ART. IV. THE TWO TEMPLES.

ON the banks of the Rhine river,
In the far-off German land,

A temple, with the time-frost hoary,
Scarred and worn by age, doth stand.
Faith built it in the ages dark,
When faithful work was prayer,
As an offering and an anthem
To the GOD of Everywhere.

For the rearing there were given
Wealth of noble, vassal's mite, -
Costly gifts of weeping Magdalene,
And of Saintship's heavenly light.
Iron from the deep, dark underground,
And the treasures of the wood,
Granite from the purple Rhine hills,
Borne adown its restless flood.

Rich in vestments for its altars,
And the dust of kingly dead;
Paintings rare of ancient masters,
Jewelled Cross of Christ, the Head:
Built up by holy Sacrament,

Of Strength, and Trust, and Prayer,
By the lifting of the spirit

To the Son of Mary fair.

And still the workman laboreth
On this temple high and hoar;
Still uprising, though unfinished,
As a gift for evermore.

Waiting, in its age and grandeur,
For the Present now to build

What the Past with speechless longing

Left a promise unfulfilled.

Listening underneath its shadows
When the city's din is still,

And the moonlight and the starlight
Lie on river, rock, and hill ;
As a message high and holy,
Sent from dearest ones afar,
Of the kinship and the brotherhood
That linketh star to star,-

ART. V. THE ORIGIN OF ANCIENT NAMES OF COUNTRIES, CITIES, INDIVIDUALS, AND GODS.

We shall endeavor, in the following article, to show that the proper names of Greece, Italy, Asia Minor, Babylon, Egypt, Phoenicia, and Judæa, more especially the names of places and of the gods, are generally compound words containing within them the names of the sun-gods Ab, Ak, Am, Ar, As, At, El, and On.

In this inquiring age it is time that the composition of names which are associated with the legends or the history of the ancient world should receive proper attention. Before the mission of the Saviour, the more intelligent among the Romans had formed the opinion that the various "great gods" of the nations had much in common, notwithstanding the different attributes ascribed to them and the difference of their names. Hercules, Osiris, Janus, Zeus, Jupiter, and many more, were regarded as the same deity, allowing for the difference of ideas which must be expected to exist among different nations on the same subject.

It has been said that Roman polytheism has but two "great gods," Heaven and Earth,- Cœlum and Terra. In the fourth century, Ausonius treats prominent gods of several nations as the same deity under different

The Rhodian oracle declares Atys or Attis to be Adon-is, Bacch-us, and Dionusos:

"Magnum Atten placate Deum qui castus Adonis

Evius est, Largitor opum, pulcher Dionysus."

Not only is there a coincidence in the general idea which the ancients had of the deities, but often there is a very great verbal resemblance in their names. They are frequently exactly the same word.

The appellations of the gods are generally translated or explained by words of the same sound in the language of the country where the name belongs. For instance, the word Salii, the priests of Hercules, and of Mars in Italy, is usually derived from salio, "to leap" we prefer to derive it from Sol or Ausel, the sun, and compare it with the Selli mentioned in Homer, priests of Jupiter, who were also called 'EXλoi (Helloi), from El or Asel, the sun; ein, ëλn (Hele), alea or halea (aλea), and halo (in English), mean the same. We have the Etruscan Usil, and Ausel, names of the sun. Aphrodite, the Grecian name of Venus, is supposed to be formed from appós, "the foam of the sea." We think it a compound of Abar, the sun, the shining Bar of the Assyrian inscriptions, and Adad (pronounced Atad or Adat), the sun; like Adittha, the name of an ancient city on the Euphrates, and Adit-ya, the Sanskrit name of the spirits of light.

As a younger race, the Greeks would naturally borrow many ideas from the more advanced nations of Asia Minor, Palestine, Phoenicia, Egypt, and Mesopotamia; just as we are indebted to Europe for the large