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Referring to an affecting incident in Origen’s history, when soon after his excommunication for having sacrificed to the idols, he was requested, and in a constrained manner, to preach at Jerusalem. He opened his Bible, Psalm 1.16. “To the wicked God says, why do you preach my law?” and he was so overcome by the remembrance of his sin that he closed the book with tears, and melted the whole congregation in sympathy with his sorrow—Clark’s Marrow of Eccles. Hist, where his own most striking expressions of grief and contrition are given on the occasion. Pp. 20-23.