ing is certainly derived from their relics
upon those who devoutly touch them. The next day the emperor Arcadius,
attended by his court and guards, arrived, and the soldiers having laid
aside their arms, and the emperor his diadem, he paid his devotions
before the shrine. After his departure St. Chrysostom preached again,
(p. 336.)

St. Chrysostom was removed to Constantinople in 397. The fifteen (or, if
with some editors we include the prologue, sixteen) homilies On the
Epistle to the Philippians, (t. 11, p. 189,) were preached in that
capital of the empire. The moral instructions turn mostly on alms and
riches. The order which prudence prescribes in the distribution of alms,
he explains, (Hom. 1, t. 11, p. 201,) and condemns too anxious an
inquiry and suspicion of imposture in the poor, as contrary to Christian
simplicity and charity, affirming that none are so frequently imposed
upon by cheat as the most severe inquirers. Prudence and caution he
allows to be necessary ingredients of alms, in which those whose wants
are most pressing, or who are most deserving, ought to be first
considered. Hom. 3, p. 215, he lays it down as a principle, that
catechumens who die without baptism, and penitents without absolution,
"are excluded heaven with the damned;" which we are to understand,
unless they were purified by perfect contrition joined with a desire of
the sacrament, as St. Ambrose, St. {272} Austin, and all the fathers and
councils declare. St. Chrysostom adds, that it is a wholesome ordinance
of the apostles in favor of the faithful departed, to commemorate them
in the adorable mysteries: for how is it possible God should be deaf to
our prayers for them, at a time when all the people stand with stretched
forth hands with the priests, in presence of the most adorable
sacrifice? But the catechumens are deprived of this comfort, though not
of all succor, for alms may be given for them, from which they receive
some relief or mitigation of their pains. Though such not dying within
the exterior pale of the church cannot be commemorated in its public
suffrages and sacrifices; yet if by desire they were interiorly its
members, and by charity united to Christ its head, they may be benefited
by private suffrages which particulars may offer for them. This is the
meaning of this holy doctor. Exhorting the faithful to live in perpetual
fear of the dangers with which we are surrounded, (Hom. 8, in Ephes. t.
11,) he says, "A builder o