The priest stood all confused, and looked as pale as death; The bread and wine fell from his hands, and he did gasp for breath. "Bring me my horse!" his reverence cried; "this is a cursèd place!" "Begone! begone!" the dame replied; "you are a cursèd race!" Her husband sat confounded, and not one word could say. At last he spoke--"My dear," said he, "the priest has run away; Such mummery and nonsense can never bear the light; Apostate Rome I must denounce, and quit it I will quite." HERESIES are views discordant to the truths of God. STAND BACK. A gentleman spending his holidays in Scotland was fishing for trout. He had fishing-tackle and appliances of the best description. He threw out his bait all the morning, but caught nothing. Towards afternoon he espied a little ragged urchin, with tackle of the most primitive order, nipping the fish out of the water with marvellous rapidity. Amazed, he watched the lad for a while, and then went and asked him if he could explain the reason why he was so successful, in spite of his meagre outfit, while the expensive apparatus could catch nothing. The boy promptly replied, "The fish will no bite, sir, as lang as ye dinna _keep yersel' oot of sight_." Well has it been said that "fishers of men need not wonder at their want of success, if they do not keep themselves out of sight,' and uplift the brazen serpent on the Gospel pole, while studiously keeping themselves hidden behind the pole." HIS TITLE DEEDS. The deacon of a Church lay dying. He had been a successful merchant, and he was about leaving this world to give an account of his stewardship. When he was near his end, he asked his wife to bring him his title-deeds. The lady went to his private drawer, and drew out some musty papers relating to his property, which she took to him. As soon as he saw them, he said-- "No, no; that is not what I mean. Bring me the New Testament." It was brought, and he had it opened at Romans viii. 33--"Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?" He shortly after closed his eyes in death, his finger continuing to rest on the verse. OUR BIBLE CLASS. ELISHA AND THE SHUNAMMITE. (2 KINGS iv. 8-37; viii. 1-6.) As the Prophet Elisha carried God's messages, and did His appointed work among the Israelites, he passed through Shunem.