(Matthew xvii, 27.) His success was justly rewarded, and to him was delegated the power of ruling the infant church.

Pisces thus displaced Aries.

The fisherman succeeded the shepherd.

The precession of the equinoxes produced a new avatar; a new sign arose in the heavens; and a new saviour was born to save mankind.
THE CONSTELLATIONS.
SIRIUS, the Dog Star .-- A bright star of the first magnitude in the mouth of the constellation Canis Major.

This is the brightest star that appears in our firmament, and is supposed by some to be the nearest.
LEPUS .-- One of the southern constellations, placed near Orion, according to Grecian fable, because it was one of the animals which he hunted.
ERIDANUS .-- A winding southern constellation, near the Cetus, containing the bright star Achemar.
CETUS, the Whale .-- A southern constellation, and one of the forty-eight old asterisms.