CONTENTS, CHAPTER I. PACE BIRTH AND INFAAKCY AD. 340-341 . . . . 9 CHAPTER 11. YOUTH .4ND hlAXHOOD A. D. 341-374 . . . 16 CHrlPTER 111. THE EPISCOPATE A. D. 374 . . . . . . . 20 CHAPTER IV. DIFFICULTIES AND DANGERS AD. 374 . . . 24 CHAPTER V. DE ATII OF VALENTIKIAN I. A. D. 374-375 . . 28 CHAPTER VI. THEODOSIUS A. D. 378-380 . . . . G ST. Ahl BROSE, CHAPTER VII. PAGE SYXODS OF AQUILEIA AND ROhiE A. D. 380-383 36 CHAPTER VIII. AUGUSTINE A. D. 383-38 j . . . . . . . 44 CHAPTER IX. CONVLICT WITH THE ARIANS A. D. 385-386 . 49 CHAPTER X. CHURCII - BUILDING. - MLIXIIIPUS AND JUSTINA A. D. 386-387 . . . . . . . . . 61 CHAPTER XI. THEODOSIUS A. D. 388 . . . . . . . . 70 CHAPTER XII. CHA1 IEK XIII. EUGENIUS A. D. 392-393 . . . . . . . . 93 CONTENTS. 7 CHAPTER XIV. PAGE VICTORY AND DEATH A. D. 394-335 . . . TOO CHAPTER XV. CHAPTER XVI. AMBROSE AS POET AND MUSICIAN . . . . . I16 CHAPTER XVII. ST. AhIRROSE AS A THEOLOGIAN. . . . . . I 2 2 CHAPTER xvrrX. ST. AhlBROSE AS AN INTERPRETER OF SCRIPTURE 141 CHXP 1 E. R XIX. AMRROSE AS A PASTOR . ., . ., . . . 196 C H A P T E R I. - 7 BIRTH AND INFANCl-m 1.1 is the year A. D. 340. Twenty-eight years have passed since Constantine the Great saw, as he declnrcd, in vision the symbol of the Crucified, and was biddcn to hope for victory, temporal and eternal, through Him alone twenty-eight years since the tyrant Naxentius lost his powcr and his life at the Milvian bridge twenty-seven sincc Constantines second edict, dated not from Romc, but from Milan, released the Christians from the fear of persecution, and launched the Cross on an unjrnpeded career of conquest. It is fifteen years since the niemotable time mhcn the three hundred and eighteen nt Xicaaaffirmed, in thc happy word Consubstnntial, thc truth of the Incarnation of the Eternnl Son, vety Cod of very God, nude very man four since the unhappy heresiarch Arius perished at Constantinople by a strange and sudden death seven since the busy brain of another cncmy of the faith, not heretic, but scoffer, Iamblichus, of Chalcis in Syria once the kingdon1 of gerod Agrippa IL, was stilled in the grave three sincc the great Emperor himself deceased, and left his empire to a triad of unworthy and incq ables ons and but a few days since Constantine, thc eldest of them, grasping at thc dominions of Constans, thc youngest, was slain by his partisans-a dcath so well deserved, and yet so melancholy in its circumstances, that we doubt whether to call its infliction an act of stern justice, or a miserable fratricide. Julius I. is Bishop of Rome thc initre of Constantinople is still worn by the pious Alexander, thc aged opponent of Arius. Euscbius, the historian and courtly confessor of Constantine the Great, is sinking into his grave at Czsarea in Palestine. Thc great St. Basil and his brother Gregory, afterwards named of Nyssa, are children of cleven and nine a another Caesarca in Cappadocia. At the samc Czsarea his friend, Gregory cf Nnzianzus, now a youth of fifteen, has been receiving his early education, and is now reparing, at Euscbiuss Casarea, for his finishing studies nt Alexandria and Athens. St. Epi Aanius, now thirty years old, is studying and praying t his monastery of Ad, in Ialcstine, and St. Ephracr the Syrian is si nilnrlye ngaged at hisibis. St. Cyril I ns lately been ordained presbyter at Jerusalen...