THE tongue spoken by Christ was the theme for discussion at a recent conference of Baptist ministers in this city, eliciting a variety of views, one speaker even holding that since Jesus was able, in the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, to hold conversation with a Syro-Phœnician woman, the Irish tongue, being of Phœnician descent, might be a dialect of the language in which the Saviour taught and spoke. This conclusion certainly has the merit of novelty, but we cannot imagine that scholars will generally adopt it, since the connection between the Erse and the Phœnician is quite too remote for serious consideration. Those who have traveled in Switzerland will recall the wonderful facility with which, in the border cantons, even children pass from French to German and Italian, speaking all three languages with equal ease. There was a similar general acquaintance with Latin, Greek, and Aramaic in Palestine at the time of Christ. Latin was the language of official life, Greek the medium of polite intercourse, the Aramaic the tongue of the common people, and the pure Hebrew had become in His day virtually a dead language. It is not impossible that our Saviour was familiar with Latin, and it is certain, from his quotations from the Septuagint and from the fact that Greek was spoken in towns as near his home as Cæsarea and Tiberias, that he was acquainted with Greek. Some of his quotations, too, refer directly to the Hebrew Scriptures, making clear that he had at least an equal knowledge of Hebrew. But the Syriac or west-Aramaic, the tongue of the common people, was doubtless the language in which He thought and commonly spoke, though he had sufficient acquaintance with the other current tongues to speak with Pilate, to be at home in Tiberias, and to have a delicate sense of the precise force of terms in the Hebrew Scriptures.—Christian at Work.