[12] Motto of Hortense Beauharnais.
[13] Ben Jonson.
[14] The late Rev. George A. Baxter, D. D.
[15] New Orleans.
PASSING UNDER THE ROD.
“It was the custom of the Jews to select the tenth of their sheep after this manner. The lambs were separated from their dams, and enclosed in a sheepcote, with only one narrow way out: the dams were at the entrance. On opening the gate, the lambs hastened to join their dams, and a man placed at the entrance with a rod dipped in ochre, touched every tenth lamb, and so marked it with his rod, saying—‘LET THIS BE HOLY.’”
“And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.”—Ezk. xx: 37.
I saw the young bride, in her beauty and pride,
Bedeck’d in her snowy array;
And the bright flush of joy mantled high on her cheek,