THE NEW SAVIOUR’S CATHEDRAL AT MOSCOW At the festival of the coronation of the Czar Alexander 111. of Russia, in Moscow, the beautiful new Cathedral, which was be gun in 1817 by the order of Alexander I. as a memento of the defeat of the French in 1812, is to be consecrated. The imposing structure is now almost finished, and shows a magnificent cathedral with five domes. The outside walls are decorated with haut reliefs, by Baron Klodt, showing allegorical representations of scenes from the different Russian wars and pictures of those saints upon whose days the various battles were fought. The .interior of this grand building is decorated with splendid paintings by the brush of some of the best modern artists. For instance, the gigantic picture “Lord God Sabaoth,” of which the principal figure is seven rods high, and which is hung in the Central Dome ,has been executed by Pro fessor Markow ; 44 The Lord’s Supper,” by Siemiraelsky ; 44 The Birth of Christ,” by Werescliagin, and so on. These paintings and the sculptures in the Cathedral have cost one and a half million of roubles, while the whole colossal building exceeds the sum of twenty million roubles. The most note worthy characteristic about the structure is that it has been built almost entirely from Russian marble, foreign stone having been used to a very small extent. For the robes of the officiating clergy at the Czar’s coro nation and at the consecration of this new Saviour’s Cathedral (as it is to be named) 180,000 roubles have been expended. ESSENCE OF ALL FAITHS. When truth comes, it must speak by its own authority. There is no outside evidence greater than it. There is nothing that can more convince of its truthfulness than the truth itself. If we give to this life of ours only a material interpretation—such an interpre tation as thousands practically do give,— then the entire mechanism of things is an in explicable monotony. A peevish sensitiveness to the sayings and doings of others indicates real poverty of soul, or miserable timidity, or else a spirit which is mastered by the body, and lies at the mercy of diseased and jangling nerves. Homeris the seminary of all other institu tions. There are the roots of public pros perity, the foundations of the State, the germs of the Church. 