Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 319, 24 September 1909 — Page 3
THE IlICHUOKD PALLADIUM AND SCVTELEGUAU, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER . 24, 1909.
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THE LITTLE STORY: : OF BROTHER PAUL
It was Easter ere In the little monastery of St. Like, just beyond the border of Northumbrla. Four brothers made up this quiet, industrious household, a brotherhood of letters as well as of religion. It was In the old time, when printing was unknown and there were monasteries. wereln men spent a whole lifetime In copying the " Holly Scriptures upon strong parchment in beautiful letters Illumined by choice handwork in gold and silver colors. . The monastery of St. Luke was one of the most famous. Father John, the head of the little household, was full of years and learning. He had traveled far in his day, and had visited the great houses in Southern Europe where a hundred monks sat In one room copying the gospels wbile one read slowly the sacred words. But his house beside the northern ea had no ambition to make many copies of the Holy Word. Rather, he hoped it might be said that the monastery of St Luke produced the finest and most neatly faultless copies of the Bcriptures in all Christendom. And so . the brotherhood had been carefully selected. There was Brother Stephen, a man in middle life, whose German accent betrayed his fatherland. No monk could excel Stephen In the regularity with which he wrote, transcribing the words he had learned to love. His letters never needed erasures. His words were never misspelled or misplaced. With slow, methodical toil he wrote hour after hour and his prayers were blended with the words he wrote that they might reach the hearts of pagans and heathen and win them to the Lord Christ. Good Brother Stephen had it to his credit that two bibles which he had -copied were in the possession of royalty, and were read on holy days in hearing of those who held the mightiest scepters in Europe. Stephen was p. great comfort to his superior. Father John. Then there was Brother Philip. Young and ruddy was the Saxon brother. A Danish warship had touched
upon the British coast one day and had snatched two fair-haired children from their mother's protection and had sailed away to unknown southern seas. Sold in a slave market in Italy, the girl, in resisting the insults of a Moorish buyer, received a blow from which she died after a few hours of agony. The boy, fired to desperation by his grief, had fought with his captors and was rescued more dead than. alive, by an old priest, who took the lad home and nursed him back to life. The delirium effaced the boy's memory (or awhile and the good priest called him Philip. And Philip was his name when he entered a monastery, and developed a wonderful art for painting. . Philip would have enjoyed painting the scenery of nature, but in that time It was thought fit only to paint pictures of the saints and .of the Madonna, or to illumine the" text of Holy Writ with bright initials and rich margins. So Philip turned to this last, and his fame became so great that Father John secured him as a member of the little brotherhood of St. Luke. And here, once more in the land of his birth, Philip, lived with the brothers, illustrating the beautiful texts of Brother Stephen with splendid initial letters bearing figures of the Virgin and of tjie blessed apostles. V Father John delighted in these two brothers, Stephen and Philip. They were ever at work. exceDt sometimes
Pkllln wnulri Inrtlr thrnnjrh the narrow
window of the monastery and watch the sea shimmer beneath the westerftig sun, and his brush would droo from his hand and his eyes would fill with tears. Then he would draw a picture of a sweet, childish face against a sea-blue field, and in the silence of
the monastery he would kiss the child face he had drawn. '
1 Then there was another. Brother Paul. No one quite knew why Panl had ever been admitted to the studious
monastery of St Luke. He was dif
ferent from all the rest. On one high
shelf in the library was a half-finished
copy of the New Testament. Years of
patient toll had been spent upon it.
and one day Brother Paul was working
a design of an eagle, at the conclusion
of St John's Gospel, when an accident occurred, and the blue and gold was spilled through all the pages of the
precious volume and It was ruined beyond repair.
ilt must have been blundering carelMisness. Father John said. , And
Brother Paul was sentenced to a very long and heavy penance. To be sure it was told In the village of Innesfel, that Brother Paul had watched at the bedside of poor Gurth, the blind beggar, who was dying of the fever, and that the brother had had no sleep for seven nights before the terrible accident happened to the book. But Fath-
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er John said that the .brotherhood ol St Luke existed for copying manuscripts and not for nursing sick beggars...... . ' Then Brother Paul had long been an offender. Many a time it had happened that v when the other - brothers were diligently copying the secret! texts. Brother Paul, had been absent,
cultivating the 'garden of the old wid
ow who lived by the edge of the Innes
fel woods. Or he was helping to s
cure the hay for Farmer Cedric, who
had rheumatics, keeping him in th
chimney-corner half a year. His farm
would have utterly gone to waste ha
it not been for the visits of the sturdj
Brother Paul, who could delve and ditch and harvest as well as the be3t
Saxon churl in the shire.
Indeed, whatever standing Brother Paul had inside the monastery, his
standing in the village and throug! 1 . -... A .
me wnoie 1 countryside was Dy no
means doubtful. The people held him
in greater reverence than the parish
priest, and "Father John of the Mbnas tery," - as the villagers called him
could not count upon one half the af
fection which continually went out to
Brother Paul.
