176 I GO A -FISHING. 



" Omnes eodem cogimur : omnium 

 Versatur urna ; serius, ocius 

 Sors exitura, et nos in asternum 

 Exilium impositura cymbae." 



But the Christian fathers loved to ring the changes on 

 the word. 



Bernard wrote : " Quid dabis nobis Domine ? Pacem, 

 inquit, do vobis, pacem meam relinqui vobis. Sufficit 

 mihi Domine ! Gratanter suscipio quod relinquis. Pa- 

 cem enim volo, pacem desidero nee aliquid amplius quae- 

 ro. Cui non sufficit pax, non sufficis tu Domine, qui es 

 pax vera, pax nostra." 



Augustine said : " Pax est serenitas mentis, tranquilitas 

 animi, simplicitas cordis, vinculum amoris, consortium ca- 

 ritatis." 



Jerome, writing of how hard it is to attain, said : " Pax 

 querenda est ut bella fugiamus, nee sufficiat earn querere 

 nisi inventam fugientem que omni studio persequamur." 



Isidorus described it : " Pax est plebis sanitas, gloria 

 sacerdotis, patriae letitia, et terror hostium visibilium et 

 invisibilium." 



Ambrose said : " Pax est dux at vitam eternam inveni- 

 endam et habendam." 



Thus they all spoke of the peace that blesses the soul 

 here, but of the peace that is there they were never weary 

 of talking and writing, in ever-varying phrases of joyful 

 expectancy. Bernard of Clugny, the monk who contrast- 

 ed this world's sins with that world's glories, summed it 

 all up in the lines, 



" Pax sine crimine, pax sine turbine, pax sine rixa 

 Meta laboribus, atque tumultibus anchora fixa." 



Who that has studied the numerous epitaphs of the 



