Produced by Al Haines. ARIUS THE LIBYAN _A ROMANCE_ _OF THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH_ BY NATHAN CHAPMAN KOUNS NEW YORK AND LONDON D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1914 COPYRIGHT BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1883. Printed in the United States of America CONTENTS. BOOK I. CHAPTER I. Locus in Quo II. To Us a Child is Born: to Us a Son is Given III. How Men lived in the Kingdom of Heaven IV. Fine Training for a Christian Man V. A Pagan Hermit, Old and Gray VI. Flotson of the Middle Sea VII. Theckla finds One God and heareth of Another VIII. Who is Hapi? IX. The Democracy of Faith X. Faith and Philosophy XI. "For the Work’s Sake" XII. The One Thing Needful XIII. The Net Result of Law XIV. The Blind Receive their Sight XV. Love and Parting XVI. Before the Temple of Serapis XVII. Crucified unto the World BOOK II. I. "His Most Catholic Majesty" II. A Naval Question III. The Politics of Religion IV. The Prophecy of Gaius V. A Born Ecclesiastic VI. The One Great Battle of Christendom! VII. The Subversion of the Primitive Church VIII. The Abdication of Constantine IX. "I have no Superior but Christ" X. The Communion of the Saints XI. One Jot that passed from the Law XII. An Imperial Repentance XIII. Well done, Good and Faithful Servant ARIUS THE LIBYAN. BOOK I. CHAPTER I. LOCUS IN QUO. A long time ago, Etearchus, King of Axus, in Crete, married a second wife (as many better men have also done), and she persuaded him to get rid of Phronime, the pretty daughter of his former spouse. Thereupon Etearchus agreed with a merchant of Thera that he would take Phronime away in his ship and let her down into the sea. The merchant, true to the letter of his bargain, did let her down into the sea, but true also to that natural tenderness toward a pretty woman which inspires the breast of every man who is fit for anything in this world, he quickly drew her up again by a rope which he had fastened around her lissome waist for that purpose, and conveyed her safely enough to Thera.