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Superstitions of he Day.-ss What means, for instance, that strange, vast, unsubstantial fiabric, rising suddenly like the gcnii-built palaces of the Arabian Nights, in the heart of Boston, Consider well the Temple of the Second Advent-its throngillg thousands, with wild, awe-stricken faces turned to- ward the cast, like Mussulmen to their Kel- ba, in hourly expectation of the down-rush- ing of the fiery mystery of the Apocalypse, waiting with trembling eagerness and 'un- pleasant horror to behold with the eye of flesh tremendous pageant before which the elements shall melt. and the Heavens flee away-the baptism of a world in fire In what age or quarter of the world has the supernatural in man taken more decided and definite shape than this , Look at the nightly gatherings of the Disciples of the Newness'--gray, thought-worn manhood, and young, dreamy beauty, catching inspira- ton from the Orphic utterance of the modern prophecy, and making glad the weary pre- sent with sunny glimpses of "a transcendental millennium Look at magnetism, with its fearfully suggestive phenomena, cnacting dai- | ly in our midst marveis which throw far into shadow the simple witchcraft of our ances- tors, What are those but present manifesto lions of the unearhly, and the superhUman bursting up, through their crust, of conven- tional and commonplace existence'

 Nor Is this all. There is scarcely SUI perstition of the past three centuries which has not at this very time more or less holt upon individual minds among us.'

 The Erit One-s. Failing in their effort: to solve the dark problem of the origin O evil, men fall back on the idea ofa malignant

 being-the antagonism of good. Of this mysterious and dreadful personifcation, we find ourselves constrained to speak with tha i awe and reverence which are always asso ! eiated with underlined power and the ability to harm The devil,' says an old writer