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# The Easter Gift/Infant St. John the Baptist

* INFANT ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST.
* PAINTED BY MURILLO.ENGRAVED BY S. DAVENPORT
* FISHER, SON & CO. LONDON, 1834
THE INFANT ST. JOHN.
"In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, "And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. " For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight."Matthew iii. 1—3. "For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. "All these are the beginning of sorrows.
"For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. "Immediately after the tribulation of those days, shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. "And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the son of man coming in the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory." Matthew xxiv. 7, 8, 27, 29, 30.
Lo, on the midnight winds a young child's voice
With lofty hymn, Calling on earth and heaven to rejoice
Along with him.
Those infant lips are given from above A spirit tone, And he speaks out those words of hope and love To prophets known.
He is a herald, as the morning star
Brings daylight in,
For he doth bring glad tidings from afar
To man and sin.
Now let the desolate earth lift up her head,
And at the word
Wait till the mountains kindle with the tread
Of Christ the Lord.
And earth was conscious of her God, he came
Meek and decried,
Bearing the weight of sorrow, sin, and shame,
And for us died.
Twice shall he come—e'en now the appointed hour
Is in its birth,
When he shall come in glory, and in power
To judge the earth.
Not as before, to win mankind and save,
But in his ire,
When earth shall be but as a mighty grave
In that red fire.
Do we not live now in those evil days
Which were foretold,
In holy writings and inspired lays,
Of prophets old?
There is a wild confusion in the world, Like the vexed sea, And ancient thrones are from high places hurled, Yet man not free.
And vain opinions seek to change all life,
Yet yield no aid
To all the sickness, want, the grief and strife
Which now pervade.
Are not these signs of that approaching time
Of blood and tears,
When thou shalt call to dread account the crime
Of many years?
Then who shall hide before thee, only he
Who is all thine,
Who hath stood fast, amid iniquity,
In faith divine.
Oh, Lord, awaken us; let us not cease
To look afar.
Let us not, like the foolish, call it peace
When there is war.
Oh, teach us to believe what thy blest word
Has long declared, And let thy second advent, gracious Lord,
Find us prepared.
# The Easter Gift/Judas Returning the Thirty Pieces

* JUDAS RETURNING THE THIRTY PIECES.
* PAINTED BY REMBRANDT ENGRAVED BY W. RADDON.
* FISHER, SON & CO. LONDON, 1834
JUDAS RETURNING THE THIRTY PIECES.
"Then Judas which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders. "Saying, I have sinned, in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that. "And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself."Matthew xxvii. 3-5.
The thirty pieces down he flung, for which his Lord he sold, And tum'd away his murderer's face from that accursed gold. He cannot sleep, he dares not watch; that weight is on his heart, For which, nor earth nor heaven have hope, which never can depart.
A curse is on his memory, we shudder at his name;
At once we loathe, and scorn his guilt, and yet we do the same:
Alas! the sinfulness of man, how oft in deed and word
We act the traitor's part again, and do betray our Lord.
We bend the knee, record the vow, and breathe the fervent prayer:
How soon are prayer and vow forgot, amid life's crime and care! The Saviour's passion, cross, and blood, of what avail are they,
If first that Saviour we forget, and next we disobey?
For pleasures, vanities, and hates, the compact we renew, And Judas rises in our hearts—we sell our Saviour too. How for some moments' vain delight we will imbitter years, And in our youth lay up for age, only remorse and tears.
Ah! sanctify and strengthen, Lord, the souls that turn to thee;
And from the devil and the world our guard and solace be.
And as the mariners at sea still watch some guiding star,
So fix our hearts and hopes on thee, until thine own they are.
# The Discourses of Epictetus; with the Encheiridion and Fragments/Book 1/Chapter 30

