ABEYANCE THE FOURTH.

The less said on such a dreary matter the better..If any one had written during former abeyances,,I should at least have a precedent. But happilyfor all other historians of the order, they wroteafter it was restored; so in the full of glory..The nearer to the abeyance, the nearer to therecent triumph. If the Nile was to avoid beingever seen small, so neither should this gloriousorder he exhibited in her lowest estate and troubles;until she had got triumphantly out of them.

To he practically useful, is the atmosphere out ofwhich she cannot possibly exist; deprived of thatessential quality, she never should display herself,or imagine she can stand an instant. It would he