407, in about the fifty-fourth year of his age, and the ninth after his episcopal consecration.

Thus perished he of the Golden Mouth-a mouth which one might almost say was never opened save for the glory of Him Who had endowed it with such matchless eloquence. Words of ours can add but little to the testimony of his life, and a highly wrought eulogium would seem ill-placed.

Thus saints, that seem to die in earth's rude strife,
Only win double life:

They have but left our weary ways

To live in memory here; in heaven by love and praise.

Little remains now to be added; the saint was borne-a victorious champion over the world and sin-to his tomb; and laid by the side of St. Basiliscus. Great grief was felt by all true Christians when it was known that the world had lost so illustrious a man and so faithful a bishop; and Innocent, bishop of Rome, excommunicated Arcadius and Eudoxia as the wicked instruments of his loss. Honorius, emperor of the West, likewise reproached his brother with his weak submission to his proud wife, and Arcadius, always easy to be swayed either for good or evil, expressed deep contrition, and confessing his guilt with due penitence to Innocent, he thereupon gave him absolution.

His persecutors did not long enjoy the fruits of their triumph. Whether God's hand chastises in this world the sins of the wicked, or whether in some cases, He leaves it to the next world, we will not pronounce; but it is remarkable that Eudoxia, who was the principal instrument of all St. Chrysostom's sufferings, and eventually of his death, only three months afterwards died in child-birth. Theophilus also, who was so wickedly associated with Eudoxia, is said to have repented, and to have done homage to St. Chrysostom's memory, before his death.

Theodosius the younger, a godson of Chrysostom's, removed the remains of his sainted sponsor to Constantinople, and accompanied by his sisters proceeded to the church of St. Irene, where the coffin was placed, and kneeling beside it, bent his head thereon, deeply lamenting the wrong done to the holy man by his parents. The coffin was lowered into a vault in front of the holy Altar by episcopal hands. This was on January 27, 438.

ST. JEROME.

The peaceful star of Bethlehem
Came o'er thy solitude,

The radiance of that heavenly gem

Lit up thy sterner mood:

Yea, like a star in murky wells,

Cheering the bed where darkness dwells,

The images of earth its happier light imbued.

The thought of the Eternal Child

Upon thy cloistral cell

Must sure have cast an influence mild,

And, like an holy spell,

Have peopled that fair eastern night

With dreams meet for an eremite

Beside that cradle poor bidding the world farewell.

THE CATHEDRAL.

LIFE OF ST. JEROME.

CHAPTER I.

From his cradle

He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one,
Exceeding wise, fair spoken and persuading :
Lofty and sour to them that loved him not,

But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.

HENRY VIII. ACT IV. SCENE 2.

CHARACTER OF ST. JEROME-HIS BIRTH-EDUCATION-HIS TRAVELS-IS BAPTISED-GOES TO AQUILEIA-VISITS THE EAST-APOLLINARIS-RETIRES TO THE DESERT OF CHALCIS -HIS INTERNAL CONFLICTS-STUDIES HEBREW AND CHALDEE-ABANDONS HIS CLASSIC STUDIES.

It must be acknowledged that in turning to the history of St. Jerome, we do not find the same gratification and delight as in tracing the saintly, meek, though stedfast career of St. Athanasius, St. Chrysostom, or the other Fathers of the Church, about whom we have been inquiring. There is something in his untempered austerity, and the harshness