out of the way? That was the course of the Templars, and their sad
end. They began poorest of the poor, "two Knights to one Horse,"
as their Seal bore; and they at last took FIRE on very opposite
accounts. "To carouse like a Templar:" that had become a proverb
among men; that was the way to produce combustion, "spontaneous"
or other! Whereas their fellow Hospitallers of St. John, chancing
upon new work (Anti-Turk garrison-duty, so we may call it,
successively in Cyprus, Rhodes, Malta, for a series of ages), and
doing it well, managed to escape the like. As did the Teutsch
Order in a still more conspicuous manner.


TEUTSCH ORDER ITSELF GOES TO PREUSSEN.

Ever since St. Adalbert fell massacred in Prussia, stamping
himself as a Crucifix on that Heathen soil, there have been
attempts at conversion going on by the Christian neighbors, Dukes
of Poland and others: intermittent fits of fighting and preaching
for the last two hundred years, with extremely small result.
Body of St. Adalbert was got at light weight, and the poor man
canonized; there is even a Titular Bishop of Prussia;
and pilgrimages wander to the Shrine of Adalbert in Poland,
reminding you of Prussia in a tragic manner; but what avails it?
Missionaries, when they set foot in the country, are killed or
flung out again. The Bishop of Prussia is titular merely; lives in
Liefland (LIVONIA) properly Bishop of RIGA, among the Bremen
trading-settlers and converted Lieflanders there, which is the
only safe place,--if even that were safe without aid of armed men,
such as he has there even now. He keeps his SCHWERTBRUDER
(Brothers of the Sword), a small Order of Knights, recently got up