Excerpts from the Book 'An Easter Disciple':

... It was as if the Eastern world had become a vast parliament chamber, wherein the nations were proclaiming their different doctrines as to a future ...
... broke the quiet of the sunlit afternoon. That lithesome, cultivated, serious-minded young knight, Quintus Cornelius Benignus, is standing on the height ...
... to espouse that swarthy maiden of the Nile. The reward of love cannot be the experience of which the augur spoke at Brundisium.. Not so, says Quintus ...
... for men always and everywhere have the trader's passion. In the narrow streets of Jerusalem they see the stir of many activities. The workman is hammering ...
... Quintus himself shall see this Christus and hear his message. If so, his will be in very truth a momentous quest. IN SOLOMON'S PORCH. Give me new ...
... now, in the closing period of his stay with mortals, he was more frequently foretelling the life to come. Like a footworn traveler drawing near the ...
... he has been all his days to the magnificence of the Roman architecture, he yields in willing admiration to the splendors of the Solomonic porch. Then-he ...
... to the camp on Scopus the soldier goes, moved to his deepest soul. Impossible it seems to longer worship the Roman gods. When he has described ...
... Christus came forth again. Astounding, Quintus interrupts in a whirl of words but did he make any promise of another life for men, before he ...
... his blessing. Our number is our evidence it cannot be possible that all of us have been deceived. It is surely he, O Roman soldier, unless the senses ...
... watch over the destinies of men, guide his feet aright.. Clearly defined are the alternatives before the Roman soldier. On the one hand are his ancestral ...
... of the Latin cult, and whose nation can only feel disdain for a Galilaean who proposes to revolutionize the ages. The words of the augur at Brundisium ...
... were to gather in Galilee with those from that upper district. Once more would their Lord show himself to all who believed on him, and would speak with ...
... once more, before he returns to the upper life. So they shall have a glad memory of his face, and shall be strengthened in their coming tribulations ...
... his future. His Master's countenance had seemed to him more wonderful than any face which the gifted Phidias had ever carved in stone. But never in ...
... he has now risen from the grave, after his torture on a cross, to prove his doctrine true. I now believe in him, as the interpreter of the future life. ...
... All things are changed for me. The sunlight is on the hills. It is her open confession. Lucretia is thenceforth enrolled among the Roman saints ...
... the city of the Caesars. One rare privilege the Roman knight then envoys. In his hired house, near the Pretorian camp, Paul speaks without interruption ...
... he is like the ripened Chian clusters that await the vintager in the autumn days. The friends of Quintus have gone before as the old century wanes, ...
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