The Divine Origin of Christianity Indicated By Its Historical Effects
The Divine Origin of Christianity Indicated By Its Historical Effects
Storrs, Richard S. (Richard Salter), 1821-1900
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For the love of their Divine Master, " he adds, *' for the cause which they believed to be true, men, and even weak girls, endured these things, when one word would have freed them from their sufferings. "* Eusebius's History, especially in the eighth book and the book of the Martyrs, in- dividualizes the solemn and awful history with a pathos which all intervening centuries have not exhausted. It was simply impossible that such amazing exhibitions should appear, of spiritual supremacy quenchin...g pain and conquering death, in the midst of vices, cruelties, obscenities, amorous odes, decaying religions, and pallid philosophies, without pro- ducing a vast impression on an ever-enlarging circle of minds. These persons, it was known, had been concerned in no con- spiracy, had been sentenced for no want of civic fidelity, for no refusal even of the military service. Yet, as one of their histo- rians said, ' the Syrias reeked with the odor of their corpses, and the waters of the Rhone failed to wash from Gaul their blood.
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