SORTES BIBLICAE.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—Even those who with good ground demand the revision of the Lectionary cannot have failed of late to be impressed with the curious appropriateness of the passages of Scripture appointed to be read in churches. What better epitaph for the flower of our immortal youth can be found than the words of the Epistle for the Day of St. Michael and All Angels, in whioh it is said of those who overcame the Devil and all his angels that "they loved not their lives unto the death" (Revelation xii. 11), recalling the phrase in the Song of Deborah and Barak (Judges v. 18): " Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field." The words that immediately follow thow quoted above from Revelation are not less applicable to the situation : "Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the Devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time."—I am, Sir, &c., X.
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