The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times . mitian, about A. D. 94,we have few particulars. Heencouraged the vile tribe of in-formers, banished or executedmany persons of rank on thecharge (as Gibbon relates) ofatheism and Jewish manners,and had two grandsons or neph-ews of St. Jude, and relativesof Jesus, brought from Palestineto Rome and examined. Theyproved to be plain farmers, andtestified that the Kingdom theirMaster had taught them to ex-pect was not of this world. Thetyrants jealous fears were prob-ably assua
The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times . mitian, about A. D. 94,we have few particulars. Heencouraged the vile tribe of in-formers, banished or executedmany persons of rank on thecharge (as Gibbon relates) ofatheism and Jewish manners,and had two grandsons or neph-ews of St. Jude, and relativesof Jesus, brought from Palestineto Rome and examined. Theyproved to be plain farmers, andtestified that the Kingdom theirMaster had taught them to ex-pect was not of this world. Thetyrants jealous fears were prob-ably assuaged on discoveringthat the royal race of David hadno designs upon his throne. During this reign St. Lukethe Evangelist is said to havebeen hanged to an olive-tree in Greece, at the age of eighty-four; and St. John,banished to the isle of Patmos, saw the visions which he recorded in the closinghook of the New Testament. Special interest attaches to the fate of one who ismentioned in the message to the Church in Pergamos, a city in Mysia, the north-western province of Asia Minor: Thou holdest fast My name, and hast not. ST BARTHOLOMEW. THE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIANITY. IT denied My faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was My faithful martyr,who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth (Revelation ii. 13). The legendis that this Antipas was enclosed in a brazen ox or bull, like that of Phalaris, thetyrant of Agrigentum in Sicily, B. C. 552. This metallic image being hollow, afire was built beneath it, and the victim thus slowly roasted. Timothy, whom St. Paul called his own son in the faith, and to whom headdressed two Epistles, became bishop of Ephesus, and was there stoned, probablyabout A. D. 95, though some say earlier. At Ravenna in Italy Ursinius, a physician, refused to sacrifice to the godsand was sentenced. Under terror of death his faith was failing, when Vitalus, anative of Milan, who had come to Ravenna in the suit of the magistrate Paulinus,thus addressed him : My
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