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ST. LOUIS AND CALVEN.#-

I There are two strange things about this book—lts
I author and its subject. It is indeed very strange that
the man who, thirty years ago, as Prime Minister of
France, was plotting against England, and resorting to
subterfuges and diplomatic ambuscades, should now appear,
as author of a volume of Sunday reading for English
households. It is almost as strange to see such names
as St. Louis and Calvin in conjunction. M. Guizot,
however, is catholic. in the true sense of the word,
DAINLESS and PRACTICAL DENTISTRY,
11_ by Nlr. B. L. MOSS I.Y, the Dentist by special appoint-. Louis IX., King of France, commonlycalled St. Louis,
meat, 312, i:EGENT- STREET, exactly opposite the Royal was smitten by a dangerous illness. He lay seemingly
Pelytechnic. Established 1820. This, the most perfected- hopeless, and those around him thought him dead, when
system of painless dentistry, originated and invented -by suddenly he stretched out his arm, and with a hollow
Mr. B. L. 3fosely, is le commended by the Hospitals and voice, said, "The day-spring from on high hath visited
adopted by o profes:sion ag one of the greatest improve-
ments of the ago for the al'eviation of pain and restoration me, and by the grace of God called me from among tho
of the natural functions, can solely be obtains lin such -dead." Immediately be sent for two of the bishops and
perfected success (the.result of forty years' practical ex- ordered them to affix the holy cross to his shoulder, as a
superlativeilone()at his on:y residence, 312, Regent-street. The
that on Lis recovery be would jounmyto the Holy Land.
excellence of this system is perfect', immunity
from p,in, no operations, stumps, and decayed teeth ren- The bishops and his mother sought to dissuade him, but
dered usrful. loose teeth and tender gents protected. in vain. Three years passed before the state of the king.
Qualities: These teeth never change colour or decay din gave Louis the opportunity of fulfilling his vow, and
fit utee-ring—ease and con fort. unsurpassed—dk.teeron
it was Loped that he bad forgotten it. When he slier.-ed
impogsible—the facial anatomy faithfully smiled —and
youthful appearance restored - mast ieto ion and art ieul.o ion that be meant to keep it his courtiers and clergy besought
g..arante,el. The e Tints" of March 6 says: "So good him to desist. They said it was made when he was in
an iln'iatii,ll 4.eoities tii next hest thing to the or'gia::l.” weakness, and not in rightful possession of his senses. On
Teeth from 5g.; s ts. 5 to 30 guineas. otn4iiitainat
hearing this be removed the cross from his shoulder, to
free.--A !idv addre-s, 312, Regent-strett, xac.ly facing the
Royal rolyteelinie. their great satisfaction. • That satisfaction was shortlived.
- He replaced the symbol, with a remark that he was then,
• at all events, in full possession of his faculties. It
was on June 12th, 1248, that he set out
for Egypt. How disastrous was that expedition we
need not stay to tell. "Louis forgot that he was
, a king and a general, and gave way to transports of blind,
unreflecting valour, and the very devotion to his cause
made him continually forget, not only the difficulty of
success, but the first conditions of it." At first the fervid
valour of the Christians carried everything before them ;
but it soon made them heedless, and exposed them to the
direst reverses. Retreat became necessary. Louis, stnig-
gling with illness, refused to be conveyed down the Nile
in a boat, because he would thereby be separated from his
disheartened army. At length it became necessary to
parley with the enemy, and, by some lamentable blunder,
the King became a prisoner. The Sultan treated him
with generosity, but demanded, as one condition of
restoring his freedom, that Louis should surrender
the towns in Palestine which the Christians still held,
This Louis resolutely refused to do. They were, he said
not his. The Sultan threatened—the Sultan might do
what he pleased. At length Louis was set free upon pay.
ing a ransom equal to more than £4oo,ooo—an enormous
sum at that time. Louis's companions were for returning
to France; but be resolved to visit Palestine, in the
hope of recovering the Holy Sepulchre from the
Paynim. Perhaps nothing so strongly displays the
uprightness and the integrity of this sovereign as an
incident which happened to him in the Holy Land. The
Sultan of Aleppo and Damascus, who was then at war with
the Sultan of Egypt, offered to restore to Louis the king.
dom of Jerusalem, provided he would assist him against
his enemy. The temptation must have been very strong;
the rescue of the Holy Sepulchre was the brightest
dream, the dearest wish, of all true Christians at that
time, and the realisation now seemed within Louis's
grasp. But Louis had, on being released, engaged to keep
a ten years' truce with the Sultan of Egypt. The time
had not yet arrived for the promulgation of the detest-
able doctrine, "no faith with heretics." The
Christian saint resisted the temptation. His only reward
was that of a good conscience. News came of the
death of his mother, who was Regent during his absence,
and this was followed by letters urgently desiring his
return. He complied, and re-entered his kingdom after
six years absence. But still he had not abandoned his
project. It acquired additional strength, for the tidings
came to the effect that the King of Tunis contem-
plated embracing Christianity. On March 10, 1270,
sixteen years after his return from his first expedition, he
set out upon his second. Before he reached Tunis be was
seized with fever, and by the time that be arrived there
he was so reduced by it that very little of life remained in
him.

