while the Gentiles, on the other hand, despised the Jews for their observance of the obsolete customs of the Old Law. Hence St. Paul's epistle to them is primarily a plea for Christian unity, wherein he recommends the study of the Scriptures as the great unifier of Christianity. And taking his own epistle as an example, especially the fourteenth and fifteenth chapters, I know no more appropriate reading for the two great divisions of Christianity at the present day. " But thou," he says to one party, " why judgest thou thy brother; or thou," to the other, " why dost thou despise thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgement-seat of Christ." From St. Paul and from the Scriptures generally we learn a Christlike spirit of forbearance, so that the most erring Judas receives from us not the Pharisaical: "What is that to us; do thou see to it," but rather a hearty greeting as friend and brother. And it is characteristic of the foresightedness of Leo XIII. that he gives this power of the Scriptures for Christian unity its true value. In one of his latest encyclicals there is a logical sequence wherein, beginning with the subject nearest his heart — the working man, the labor question — he advocates a union of Christendom as the only means of solving that problem, and recommends the study of the Scriptures as the surest method of bringing disunited Christians together.
" What things soever were written," says St. Paul, "were written for our instruction." In this age of the writing mania and cheap literature, there are books innumerable, not, unfortunately, all written for
