200 RELIGION IN SCHOOL.

line sketch which Carl had drawn large on the black
surface. There was a good deal of chat under the trees
about olives and figs, and the Mount and Bethany.

Christopher Longworth. (A pale but handsome lad,
whose father is a painter.) My father has been in the
Holy Land. |

Mr, Mill, That is good. When we know people
who have travelled in Palestine, it makes the scenes of
sacred history more real to us. Perhaps you may re-
member something that he reported.

Christopher. Yes, sir. My father says he saw old olive-
trees at the spot which is thought to be Gethsemane,

Mr. Mill. A sacred spot, my dear young friends ;
though we must. not regard those places with the
superstitious veneration of the Papists and Orientals,

Carl. The modern garden of Gethsemane, as it is
called, is of small extent, being, perhaps, only a portion
of what was there in old times. The site, however,
agrees very well with all the accounts. I am told the
trees are supposed to be lineal descendants of the grove
which stood there eighteen hundred years ago.

Christopher. My father brought me an olive-branch,
carefully pressed and dried, and a folder, or paper-knife,
made of wood from the Mount of Olives,

Barry. You must bring them with you, Christopher.
_ We will not venerate them as relics, but they are
valuable as testimonials,

A little boy. Mr. Barry, may I speak? There was a