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what we ought to have ready in difficult circumstances.
When you are going in to any great personage, remember that another also from above sees what is going on, and that you ought to please him rather than the other. He then who sees from above asks you: In the schools what used you to say about exile and bonds and death and disgrace? I used to say that they are things indifferent (neither good nor bad). What then do you say of them now? Are they changed at all? No. Are you changed then? No. Tell me then what things are indifferent? The things which are independent of the will. Tell me, also, what follows from this. The things which are independent of the will are nothing to me. Tell me also about the Good, what was your opinion? A will such as we ought to have and also such a use of appearances. And the end (purpose), what is it? To follow thee. Do you say this now also? I say the same now also.
Then go in to the great personage boldly and remember these things; and you will see what a youth is who has studied these things when he is among men who have not studied them. I indeed imagine that you will have such thoughts as these: Why do we make so great and so many preparations for nothing? Is this the thing which men name power? Is this the antechamber? this the men of the bedchamber? this the armed guards? Is it for this that I listened to so many discourses? All this is nothing: but I have been preparing myself as for something great.
# The Discourses of Epictetus; with the Encheiridion and Fragments/Book 1/Chapter 5

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against the academics.
If a man, said Epictetus, opposes evident truths, it is not easy to find arguments by which we shall make him change his opinion. But this does not arise either from the ​man's strength or the teacher's weakness; for when the man, though he has been confuted, is hardened like a stone, how shall we then be able to deal with him by argument?
Now there are two kinds of hardening, one of the understanding, the other of the sense of shame, when a man is resolved not to assent to what is manifest nor to desist from contradictions. Most of us are afraid of mortification of the body, and would contrive all means to avoid such a thing, but we care not about the soul's mortification. And indeed with regard to the soul, if a man be in such a state as not to apprehend anything, or understand at all, we think that he is in a bad condition: but if the sense of shame and modesty are deadened, this we call even power (or strength).
Do you comprehend that you are awake? I do not, the man replies, for I do not even comprehend when in my sleep I imagine that I am awake. Does this appearance then not differ from the other? Not at all, he replies. Shall I still argue with this man? And what fire or what iron shall I apply to him to make him feel that he is deadened? He does perceive, but he pretends that he does not. He is even worse than a dead man. He does not see the contradiction: he is in a bad condition. Another does see it, but he is not moved, and makes no improvement: he is even in a worse condition. His modesty is extirpated, and his sense of shame; and the rational faculty has not been cut off from him, but it is brutalised. Shall I name this strength of mind? Certainly not, unless we also name it such in catamites, through which they do and say in public whatever comes into their head.
* ↑ See Lecture V., The New Academy, Levin's Lectures Introductory to the Phoilsophical Writings of Cicero, Cambridge, 1871.
* ↑ ἀπαχθείς. See the note in Schweig.'s edition.
* ↑ Compare Cicero, Academ. Prior. ii. 6.
# The Discourses of Epictetus; with the Encheiridion and Fragments/Book 1/Chapter 3