Eldorman Beowulph pointed to his bright son of fourteen summers and told how Brothel Paul rescued the lad from the mad waters of the river
Alnes, the year of the great freshet
And Jemmy, the wieaver, told of that
hard winter when his house was snow
bound and he himself sick with a fc
ver. And the children were crying for
bread, and not a crumb In the house
when Brother Paul broke a palh
through the forest and in spite of the
terrible storm, found his way with
bread for the weaver and his children
And so one could go on for a day
picking up tales of the goodness which
the simple village folk had received
from Brother Paul.
But all this counted but little inside
the monastery of St Luke. There
Brother Paul was surely the least of all the little brotherhood, with more duties omitted and more tasks unperformed than all the other brothers twice over. More than once Father
John had prohibited Brother Paul from leaving his cell for long periods, under pain of serious penalty. And It was suspected that more than once Brother
Paul had broken his arrest by nightly
visits of help and mercy to the suffer
ing poor in the village.
So when it happened during the next
to the last week, in Lent that Brother Paul fell sick of lung fever, and when he grew steadily worse In spite of all
remedial herbs in the corner closet of
the refectory, and when, about sunset of Good Friday the good brother closed
his eyes forever upon earthly scenes,
it was a matter of less regret in the monastery of St. Luke than in the vil-
lege of Innesfel.
Saturday sufficed for the .simple preparations for the burial, and at
sunset the body of Paul was laid upon
a bench in the chapel of themonastery
while the brothers sang the requiem
for a brother gone to rest They left
him there, to await the burial on
Monday.
Father John slept, as became the su
perior of a monastic house, in the cell
just beyond the chapel. From his
plain couch he could see the lamp burning before the little white altar. And the pious monk awaited sleep, watching the lamp and thinking who
should be admitted to . the place of
Brother Paul, who had died.
To his surprise, suddenly the little lamp blazed wondrously. The chapel was in a glow. What could it mean?
And he saw one gloriously vested aa
cendlng the altar steps. The 'brilliant light ; shone ' on. . And the stranger turned a wondrous face upon r the
startled monk, the countenance of the
Archangel Gabriel.
"I. bring,", the angel said, "a crown
ol-exceeding richness for the man
among all men who in his life has best
transcribed the Gospels of our adora
ble Lord. For such a one there waits an endless benediction!" It was one
blissful moment for the superior of St
Luke's. Heaven, as well as earth, had recognized the matchless work of those
tireless copyists. Father John and Brother Stephen and Brother Philip.
It was bliss indeed!
But Gabriel began to speak again: "Here is the home of one who made the truest copies of God's Word. No other manuscript was ever so fair as his.; For he, Brother Paul, wrote the gospel of our Lord in his life. . With words of love and tender care he wrote his days full of gentle ministries and made the nights shine with help and cheer. Hereafter let it be known that
the best copy of God's Word is a llv
ing copy, and they are the best copyists who write the Holy Gospels in their
hearts and illumine them with Christly
lives." .'
'And then the superior of St Luke's beheld two angels raise the form of
Brother Paul from the bench on which it had been laid, and bear it through
the lifted roof of the chapel along the
pathway of the stars.
And long afterward it wonld be said
of one who lived a blameless life. "He
Is writing the gospel of Brother Pani." C. E. S. in the Epworth Herald.
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produced "The Wife's Peril" last night to a large and appreciative audience. The cast was carefully cast and the piece was beautifully mounted. 'New
songs, motion pictures, together with "The . Wife's : Peril" afforded . the patrons of the Phillips a very amusing evening. The same play this evening.
"The Keith Stock Co." The Keith Stock company broke all
records at the Gennett last night when
they played The Peddler.' Early in
the evening: the S. R. O. sicn. was hang
out and many people were disappointed at not seeing the very excellent performance which Mr. Keith gave in the title role. "The Right of Way. At the Gennett on Thursday. Sept 30 The Right of Way," an adaptation by Eugene Presbrer from Sir Gilbert Parker's novel of rhe same name, win be presented. It la understood that Mr. Presbrey has departed rather widely from the lines of the original story, but that is a matter of very little consequence. . . Everybody knows, that there most
of necessity te an essential imposition in any pretense that a play is fairly representative of the book from which it professes to be taken. The better
the original story the less satisfactory, as an epitome of it, is the dramatic version likely to be. In all cases of this - kind the imrortant Question is not how much of the parent novel has the adapter been able to preserve, but what sort of a play haa he been able to construct out of his selected fragments. ; ' ., Evidently, there is a . considerable amount of good melodramatic material in The Right of Way" and In the hands of such callable players as P. Aug. Anderson. Hallett Thompson and Miss Arleen Hackeit. it is easy to believe that an interesting performance will be given which will be augmented by the original production. y- ' ' '-Mary Jane's Pa."" The wanderlust of dramatic production seems to have cropped out In the ever alert Henry W. Savage, when
he gave the public "Mary Jane's Pa
by Edith Enia. for from ail accounts.
it is an unusual play, as unusual as the character of Hiram Perkins, a tramp printer, wh'ch Henry E. Dliey will play at the Gennett, Tuesday. October 5.
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