could not be kept up to sixty-five degrees.

"THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE."--The atrocities of landlordism in Ireland,
evicting the poor in midwinter, tearing down their cabins, and burning
their roofs to drive them out, have excited horror in England, and
sympathy for the Irish.

CHRISTIANITY IN JAPAN.--The Rev. Mr. Harris has expressed the opinion
that in ten or twenty years Christianity might become the national
religion of Japan, as the heathen temples are going into decay. If it
does, Christianity will be as much benefited by it as the Japanese.
The cast iron theology of the Anglo-Saxon race will not suit the
Japanese. The works of agnostic scientists and liberals have already a
strong hold on the Japanese. The Christianity of the past will have to
be reformed and ameliorated to suit Japan. They will never appreciate
the theology of the Andover creed, which has been versified as follows
by _Puck_:

"There is a place of endless terror
Prepared for those who fall in error,
Where fire and death and torture never
Cease their work, but rule forever;
To this dark cave, for Adam's sin,
Must all his children enter in.
But the all-merciful Creator
Took pity on the fallen traitor,
Prepared a narrow path of pardon
That led to heaven's happy garden;
And, lest mankind prefer to sin,
_Predestined some_ to walk therein.
But millions still in error languish,
Doomed to death and future anguish,
Who ne'er had heard of Adam's sin,
Nor of the peril they are in;
Who know not of the way of pardon,
Nor of the fall in Eden's garden.

"This, my friends, is the Andover creed;
Put it aside for the time of need!
In the hour of grief and sorrow
From it consolation borrow;
When your dearest friends are dying,
Read it to the mourners crying;
Teach it to the tender maiden,
To the man with sorrow laden;
Teach it to the timid child,
Watch its look of horror wild,
Note the half-defiant fear,
Flushing cheek and pitying tear;
Teach it to the broken hearted,
From their loved ones newly parted;
Show them that their pride and beauty--
Type of love and filial duty--
This, their darling, whom they cherished,
Has in hell forever perished,
All because of Adam's folly!
'Twill drive away your melancholy.
A wonderful thing is the Andover creed,
Put it aside for the hour of need!"

THE HELLFIRE BUSINESS.--This expression is homely English, and such
language