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 place this order of ideas occupies in the hortatory writings of the Fathers, and in the legends of the saints, must be familiar to all who have any knowledge of this department of literature."

Perhaps the most permanently mischievous consequence of primitive asceticism was that which has established over the greater part of Christendom the rule of clerical celibacy.

That opinion of the present Bishop of Salisbury will commend itself as just to every student of mediæval history. In connection with this subject the reader may be referred to the learned discussion in chapter iv. of the Bishop's "Ministry of Grace." The chapter is entitled, "Christian Asceticism and the Celibacy of the Clergy," and is filled with curious learning and weighty judgments.