Only A Rose.

ge bowed his head and fast the streaming tears jn torrents coursed the pale and furrowed cheek , As disappointment crushed his last faint hope , And death seemed waiting at the vine-clad

door . Alas ! that holy creeds will sever friends ! That charity is dumb when sect step in , Aud love is dead outside the narrow pale Which circumscribes a duty to belief 1 Behold the picture ! Here a stricken

man Dying of hunger at the stranger ' s door Where plenty is , and yet a crust refused For this alone—he kneels not at a shrine Which others hold the true and better one . Faint on the floor the weary jiilgrim sinks , As one low sentence trembles on his lips

, Iu words of magie yet familiar tongue . From out his scrip a symbol now he brings , Which bears a rose of pure and spotless white , And pressing this upon his bleeding lips He falls exhausted upon the cottage floor .

Ah ! wondrous change ! a kindlier voice he hears , A helping hand supports his fainting form , A brother kneels , HOPE bids his sinking faith revive . While CHARITY steps forth commanding him to live .

Know ye this tie that binds all creeds in one ? This BOSE that holds as brothers all mankind 1 Guard well ! let precept into practice run l ' o show the world how charity may bind . Nem Albany , Indiana .

Our Archaeological Corner.

Our Archaeological Corner .

O RDEYNANOE AKTICUWS AND CONSTITUCIONES ordeyned and graunted by the WORSHYPEULL MAISTRES and WARDETNES in the Worship of the Bretherhed of SAYNT LOYE att the Fest of * ster with alle the hole company of the

CRAFTE OP BLAKSMYTHES who assemble hi SEYNT THOMAS of Acres and thence to the GREY FRERES in London . Pounded and ordeyned atte the Fest of Ester 1134—12 Henry VI . [ Liber 3 More . 1418—1438 . f . 455 . ( 1435 )] .

In the worship of almyghtte Gode oure Lady and all the holi company of hevone and in the worship of Seynt Loye atte the fest of Ester hi the yer of Kyng Henry the vj" 10 after the Conqueste the xijIe The Worshypfull Maistres and Wardeynes with alle the hole company of the Crafte of

Blaksmythes of London bathe ordeyned and graunted to the servantes of the seyd Crafte that they shul come in to the brethered of the sayd Saynt Loye as hit was of olde tyme and thei to kepe trewelie and deweli al the ordynance artieiilis and

constituciones the whiche is ordeyned be al the worthi eomjiani of the seyd Crafte . Firste they bjm accorded and graunted be the seyd company that every servant syngulerly slial pay a quarter ij d . to his Bretherhed and everi suster j cl . And if

ther be eny newe cliant will come into the Bretherhed to be a brother he shal pay for his yncomyng ij s . Allso they byu acorded hennesfortheward that if hit soo be that ony strangere

other alyant come to London to have a servyse hi the Crafte he shalbe reseyved in to the Crafte to serve ij wokes and after that he to make his covenant iij yer , he to have for his saleri be yer xl s . And whanne the seyd servant shal make his

covenant thanne at that tyme shal be the wardeyne the wheche is asyned be the yere that he may here witnesse of the covenant and thet the seyd wardeyne- may reherce to the seyd servant al the governance of the Crafte he forto treweli and deweli to

kepe hem . Also they byn acorded that the seyd servantes schal not doo no maner thyng the wheche that perteyneth to the seyd Crafte and of here Bretherhed of articules constitucionys and ordinances withouten

thet they have to conseyll of the same wardeyne thet is chosen to be here govemour opon the pejuie of xiij s . iiij cl . Also they byn acorded that ther schal no servant of the seyde Ciafte susteyne ne socotir noo neweinan that conieth newe to