If there was one thing more than any other on which the pagan Romans prided themselves, it was their strict sense of justice. In their conquest of the world this trait is continually evidenced in their harsh methods of overcoming opposition on the one hand, and on the other, their religious toleration and general magnanimity toward the vanquished. So selfwise were they in this regard that Roman converts to Christianity were slow to believe that even Christ could give them a higher ideal. St. Paul, therefore, reproves their vanity: " Be not wise," he says, " in your own conceits, for worldly wisdom is folly with God, and what is foolishness with the world is wisdom with God. Worldly justice is: evil for evil, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, but the law of God teaches us to be at peace with all men, to leave revenge to the Lord, to overcome evil with good, to love our enemies, to do good to them that hate us and to pray for them that persecute us."
Brethren, in the third chapter of his epistle to the Galatians, St. Paul says: "As long as the heir is a child he differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all, but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed by the father." Not less obstinate than the Roman were the Galatian converts, who, being Jewish, clung tenaciously to the observances of the synagogue. Accordingly St. Paul chides them, arguing that as the Old Law bears the same relation to the New that childhood does to manhood, therefore for Christians to continue in Jewish practices is as ridiculous as for a grown man to find amuse-
