The congregation have left the church, and I must close it on account of our beautiful new vessels and the heathen robbers.

I know that the brethren of Raithu have chosen you to be their elder, and that his high honor was announced to you by their messengers, for they came to see our church too and greatly admired it.

Are you going at once to settle with them or shall you keep the high-feast with us ?" "That you shall hear to-morrow," answered Paulus, who had risen from his knees, and was leaning against a pillar of the narrow, bare, penitential chamber.

"In this house dwells One of whom I would fain take counsel, and I beg of you to leave me here alone.

If you will, you can lock the door, and fetch me out later, before you go to rest for the night." "That cannot be," said the man considering, "for my wife is ill, and my house is a long way from here at the end of the town by the little gate, and I must take the key this very evening to the Senator Petrus, because his son, the architect Antonius, wants to begin the building of the new altar the first thing to-morrow morning.