hat compasses
the furthest limit of the eternities. Of such he says: "Unto those
who follow me I will give the Life of the Ages. Beyond the tomb
they are to live on forevermore." Nor to the Jews alone, amid the
maze of those Corinthian columns, does the coming Shepherd speak.
The listening Roman soldier, wearing the armor of the empire on the
Tiber, comes within the circle of his promise. Into the face of
Quintus he looks and benignly says: "There are other sheep not of
the Jewish pasture, to whom I shall give this unending life. I
covet your great empire as my own. O soldier of the Caesars,
follow after me!"

Back 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 to Aulus the Feast of Dedication, he repeats the
words he has heard in the Temple cloister, and says in deepest
seriousness:

"Most unearthly is the Man on whom I have looked to-day. In his
speech a divine patience, kindness, and dignity combine. As for
the words he spoke, I cannot tell their moving power. The sayings
of our noblest Romans are feeble in the comparison. Never have I
heard another speak as he has done about a future world. Truly, an
unequaled Man is this new Teacher who is abroad in Judaea."

Sleep is of little consequence that night. Is the word of the
augur at Brundisium beginning to be fulfilled? In his tent Quintus
is wondering through the long hours if, among his people on the
Tiber, the Shepherd shall not find some sheep to whom he will give
the unending life.

III

CHRIST HIMSELF THE WITNESS TO IMMORTALITY

"He appeared to them alive again the third day, as the divine
prophets had foretold."--_Josephus_.

How often have men missed the sight of great historic occurrences,
in their attention to the routine of life! So it was that Quintus
did not witness the tragic events of that Passover week on which
human destiny was to turn. To Tyre on the Great Sea he had gone,
to arrange for the landing of a new quota of troops from
Brundisium. The commander at Scopus had chosen him for the
responsible mission, in token of his especial fitness. The
compliment was pleasing. But in his absence he was ever thinking
of the promise made by the Teacher in Solomon's Porch, that the
sheep who followed him should have eternal life.

Astir was all Jerusalem, when the knight returned to Scopus. It
was on the morning after the Lo