NEWBOLD— THE SYRIAC DIALOGUE "SOCRATES." Ill 



for their worship was popularly known as their " temple," a great 

 flood which hydraulic engineers had striven in vain to control car- 

 ried masses of debris up to the doors of that temple. The poet 

 takes the catastrophe, in which more than two thousand persons 

 perished, as a symbol of the triumphal progress of the Gospel which 

 sweeps through the world, overcoming all obstacles, and brings its 

 captives into the Church. 



Unfv'ersity of Pennsylvania, 

 April 3, 1918. 



