric—8-15 , Little Miss Nobody .

Duke of York's . —8-15 , The Dandy Fifth . Matinee , Wednesday , 2 30 . Comedy . —On Wednesday , The Topsy Turvy Hotel . Royalty . —On Saturday , at 8 , The Land of Nod . Grand . —Next week , Sporting Life . Park hurst . —Next week , Valentine Smith ' s Opera Company . Queen ' s Opera House , Crouch End . —Next Week , Under the Bed Robe . Alexandra . —Next week , Two Little Vagabonds .

Dalston . —Next week , East Lynno . Alhambra . —8 , Variety Entertainment . Jack Ashore , & c . Empire . —7-50 , Variety Entertainment . " The Press " Ballet , & c . Palace . —7 -45 , Variety Entertainment . New American Biograph , & c . London Pavilion . —8 , Variety Entertainment . Tivoli . —7-30 , Variety Entertainment . Saturday , 2-15 also .

Royal . —7 - 30 , Variety Company . Saturday , 2-30 also . Egyptian Hall . —3 and 8 , Mr . J . N . Maskelyno ' s entertainment . Crystal Palace . —Varied attractions daily . Thursdays , Fireworks . Alexandra Palace . —Open Daily . Constant Amusements . Baloon Ascents . ' Fireworks , & c , & c . Royal Aquarium . —Open 10 a . m ., close 11-30 p . m . Constant Amusement .

LODGE Summonses , Lists of members , Menus , & c , of every description . Morgan , Printer , Freemason ' s Chronicle Office , New Barnet ,