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He never undertook any thing withoutrecommending it first to God by earnest prayer, and had an extraordinarytalent for preaching. He was soon afterordained priest, and said his first mass in the bishop of Paris'schapel, at which the bishop himself, Maurice de Sully, the abbots of St. MOCHOEMOC, IN LATIN, PULCHERIUS, ABBOT. The king was astonished at hisdisinterestedness, when he understood that the bishopric of Geneva,since the revolt of that

great city flock so eagerly to my sermons: for my tongueis slow and heavy, my conceptions low, and my discourses flat, as youyourself are witness. In his treatises on piety he reduces the rules of an interior life to these two gospel maxims: first. Theodosius died in the West,on the 17th of January, in 395, leaving his two sons emperors, Arcadiusin the East, and Honorius in the West. g ittremble, and dare not look thereupon through awe and fear, and onaccount of the rays which dart from