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how a man should proceed from the principle of god being the father of all men to the rest.
If a man should be able to assent to this doctrine as he ought, that we are all sprung from God in an especial manner, and that God is the father both of men and of gods, I suppose that he would never have any ignoble or mean thoughts about himself. But if Caesar (the emperor) should adopt you, no one could endure your arrogance; and if you know that you are the son of Zeus, will you not be elated? Yet we do not so; but since ​these two things are mingled in the generation of man, body in common with the animals, and reason and intelligence in common with the gods, many incline to this kinship, which is miserable and mortal; and some few to that which is divine and happy. Since then it is of necessity that every man uses everything according to the opinion which he has about it, those, the few, who think that they are formed for fidelity and modesty and a sure use of appearances have no mean or ignoble thoughts about themselves; but with the many it is quite the contrary. For they say, What am I? A poor, miserable man, with my wretched bit of flesh. Wretched, indeed; but you possess something better than your bit of flesh. Why then do you neglect that which is better, and why do you attach yourself to this?
Through this kinship with the flesh, some of us inclining to it become like wolves, faithless and treacherous and mischievous: some become like lions, savage and bestial and untamed; but the greater part of us become foxes, and other worse animals. For what else is a slanderer and a malignant man than a fox, or some other more wretched and meaner animal? See then and take care that you do not become some one of these miserable things.
* ↑ Epictetus speaks of God (ὁ θεός) and the gods. Also conformably to the practice of the people, he speaks of God under the name of Zeus. The gods of the people were many, but his God was perhaps one. “Father of men and gods,” says Homer of Zeus; and Virgil says of Jupiter, “Father of gods and king of men.” Salmasius proposed ἀπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ. See Schweig.'s note.
* ↑ ὁρᾶτε καὶ προσέχετε μή τι τούτων ἀποβῆτε τῶν ἀτυχημάτων, Upton compares Matthew xvi. 6: ὁρᾶτε καὶ προσέχετε ἀπὸ τῆς ζύμης, &c. Upton remarks that many expressions in Epictetus are not unlike the style of the Gospels, which were written in the same period in which Epictetus was teaching. Schweighaeuser also refers to Wetstein's New Testament.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Heath, Commander George Poynter

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​Heath, Commander George Poynter, R.N., was born at Hanworth, Norfolk, on June 19th, 1830, being the younger son of the Rev. Charles Heath, vicar of Hanworth, rector of Gunton, Suffield, and rural dean, and grandson of Dr. George Heath, head master of Eton College. He married, on Feb. 23rd, 1860, at Trinity Church, Bayswater, Elizabeth Jane, the eldest daughter of Capt. J. Long Innes, of H.M.'s 39th Regiment. Entered H.M. navy as a cadet, in July 1845, on board H.M.S. Cyclops, employed on the home station with the Channel Squadron, and on the south-east coast of America. Arriving in Sydney in June 1847, in H.M.S. Rattlesnake, he was employed upon the survey of the inner route to Torres Straits and the south coast of New Guinea, under the late Capt. Owen Stanley. Returned again to the Australian station in H.M.S. Fantome he served in H.M.S. Calliope, under Sir Everard Home, on the coast of Australia, and New Zealand and in the Western Pacific. On his return to England he was employed by the Hydrographic Office in preparing charts of the Pacific Ocean. Suffering from an affection of the throat, he had to retire from active service afloat, and on the separation of Queensland from New South Wales, was appointed, in Jan. 1860, Marine Surveyor and a member of the Pilot Board of the new colony. In 1862 he was made Portmaster of Queensland and a member of the Marine Board, and in 1869 Chairman of the Marine Board. He was also for many years a member of the Immigration Board, and latterly a member of the Defence ​Committee of the colony. Capt. Heath took an active interest in Church matters, and was for many years a member of the Diocesan Council and Chairman of Committees of Synod. These offices, together with those of Portmaster of the colony, Chairman of the Marine Board, and member of the Defence Committee, he resigned in Jane 1890, when he accepted a pension under the Civil Service Act, his health necessitating rest and change. On commencing his duties in 1860, shortly after the separation of the colony, there was one lighthouse and one lightship in existence, those being in Moreton Bay. On giving up charge in 1890, the coast was lighted by thirty-five lighthouses, six lightships, and some one hundred and sixty smaller lights; eighteen ports were open with a thousand miles of buoyed and beaconed channels, including the intricate navigation of the passage through the coral waters of the inner route. On his leaving Queensland, he received a presentation of plate as an evidence of the esteem and regard of the officers and men of the department over which he had presided, and also the thanks of the Government for his long and valuable services and for the admirable manner in which the pilot and lighthouse services of the colony had been organised and controlled by him.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Helmich, A.

