.—How Constantine sent a Messenger and a Letter concerning Peace.
soon
as the emperor was informed of these facts, which he heard with much
sorrow of heart, considering them in the light of a calamity personally
affecting himself, he forthwith selected from the Christians in his
train one whom he well knew to be approved for the sobriety and
genuineness of his faith, and who had
before this time distinguished himself by the boldness of his religious
profession, and sent him to negotiate peace between the dissentient parties at
Alexandria. He also made him the bearer of a most needful and
appropriate letter to the original movers of the strife: and this
letter, as exhibiting a specimen of his watchful care over God’s
people, it may be well to introduce into this our narrative of his
life. Its purport was as follows.