and of Moses delivered His people from the
violence of Pharaoh and the Egyptians, and made them pass
through the Red Sea, and ordained that they should serve Him [on
Mount Sinai], even so by means of Ulfilas did God deliver the
confessors of His only-begotten Son from the "Varbarian" land,
and cause them to cross over the Danube, and serve Him upon the
mountains [of Haemus] like his saints of old.

Ulfilas civilised as well as Christianised the Goths of Bulgaria, and
was responsible for the earliest Gothic alphabet--the Moeso-Gothic. He
translated most of the Scriptures into Gothic, leaving out of his
translation only such war stories as "the Book of Kings," judging that
these would be too exciting for his Gothic flock and would incite them
to war.

[Illustration: A SHOP WOMAN OF THE DISTRICT OF SOFIA]

After a century of peace war broke out again between the Goths and the
Roman Empire--which may now be called rather the Greek Empire--in A.D.
369. The course of the war was at first favourable to the Emperor
Valens. All the independent Goths were driven back behind the Danube
boundary, but were allowed to live there in peace. The Roman orator
Themistius, in congratulating the Emperor Valens, put on record the
extent of his achievement and of his magnanimity:

But now, along almost all the frontiers of the Empire, peace
reigns, and all the preparation for war is perfect; for the
Emperor knows that they most truly work for peace who thoroughly
prepare for war. The Danube-shore teems with fortresses, the
fortresses with soldiers, the soldiers with arms, the arms both
beautiful and terrible. Luxury is banished from the legions, but
there is an abundance of all necessary stores, so that there is
now no need for the soldier to eke out his deficient rations by
raids on the peaceful villagers. There was a time when the
legions were terrible to the provincials, and afraid of the
barbarians. Now all that is changed: they despise the barbarians
and fear the complaint of one plundered husbandman more than an
innumerable multitude of Goths.

To conclude, then, as I began. We celebrate this victory by
numbering not our slaughtered foes but our living and tamed
antagonists. If we regret to hear of the entire destruction even
of any kind of animal, if we mourn that elephants should be
disappearing from the province of Africa, lions from