. Struggles of the early Christians. aside the imperial purple to puton the white robe of the baptized, and in that whitedress, a few hours after, he died. He was buried inthe porch of the church dedicated to the Apostles. Christians and pagans equally honored the memory°>f Constantine. His heathen subjects enrolled himamongst their deities ; at a later period the first Chris- EARLY CHRISTIANS. 147 tian Emperor was worshipped as a saint by part ofthe Christian Church. Three hundred and twenty-three years had elapsedsince Christ made his religion known to mankind; andalthough its progress ha
. Struggles of the early Christians. aside the imperial purple to puton the white robe of the baptized, and in that whitedress, a few hours after, he died. He was buried inthe porch of the church dedicated to the Apostles. Christians and pagans equally honored the memory°>f Constantine. His heathen subjects enrolled himamongst their deities ; at a later period the first Chris- EARLY CHRISTIANS. 147 tian Emperor was worshipped as a saint by part ofthe Christian Church. Three hundred and twenty-three years had elapsedsince Christ made his religion known to mankind; andalthough its progress had been apparently slow, still,looking back upon the impediments in its pathway,the obstacles it had surmounted, its steady advanceseems little less than miraculous. It had ceased toexist as a separate community; it had ascended theimperial throne; and in studying the history*of thatperiod, a change can be perceived in the condition ofmankind, which can be attributed only to the directauthority or indirect influence of
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