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"On the night of the 24th of August, he started
up several times in his bed, and called out,
Jerusalem ! Jerusalem ! We will go to Jerusalem
At last he ceased to speak, although he shewed
that he was in full possession of his faculties, and in sym-
pathy with, and conscious of, the friends who surrounded
him and the priests who brought him religious consola-
tion. By his desire he received extreme unction at the
foot of his bed, extended upon a coarse sack, covered,
with ashes, and with the cross before him. On Monday,
the 20th of August, 1270, about three o'clock in the after-
noon, he expired peacefully. His last words were Father,
after the example of the Divine Master, into thy hands t
commend my spirit."
Calvin lived almost exactly three centuries after St..
Louis, and for exactly the same number of years, both.
being 55 at their death. The details of the Reformer's
career are better known than those of the King's. We will,
therefore, confine ourselves to that one incident of Calvin's
life which has darkened his memory. 31. Guizot is a fer-
vent admirer of the famous Frenchman, and while too
judicial to undertake the now common process of white-
washing, he has clearly done his best to remove from
Calvin's reputation that one black spot which made us
say that lie was deficient in the most essential element of
Christianity—charity. Of Calvin's controversy with the
"Libertines" we say nothing, except that he was fur the
most part in the right, and never more so than when he
resisted the civil authority in its claim to decide who were
fit persons to receive the Holy Communion. This was a
fair, stand-up fight, and the better of the two combatants
won. But the fight with Servetus was not fair. This
Spanish heretic, for heretic he undoubtedly was,
held the doctrines of Pantheism. He attempted
to draw Calvin into a written controversy, but Calvin
declined with words of contempt and that pious arrogance
which is so exasperating to the object of it. Servetus,
then living at Vienne, published a book full of hetero-
doxy called, "The Restoration of Christianity." The
Roman Catholics had lately been accusing the Reformers
of being without discipline and sanctioning the most un-
bridled licence. This book, written by one who was still
nominally a Catholic, and published under the very eye of
a bishop, gave the Reformers an opportunity of retaliating,.
The result was that Servetus was summoned to answer:
for having written this book. He was a weak man, and
he denied his authorship. Thereupon Calvin sent, for•
the use of the Roman Catholic authorities, some private
letters which Servetus had written to him in confidence,
and which contained the very heresies set forth in the
volume. Of course Calvin knew well enough that he, a
Protestant, and, as such, claiming the right of private
judgment, was preparing for one who exercised that right
destruction at the hand of a Church which denied it.
The doom of Servetus was the stake. Yet it was not the
Inquisitors, but the Reformer, who was to execute that
doom. Servetus escaped from Vienne, and, by a strange
infatuation, took up his abode at Geneva. Calvin turned
prosecutor, and Servetus was brought to trial. He had
weakly denied his opinions before; he boldly contended
for them now. Ho offered to dispute with Calvin even on
such unequal terms as those which must always exist
when the one party is in the power of the other. Servetus
openly announced his Pantheistic opinions. Calvin called,
him " Wretch !" by way of reply. The end of it was that,
after about two-and-a-half months' trial, Servetus was
condemned to be burnt, as he had been condemned, at
Vienne, on both occasions through the hostility of Calvin.
The doomed man, heretic though he was, sent for his perse-
cutor to ask for his forgiveness for any harsh words that
he had said of him. Calvin, orthodox Reformer though
be was; overwhelmed the man he had ruined with
reproaches and with Pharisaical talk.
" Servetus was willing. to ask pardon, but would
not disavow his opinions. Even in the depths
of his despair he preserved all the pride of
honest conviction ; and although he entreated that
his life might be spared, he would not consent to
dishonour it by a false recantation. . . . The dignity
of the philosopher trembled over the weakness of the
man, and Servetus died heroically and calmly at the
stake, the very thought of which had at first filled him
ith terror."
Calvin died in his bed, and all Geneva came to take
farewell of him. Yet if we were asked which of the two
displayed more of the spirit of Christianity at his end,
Pantheistic Servetus or Predestination Calvin, it is cer-
tainly not the name of 'the latter that we should mention
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