this idea all their conceptions of him clustered; toward it all their hopes were made to bend, and with it all prophecy was made to agree. Of him under this form they dreamed; with this image before them they looked into the prophetic revelations; for him in this character they longed as the long-promised hope of Israel. The grand object of his mission having been thus conceived to be temporal, it is only natural that their notions of him, in every detail, took a carnal and earthly form. Thus, then, the ideal Messiah of this class was only a mighty HERO. If he was a law-giver it was to give laws to the conquered; if he was a teacher it was to teach the conquered submission and obedience to his laws; if he was a king it was to be king of the world on the Jewish throne; if he was a priest it was of a Jewish priesthood; in short, if he was a Saviour it was a Saviour of the Jewish nation and of the Jewish religion. In this heroic, royal character he stood in the eye of the Jews in large and mighty relief against all earthly power. Here, then, was an ideal Christ-but, alas! with what disappointment were those whose cenceptions created this picture doomed to meet, for this ideal never became incarnate. True, he was a hero, but not of this world; and this was not the central, around which all his other attributes should cluster.

The humble, pious class of Jesus had a different ideal of the promised and expected Messiah. What this ideal was, would be difficult in one sentence to say. Perhaps we might say it was the living embodiment of a perfect Being. He was all that heart could wish in all the varying circumstances and in all the multiform wants of life. He would be

"A sovereign balm for every wound."

As heaven is now to our hopes, so was the coming Messiah to the
hopes of the devout Israel. Heaven lies before the eye of our
faith as a full and perfect portion, adapted to every want. To the
poor riches, to the stranger home, to the exile an inheritance, and
to the weary rest! So Christ was to them all in all.
To the op-
pressed a deliverer, to the ignorant a teacher, to the sick a physi-
cian, to the sinner an atonement, to the blind sight, to the lame
feet, to the dead life, and to all that came to him salvation! The
feeling and the conceptions of the entire devout portion of the
Jewish believers finds voice and expression in the enraptured de-
claration of the wisest among them. Ask them what their beloved
is more than another beloved, and they will with one heart and
one voice reply: My beloved is the chiefest among ten thousand;
he is altogether lovely!

Truth, it must not however be forgotten, has a history. Life manifests itself in a process. The rising of the sun of righteousness is first in a gleam, then in a twilight, then a glimmer, rising higher and higher, and shining more and more unto the perfect day. The

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picture is not transferred to the canvass by one touch. God through successive revelations gradually created in the Jewish mind the conception of this perfect ideal, which afterwards became incarnate. He taught them as fast as they could bear, hence he chose sundry times and divers manners. How interesting is the sun of righteousness, rising gradually higher and higher in the firmament of the Jewish cloudy and shadowy dispensation. As, after his incarnation, it was necessary that his character should be developed, from the babe in the manger on through all the intervening stages of human life, so it seems to have been necessary that the true idea of him should have a development from the first promise in Paradise through all the stages of typical, ceremonial, and prophetic representations until he lay incarnate as the divine babe in the manger at Bethlehem.

THE TURF SHALL BE MY FRAGRANT SHRINE.

яY THOMAS MOORE.

THE turf shall be my fragrant shrine,
My temple, Lord, that arch of thine;
My censer's breath the mountain airs,
And silent thoughts my only prayers.

My choir shall be the moonlit waves,
When murmuring homeward to their caves,
Or when the stillness of the sea,
Even more than music, breathes of thee !

I'll seek, by day, some glade unknown,
And light and silence, like thy throne;
And the pale stars shall be at night,
The only eyes that watch my rite.

Thy heav'n, on which 'tis bliss to look,
Shall be my pure and shining book,
Where I shall read, in words of flame,
The glories of thy wond'rous name.

I'll read thy anger in the rack

That clouds awhile the day-beams track;
Thy mercy in the azure blue

Of sunny brightness breaking through !

There's nothing bright, above, below,
From flowers that bloom to stars that glow,
But in its light my soul can see
Some feature of thy Deity.

There's nothing dark, below, above,
But in its gloom I trace thy love,
And meekly wait that moment, when
Thy touch shall turn all bright again!

BAPTISMAL NAMES OF GERMANS, WITH THEIR
SIGNIFICATIONS.

BY I. D. RUPP.

THE following, if presented to your numerous young readers, may prove to them both interesting and instructive. Allow me to say to them, that I have copied from the original in the archives of the State upwards of twenty thousand names of German immigrants who landed at Philadelphia prior to 1776. These names, with the names of ships in which they sailed, the names of the captains of vessels, whence they sailed, and the time of arrival in America, with other interesting notices, will form part of the appendix to the History of German Immigrants. It is confidently hoped, that thousands of the descendants of those immigrants will be gratified, when the history appears in print, to be able more readily to trace their genealogy, and ascertain with certainty the time when their ancestors arrived at Philadelphia.

The names in italics exhibit the German orthography; the others, in Roman, the English; then follows the meaning or signification of names, and usual abbreviations.

Abraham, father of many nations.
Adam, earthly man, red.
Adolph, a noble helper.
Albertus, nobly born, of noble
birth-usually written Albert,
occasionally Albrecht.
Alexander, one who assists men,
a male helper.
Anastasius, one who is recover-
ing, a convalescent.
Andreas, Andrew, strong, one
who is stout, manly.
Anton, Anthony, inestimable,
priceless.

Arnoldus, Arnold, a hero of

honor, an honorable hero. Augustus, noble, high, lofty, ele

vated, sublime, exalted. Bartholomaeus, Bartholomew, a son who suspends the waters, a martial, valiant son-sometimes written Bartel. Balthasar, council of war, courtmartial-variously abbreviated, Balthos, Baltzer, Baldis.

Benedictus, Benedict, blessed

occurs abbreviated Beni. Bernhard, Bernard, a strong, robust child.

Berthold or Berchtold, stately or grand age-sometimes written Berdolf, Berdolt.

Bertram, magnificent hero, or
grand hero.

Benjamin, son of the right hand,
son of fortune.
Blasius, Blase, royal one, splen-
did and magnificent.
Burchard, one who is strong, one
that is energetic.
Clement, one who is benign, in-
dulgent, kind, benevolent-
occurs several times, variously
spelled Clemin, Clemenz.
Christian, a follower of Christ-
sometimes written Christel,
Christly.

Christopher, a bearer of Christ
-of various orthography,
Christoffel, Christoph, Stoffel.