minded to take him at his word.

Then said Antony with an angry voice, "Wilt thou cast him out,
Eulogius? He who remembers that he made him, will not cast him out.
If thou cast him out, he will find a better friend than thee. God
will choose some one who will take him up when he is cast away."
Eulogius was terrified at these words, and held his peace.

Then went Antony to the sick man, and shouted at him, "Thou
elephantiac, foul with mud and dirt, not worthy of the third heaven,
wilt thou not stop shouting blasphemies against God? Dost thou not
know that he who ministers to thee is Christ? How darest thou say
such things against Christ?" And he bade Eulogius and the sick man
go back to their cell, and live in peace, and never part more. Both
went back, and, after forty days, Eulogius died, and the sick man
shortly after, "altogether whole in spirit."



HILARION



I would gladly, did space allow, give more biographies from among
those of the Egyptian hermits: but it seems best, having shown the
reader Antony as the father of Egyptian monachism, to go on to his
great pupil Hilarion, the father of monachism in Palestine. His
life stands written at length by St. Jerome, who himself died a monk
at Bethlehem; and is composed happily in a less ambitious and less
rugged style than that of Paul, not without elements of beauty, even