MESSENGER

a thoroughbred horze, | ord which Ake prise into the United States | oth from abont 1788, and from which | tha most of the celebrated American trotters | att derive their descent. bod MESSIAH. (1) A Hebrew word equir-/ the alent to the Greek ‘“' Christos,” the! gen Anointed One. Tho word denotes, in| are the Old Testament, the Great Prophet; J} whom the Jews expected to bo sent by | whi God to raise their nation to a state of| whi political and spiritua! domination. (2)) var An Oratorio by Handel, first performed | The in 1742. Itis hard to say whether this, or | fart Mendelesohn’s “‘ Blijab,” ranks as the! as | greatest oratorio. ore [s. 212]