History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . n the walls ofthe Temple of Bacchus, twenty feet above the ground, the largest stones ever usedin any building. False worship censed here under by Rev. E. B. Boycr which involved sorcery, magic and immorality were suppressedby law. But any person who has seen at first hand, or even inpicture, the present-day ruins of heathen temples along the Nile 21 DETERIORATION AND DIVISION OF THE CHURCH (see cut of
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . n the walls ofthe Temple of Bacchus, twenty feet above the ground, the largest stones ever usedin any building. False worship censed here under by Rev. E. B. Boycr which involved sorcery, magic and immorality were suppressedby law. But any person who has seen at first hand, or even inpicture, the present-day ruins of heathen temples along the Nile 21 DETERIORATION AND DIVISION OF THE CHURCH (see cut of Temple at Luxor, page 39), at Baalbec, in Greece,and Italy, will understand that the change to the new faithwould be bitterly contested. Julian, Emperor 361-363, led thelast effort to re-enthrone Jupiter and Athena and their lesserkin to the heavens. He also set the Jews to rebuild thetemple at Jerusalem. The workmen were driven off by flames,thought to be miraculously kindled, coming out of the schools were forbidden and divisions brevity of his reign saved the Church. Gratian, Em-peror 375-383, openly opposed the ancient heathenism. He. STATUETTE OF ATHENA (MINERVA) IN THE ATHENS MUSEUM A miniature copy by Pheidias of his mammoth statue which stood in the Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens. refused to create a new high priest, and took away the specialrights and means of support of the others. Theodosius (379-395) began to order heathen temples destroyed and the adherentspersecuted. The tide had turned fully, at last. Heathen ritesfinally ceased in the city of Rome when captured by Alaric, 410,the temples being destroyed and the families of wealth and influ-ence that had supported them being scattered. Justinian (527-565) closed the last great temples in the Empire, those of Isis22 THE EMPIRE DITIDED at Philae, Egypt, built 350 , and of Amnion in the LibyanDesert; and the last great heathen school, the new Platonic, atAthens, 529. But worship of
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