les armoiries: armoriai bearings

Sometimes instead of a coat-of-arms, inscriptions are cast upon the bell. The inscription upon the great bell of the cathedral at Schaffhausen, also, that of the Church of Arts near Lucerne, is Vivos voco, mortuos plango, fulgura frango. I call the living, I mourn the dead, I break the lightnings. The last part of the inscription refers to an old belief that the undulations of the air caused by the ringing of a bell broke the electric fluid of a thundtrcloud. It was also thought that pestilence was in like manner driven off, and some old inscriptions contain the words, pestem fugo, 1 drive off pestilence.

22. et donnons-lui le baptême. Bells hâve been so long associated in various ways with the ritual of the church that they hâve acquired a kind of sacred character. The baptism of bells dates back to the eighth century and is still practised in the Catholic church.

" Now gather we ail and christen it duly : what name so fit as Concordia? For as symbol of concord shall it reign 'twixt earth and heaven, and

* Speak to Time and to Eternity,*

vocal like a star, with celestial music, and herald of ail human changes. Lo, with rope and pulley it soars aloft from earth into the sphère of sound: be its first message Peace!"