o, it was with no little surprise I found myself lately
accused of want of truth, because I have followed great authorities in
attributing to Christians of the middle of the third century what is
certainly to be found in the fourth,--devotions, representations, and
doctrines, declaratory of the high dignity of the Blessed Virgin. If I had
left out all mention of these, I should have been simply untrue to my idea
and apprehension of Primitive Christianity. To what positive and certain
facts do I run counter in so doing, even granting that I am indulging my
imagination? But I have allowed myself no such indulgence; I gave good
reasons long ago, in my "Letter to Dr. Pusey" (pp. 53-76), for what I
believe on this matter and for what I have in "Callista" described.

CONTENTS.

CHAP. PAGE
I. SICCA VENERIA 1
II. CHRISTIANITY IN SICCA 14
III. AGELLIUS IN HIS COTTAGE 25
IV. JUBA 30
V. JUCUNDUS AT SUPPER 39
VI. GOTHS AND CHRISTIANS 51
VII. PERSECUTION IN THE OFFING 64
VIII. THE NEW GENERATION 80
IX. JUCUNDUS BAITS HIS TRAP 92
X. THE DIVINE CALLISTA 111
XI. CALLISTA'S PREACHING, AND WHAT CAME OF IT 122
XII. A DEATH 135
XIII. AND RESURRECTION 145
XIV. A SMALL CLOUD 159
XV. A VISITATION 168
XVI. WORSE AND WORSE 178
XVII. CHRISTIANOS AD LEONES 189
XVIII. AGELLIUS FLITS 199
XIX. A PASSAGE OF ARMS 212
XX. HE SHALL NOT LOSE HIS REWARD 226
XXI. STARTLING RUMOURS 235
XXII. JUCUNDUS PROPOUNDS HIS VIEW OF THE SITUATION 239
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