Constantinople : and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor . on with any are the houses of their ecclesiastics prohibited from this social enjoyment. TheGreek secular priests are allowed to marry: their religion does not inhibit gaiety,though it prescribes many fasts: they have often a numerous family, and the priestshouse has nothing of that ascetic and austere observance that marks the celibacy ofthe Latin church. THE ACROPOLIS AT SARDIS. ASIA MINOR. Sardis, one of the seven churches of the Apocalypse, was anciently the capital of therich kingdom of Lydia. Here was th
Constantinople : and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor . on with any are the houses of their ecclesiastics prohibited from this social enjoyment. TheGreek secular priests are allowed to marry: their religion does not inhibit gaiety,though it prescribes many fasts: they have often a numerous family, and the priestshouse has nothing of that ascetic and austere observance that marks the celibacy ofthe Latin church. THE ACROPOLIS AT SARDIS. ASIA MINOR. Sardis, one of the seven churches of the Apocalypse, was anciently the capital of therich kingdom of Lydia. Here was the court of the splendid Croesus, the contemporaryof Cyrus the Great, to which were invited men distinguished by worth and it was that iEsop composed those apologues, which at this day form the rudimentsof our education; and here Solon gave that instructive lesson to the monarch on histhrone, that riches and prosperity are no protection against the instability of fortune—a truth which the unhappy prince had soon reason bitterly to remember. This city,. WITH THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA MINOR. 67 like others, underwent many vicissitudes. It fell into the hands of Cyrus and thePersians, five hundred and fifty years before the Christian era. It was burnt by theAthenians half a century afterwards; was the occasion of drawing down the resentmentof the Great King; led the Persians to invade Europe; and was the cause of all thecelebrated events that followed. It was totally destroyed by an earthquake in the reignof Tiberius, and about the time of the crucifixion of our Lord. Immediately after, therenovated city became distinguished among the seven Christian lights of the was one of those which the prophet, in the Apocalypse, reproves for declension fromthe Christian faith, and who thus exhorts them: Be watchful, and strengthen the thingswhich remain, that are ready to die; for I have not found thy works perfect before God:They despised the admonition; and whe
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