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Quartus autem, qui Mango Can baptizabatur, permansitque fidelis Christianus, qui etiam misso magno exercitu cum fratre suo Hallaon in partes Arabiae et Aegypti mandauit destrui in toto Mahometi superstitionem, et terram poni in manibus Christianorum. Et fratre procedente, accepit rumores de fratris sui Imperatoris morte inopinata, quapropter et redijt negotio imperfecto.
Into this hideous condition of things the Gospel comes, and silently flings its clasping tendrils over the wide gaps, and binds the crumbling structure of human society with a new bond, real and living. We know well enough that that was so, but we are helped to apprehend it by seeing, as it were, the very process going on before our eyes, in this message from 'Quartus a brother.
'At backsword, sword and dagger, sword and buckler, single falchion and case of falchions, mine old challenge still holds good against any comer, save only my brother Quartus, who plays as well as I do, but hath an extra half-inch in reach which gives him the vantage. 'I studied sword-play under Signor Contarini of Paris, said Lord Grey. 'Who was your master?
Yes, though our Christ was betrayed by one of his disciples, the name of the traitor I cannot recall at this moment " "Judas, lord, who hanged himself," answered Quartus, wondering a little in his soul how it was possible to forget that name. "Oh, yes Judas! I thank thee," said Chilo. And they went on some time in silence.
Let us live so that each act, if recorded, would shine with some modest ray of true light like brother Quartus' greeting, and let us seek that, like him, all else about us being forgotten, position, talents, wealth, buried in the dust, we may be remembered, if we are remembered at all, by such a biography as is condensed into these three words.
What should it be but the story of One who gave Himself for the whole world, who binds men into a unity because of His common relation to them all, and through whom the great proclamation can be made: 'There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female, for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. Brother Quartus' message, like some tiny flower above-ground which tells of a spreading root beneath, is a modest witness to that mighty revolution, and presupposes the preaching of a Saviour in whom he and his unseen friends in Rome are one.
This was a fatall stroak, to me a heavy, For my remissnes wilbe loaden with it. Bring in the Boy; ile to the State instantly; Examine all the wounds and keep the knives; The Boy fast too, may be he knowes some circumstance. Boy. O that I never knew againe. Prov. In with it. Actus Quartus. Enter Captaine and Soldiers. Cap. Are the Horses left where I appointed 'em, And all the Soldiers ready?
He knew nobody in the Roman Church, and nobody knew him, but he wished to stretch out his hand to them, and to feel, as it were, the pressure of their fingers in his palm. That is a pattern for us. Let me suggest another thing. Quartus was a Corinthian. The Corinthian Church was remarkable for its quarrellings and dissensions.
Also, that no man take no battles in a wrongful quarrel for no law, nor for no world's goods. And every year were they sworn at the high feast of Pentecost. Explicit the Wedding of King Arthur. Sequitur quartus liber.
Well will it be for us if the summary of our lives be something like that of his! 'Quartus a brother. ROMANS xvi. 23. I am afraid very few of us read often, or with much interest, those long lists of names at the end of Paul's letters. And yet there are plenty of lessons in them, if anybody will look at them lovingly and carefully.
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