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​Helmich, A., sometime Postmaster-General of Western Australia, was clerk to the Auditor-General of that colony from 1843 to 1847, when he was appointed Postmaster-General and General Superintendent of Telegraphs. He retired on a pension in July 1887.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Heaton, John Henniker

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​Heaton, John Henniker, M.P., was born at Rochester, Kent, on May 18th, 1848, and educated at Kent House Grammar School and at King's College, London. At sixteen years of age he emigrated to Australia, where he engaged in pastoral pursuits, acquiring " colonial experience," and afterwards became connected with the press. He returned to England in 1884. He was one of the Commissioners for New South Wales to the Amsterdam Exhibition in that year, and in 1885 represented Tasmania at the Berlin International Telegraphic Conference, where he was largely instrumental in securing a reduction in the cable charges between England and Australia. He also interested himself in obtaining a modicum of representative government for the colony of Mauritius, which he had visited en route from Australia to England. At the general election in Nov. 1885 Mr. Heaton was returned to the House of Commons for the city of Canterbury in the Conservative interest, and in the following year was re-elected unopposed. During his Parliamentary career he has made himself prominent by his persistent attempts to reduce the cost of postal and cable communication between England and the colonies, India, and America. Mainly as the result of his exertions and the powerful assistance afforded to him by the publicity given to his contentions in the Times newspaper, the reduction of the Anglo-Colonial postage to twopence-halfpenny was brought into effect in Jan. 1891. Mr. Heaton is now intent upon the inauguration of an universal penny postal rate of intercommunication between all parts of the empire and America. Recently, in conjunction with an Australian and an English capitalist, he offered to guarantee the Imperial Government against the annual loss (estimated by Mr. Goschen at £75,000) which such an extension of the penny post might presumably occasion. The offer was, however, declined by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but the change is now brought within measurable distance of achievement, mainly owing to Mr. Heaton's indefatigable efforts. Mr. Heaton is the author of a valuable work of reference entitled "The Australian Dictionary of Biography and Men of the Time," published in 1880. Though now somewhat out of date, it must largely form the basis of all subsequent works of a similar kind. Mr. Heaton has also written one or two other brochures of a minor character. In 1873 he married Rose, only daughter of S. Bennett, of Mundarrah Towers, N.S.W.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Heales, Hon. Richard

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​Heales, Hon. Richard, M.L.A., sometime Premier of Victoria, was the son of an ironmonger, and was apprenticed to a coachmaker. He was born in London, and, having married, emigrated to Victoria with his father in 1842. At first he worked as a journeyman coachbuilder, but soon became proprietor of the establishment in which he had been employed. In 1849 he was elected to the Melbourne City Council for Gipps Ward, and then paid a visit to England, which lasted from 1852 to 1855, during which he made himself prominent as an advocate of the Temperance cause. Responsible government having been conceded, he was elected to the Assembly for East Bourke in 1857, and became the leader of the advanced liberal party. In Nov. 1860 the Nicholson Ministry were defeated by a somewhat incongruous majority, which subsequently put forward Mr. Heales for the premiership, which he assumed in conjunction with the office of Chief Secretary. His Cabinet included such strong names as those of Ireland, Verdon, J. M. Grant, and others; and Mr. Heales sketched out a democratic programme which included payment or members, reform of the Upper House, and protection to native industries, all of which were subsequently achieved after a long and arduous struggle. Finding himself in a minority, Mr. Heales obtained a dissolution in July 1861; but his fiscal policy being distrusted, he had to make way for Mr. (afterwards Sir) John O'Shanassy in the following November. As a private member, Mr. Heales was able to achieve a great triumph in the passing of a measure which he introduced for the maintenance and establishment of common schools, and which virtually laid the foundation of the present advanced state school system of Victoria. ​This bill, which dissolved the Denominational School Board, and vested in a new "Board of Education" the property held by the National School Board, and rendered religions teaching optional and separate from the secular instruction imparted, received the royal assent in June 1862. In June of the next year Mr. Heales joined the first McCulloch Government—the most powerful ever formed in the colony—as Minister of Lands, subordinating his personal claims to leadership in order to assist in the imposition of a moderate protective tariff. He died, however, just before the general election which strengthened their hands to propose it, and to enter on the bitter struggle with the Upper House in which it eventuated. His premature death took place on June 19th, 1864.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Hearn, Hon. William Edward

