remorse is so unendurable that it drives him to suicide.

If a record could be kept of those who have abjured Jesus through love
of gold, through fear of the world or of the scribes and Pharisees, we
should find many who are considered quite respectable, or have even been
canonised, and who, nevertheless, much more worthily than Iscariot, are
entitled to "champing" by the jaws of Sathanas. Not a single scrap from
Judas himself has reached us. He underwent no trial, and is condemned
without plea or excuse on his own behalf, and with no cross-examination
of the evidence. No witnesses have been called to his character. What
would his friends at Kerioth have said for him? What would Jesus have
said? If He had met Judas with the halter in his hand would He not have
stopped him? Ah! I can see the Divine touch on the shoulder, the
passionate prostration of the repentant in the dust, the hands gently
lifting him, the forgiveness because he knew not what he did, and the
seal of a kiss indeed from the sacred lips.



SIR WALTER SCOTT'S USE OF THE SUPERNATURAL IN THE "BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR"



The supernatural machinery in Sir Walter Scott's Monastery is generally
and, no doubt, correctly, set down as a mistake. Sir Walter fails, not
because the White Lady of Avenel is a miracle, but because being
miraculous, she is made to do what sometimes is not worthy of her.
This, however, is not always true, for nothing can be finer than the
change in Halbert Glendinning after he has seen the spirit, and the
great master himself has never drawn a nobler stroke than that in which