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Ambrose was the Bishop of Milan. He was 

 chosen to this office by the popular voice in a. d. 

 374, when he was thirty-four years old, and oc- 

 cupied the position until a. d. 390. His influence 

 during his life-time was most beneficial, and his 

 writings have helped instruct many, in all ages 

 since. His bold, unswerving devotion to the right 

 was illustrated in his forbidding the emperor The- 

 odosius to enter a church until he had repented 

 of, and made some reparation for, the crime of 

 permitting the slaughter of some of his subjects. 

 The emperor yielded at length, and came as a 

 penitent to the house of God. Ambrose is be- 

 lieved to have written the Te Deum, and to have 

 remoulded the music of the Church, introducing 

 those simple melodies, now called Gregorian, but 

 which are thought to be the same as were used in 

 the Jewish Church from the days of David. 



Chrysostom was the great preacher of the early 

 centuries, eloquent to that degree, that he was 

 called "the golden mouthed." He was made 

 Bishop of Constantinople, about a. d. 397, when 

 he was fifty years old. His history is almost a 

 romance, so full is it of interesting details. For 

 years, almost daily, in his church, would enrapt 

 congregations listen to him. Sometimes his 

 invectives against sin would lead to his being per- 

 secuted, but when delivered fmrn peril he would 