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​Hearn, Hon. William Edward, M.L.C., LL.D., the son of Rev. W. E. Hearn, vicar of Killargue, and afterwards of Kildrumferton, co. Cavan, Ireland, was born at Belturbet, co. Cavan, on April 21st, 1826, and educated at the Royal School of Enniskillen, and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he studied law ​In 1849, on the opening of the Queen's Colleges, he was appointed Professor of Greek in the Queen's College, Galway, and afterwards held the office of Examiner to the Queen's University of Ireland. On the opening of the University of Melbourne in 1854, Dr. Hearn was selected by a committee—of which the late Sir John Herschel was chairman—as Professor of Modern History, Modern Literature, Logic, and Political Economy. Later on he became Professor of Modern History and Political Economy alone—a post which he resigned on being appointed Dean of the Faculty of Law. In this capacity he lectured on Jurisprudence, Roman, Constitutional, and International Law. His personal influence on the university students of his time has left a deep impress on the scholarship and culture of Victoria in the present generation. He was an indefatigable literary worker, and besides holding for some time the position of editor of the Australasian, he found time to write four important books. Had he confined his attention to one subject, he might very probably have attained the first rank in eminence; as it was his active mind travelled in too many grooves. His first work was entitled "Plutology; or, The Theory of the Efforts to Satisfy Human Wants." This was for a long time recognised as a standard work in political economy, and though the advance of the science has tended to render the book obsolete, it will always have its importance in connection with the history of the science. His next book was "The Government of England: its Structure and Development" (1867). This is still regarded as a unique book, being the best story of the growth of our unwritten Constitution. In 1878 he published his "Aryan Household: its Structure and its Development." This is an introduction to the study of comparative jurisprudence, and analyses the ethical conceptions of our primitive ancestors. Lastly, in 1884 he published his "Theory of Legal Duties and Rights," a work which was suggested by the final task to which he devoted himself. This was the consolidation of the Victorian statutes, a most laborious compilation, in the midst of which death overtook him on April 23rd, 1888. In 1878 he had been returned as representative of the Central Province in the Legislative Council. For some years he was the recognised leader of the Council, and took a prominent part in politics as a Constitutionalist and Free Trader. Dr. Hearn, whose family was of Northumbrian origin, married first, in 1847, Rose, daughter of Rev. W. J. H. Lefanu, rector of St. Paul's, Dublin (who died in 1877), and secondly, in 1878, Isabel, daughter of Major W. G. St. Clair.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Heath, Alfred

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​Heath, Alfred, J. P., Commissioner of Audit, South Australia, entered the Civil Service of that colony as third clerk in the Treasury in May 1852, became cashier in Sept. 1862, Secretary to the Minister of Education in July 1879, and Commissioner of Audit and Auditor under the Road Act in August 1883.
# The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Lily of the Valley

THE LILY OF THE VALLEY
Sweetest of the flowers a-blooming  In the fragrant vernal days Is the Lily of the Valley  With its soft, retiring ways.
Well, you chose this humble blossom  As the nurse's emblem flower, Who grows more like her ideal  Every day and every hour.
Like the Lily of the Valley  In her honesty and worth, Ah, she blooms in truth and virtue  In the quiet nooks of earth.
Tho' she stands erect in honor  When the heart of mankind bleeds, Still she hides her own deserving  In the beauty of her deeds.
In the silence of the darkness  Where no eye may see and know, There her footsteps shod with mercy,  And fleet kindness come and go.
Not amid the sounds of plaudits,  Nor before the garish day, Does she shed her soul's sweet perfume,  Does she take her gentle way.
But alike her ideal flower,  With its honey-laden breath, Still her heart blooms forth its beauty  In the valley shades of death.
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