Chapter II: Appendix

Foreword to Appendix 209 A. Concerning Paul’s Missionary Tours and Disputed Points 221 B. Old Documents and Modern Views on the Herod Family 242 C. The Significance of the Fall of Jerusalem and the Breaking Up 253 of the Roman Empire D. The Disputes as to Thecla in Legend and History 264 E. Concerning the Early Gnostics and Apollos and Apollonius and 271 John Finale 283

_BE GLAD_

_1_

_“Be glad! Be glad!” I sing!_
_The sun rolls round the ring_
_Of law! His beams outfling_
_Like birds of song on wing._

_2_

_Be glad the sun is bright—_
_Be glad the sun is light—_
_Be glad the law is right—_
_Tho’ truth we learn through pain—_
_Be glad the darkest night_
_Rolls round to light again._

_3_

_Our sin is but a sleep_
_Out from the vasty deep_
_Of Death’s eternal Keep_
_For God, to Whom we creep._

_4_

_Breast forward! Shout the cry_
_Of Joy, of Life, on high!_
_To sadness give the lie!_
_Ten-thousand spheres give voice_
_The rivers racing by—_
_The chorus join—Rejoice!_

_5_

_Mistake not carcass pains—_
_They are your growing gains_
_Of Soul on Self, ere wanes_
_The Sun; and through the lanes_
_Of the Far Golden West_
_You pass to your long rest,_
_O Warrior Soul; where shade_
_And dark by that sword blade_
_Of Light are cleft from you_
_And never more pursue:_
_The shadows cleft and reft_
_By Him_
_Who guards the Tree of Life_
_From snatching hands of strife_
_Elohim!_
_And you pass to your rest_
_In the all Golden West_
_Where Sun sinks never more_
_And Light far to the fore_
_Sings with ten-thousand spheres—_
_Give voice, Rejoice, Rejoice—_
_Again, I say, Rejoice!_
_A. C. L._

_The_
QUENCHLESS LIGHT