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l^a^ion ^ploWer. 
A beautiful running plant, with 
curious blue flowers.—It is supposed to 
represent the instruments of the Cruci¬ 
fixion: hence its name. 
“Art thou a type of beauty, or of power, 
Of sweet enjoyment, or disastrous sin? 
For each thy name denoteth, Passion-flower! 
Oh, no! thy pure corolla’s depth within 
We trace a holier symbol; yea, a sign 
’Twixt God and man; a record of that hour 
When the expiatory act divine 
Cancelled that curse which was our mortal dower. 
It is the Cross!" 
—Sir Aubrey de Vere. 
Religious Zeal. 
f HERE is a three-fold apostolate of zeal, which extends more or less to 
all the faithful. 
St. Peter reminds them that they are “a priestly people,” and the 
Holy Ghost says, by the voice of the Wise Man: “The Lord has trusted 
to thee thy brother Who can calculate the good effected by unconse¬ 
crated missionaries in this three-fold apostolate ? 
Who can estimate all the good produced by the words and admoni¬ 
tions of pious fathers and mothers, of husbands and wives, and of the many 
fervent Christians, all trying in their own sphere to spread the true faith, 
to lead back the straying sheep to the fold, to enlighten all those who “sit 
