The friars and how they came to England;

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the Epiphany lent, and that Monning With

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introduced into inis nem Rula, inita has gruenrise to no litue controversy. Let the Methren, it says, Wino cannot read be not anxious toleam, but ruther let inem Meh to have the spiritos the L d.'N- the Rule is a clear reflection in Words of the essentiat Ese of the Mint and his earllast compani S. But it contemptates a Widespreadsociety, and not a mali family, and it is evidentinat M. Francis had Hready begun to perdetrus certain tangere inead. Indeed, a Strong Par Hready existed amongst the multitude of Friam

ho did not reatly grasp the Stanes ideat, and Who Were Francisoan Ohiev by the accident of the gain they Wore. Under Elias and Gregory of Naples they had nearly Wreaed the Order during the Mint's absenos in Syria in 1220, and the last years of his life Were -- bittered by the tro les they created. It Waschlany to proteot his ideat against these salse Methren that the Rese Was Wruten, and it

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moVement out of the region of the pure ideat into the si in and strem of the w M's actuallise. Hene orth ins Friar's mission Was nolonger to M limited by the idyllio conditions os

Umbria, but Was to be as Moad as Christendom, and to mine iraeli sola in Gery depariment of Christian Ese.

Very interesting Would it be to trade the Progress of the movement throuo ali inericissitudes of iis history. Noinere is the perpetuat conflict bemeen a divine ideat and fallen human nature more Visidly po revinthan in the Mory of the Friam. There oneoan see the incessant strumle bet en inevitat sordes of spiritualiu and Woridliness Whiin maris the progress M Gery great religiousmoVement. M one time the ideat triumphsand at another it is thrown bach; noW it is the spirit of WMMU prudenos and relaxation Whicli

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touch upon some of the determining minis in

the history of the movement. Re find, then, Mihin a very s- years asterine promulgation of the Rule instrua e me' scome over the sace of the Francisoan Amily. ne Friam no longer live in abandonin tauro sor rude huis, but in conventa' especialty bulla fortheir use. They stili in some mearum eam

their brein is manual labo , but the numberos publio preainers has incremed, and in consequenoe they depend largely upon the alma of the peπle. Gradually, too, the conVentuallam os lue displaces the earlier system os lisinghere and there, some in heristages and othera in the houses of those they servin; and in the es os the pmple, at least, the Friars have something of the character of Monta. More remactabie stili, they inis to sinu, and invade

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mined by the very natura es inings. St. Francis himself had Weloomin into his society ali sores and conditions of men. The oesy demand hemine Mon them Was that in repent of thela

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With Churin and State, as Wore so many of theres ming moisments of the time. Or at bestine movement Would have Maled out in inoffective individuat enthusiams. mmover, that the neW organisation inould come under thedirect contres of tho Churin and assume an ecclesiastical character W- ω be expected. One need but sindy the history of the timeto See necessary the conuol of the Churin Was in guide the n- enthusiam and turn itinio a practicia direction. Under inch contresina Cainari, the Waldenses, and other dies might have effected muta good in the Worid, instead of Mooming, as they did, mere factionsat war With ali recreuised aut rity. Francis, more eri WaS too true a Catholis and ino big aman Ger to Separate himself stom the Ch oheven in thought, and Onos he had determinedio gather ingether companions and preain thes pel, it came naturalty in his to Asa ecclesiastical sanction. Again, Onos the Friara Were an organised socie , they had in Moomo partes the ecclesiastical institution or esse a merodissenting seel. No initate murae Was practioia.

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question sor a multitude of Friars, separatin m the ordinary Ese of the Worid, to continus Without permanent Nellings, and be quare edupon Other people. One has but to put thesiluation into ossis to reali se iis absurdi . d is in time the Fri ars came to live leas by

manual labour and more in dependenoe onatas, this devel opinent is justified by the saetinat in gwe themselisa more genemusty in publio Woris, both spiritual and corporal, sor Uoh they got uo direct payment. Finalty, ouos St. Francis determined to send sorin his brethren in preMh, the necessity for theological study might have been Aretoid. In the firstentis asm created by the moVement the γπledrank in every Word ultered by the Friars, and the Friare themselves, exalted in spirit by the bighly spiritual atmosphere surmunding their Bunder, could dra that spiritual visionmor present to their Aouis for the instructionthey imparted. M intense momenta in humanlde the simplest Wotas sume to roeat theium t spiris of men. It is othemige When

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they retum in a more normal condition of miud

Then they require in be convinoed by visibis

attempt to reproduce the original type in allius ideat simplici , as far as it Was possibie in changed conditions of time and plaee; and this constant reversion is ine best proof of the genuineuess os develoment Within the inder. ery smin inmad of ths spirit of relaxation