He would have fallen a victim to his zeal, had not the Duke Godfrey de Bouillon interposed and driven back his soldiers with loud reproaches." "Where is Herman now ?" "Among his poor flock, who have lost almost all--endeavoring to procure them food and shelter, and exhorting them to patience and submission to the will of God." "How fared Stramen Castle ?" "Even worse than your own." "And the church ?" continued Gilbert.
"Was despoiled and fired." At this instant the curtain of the tent was parted again, and Father Omehr stood before them.
When informed of the fate of his church, the missionary calmly raised his eyes to heaven and repeated, in a clear, steady voice, those sublime words: "The Lord has given and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord!" But when apprised of the position of his parishioners, who must inevitably have perished from the oldest to the youngest, the old man bent his head upon his breast, and, pressing his hands to his face, wept bitterly.

He soon recovered his habitual resignation, and then, turning to Gilbert, said mournfully: "Do you see, my son, that God is _beginning_ to punish our feud ?" Immediately after his victory, Rodolph despatched messengers to the Pope to give him the intelligence, and implore him to recognize the king in the victor.
We always approach with veneration and extreme diffidence the character of this mighty man.

It is difficult, indeed, to form an adequate idea of his moral grandeur.

The better you study his views, the more you are astonished at his wisdom and fore-sight; the deeper your scrutiny of his motives, the higher your respect for his sanctity.

His was an age of transition.