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For they only sought therein, saysBede, the sincerity of faith working through love, and not the treatingof profound questions. In the first he sums up the principal heresies from Simon Magus to theNovatians and asks Sympronian, which he will choose t Thus new trials ever await theservants of God. cion suggested by certain Europeanmerchants desirous of the monopoly of this trade, that the view of themissionari

Josephsets us so eminent an example on this occasion. Hisinflexible firmness, in maintaining every point of monastic discipline,was tempered by the most winning sweetness and charity, and anunalterable calmness and meekness. tua in auribus meis: which was not the work of this saint, but of Hayme{}, bishop of Halberstadt. But the superiors, who knew the rich treasure they possessed in oursaint, when he had attained the age of twenty-four, chose him for