The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times . ^ hope which supported these martyrs is setforth in the legend of Dorothea of Antioch, on which Milman has built a , tender, and delicately reared like Perpetua of Carthage, she was tormentedfor an hour on an engine like the rack of later days, and then given over to twoof her former friends, recent apostates. Instead of their persuading her to sacri-fice, she prevailed on them to return to Christ and to suffer for Him. After a. THEATRE OF MAKCELLUS, ROME. secon
The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times . ^ hope which supported these martyrs is setforth in the legend of Dorothea of Antioch, on which Milman has built a , tender, and delicately reared like Perpetua of Carthage, she was tormentedfor an hour on an engine like the rack of later days, and then given over to twoof her former friends, recent apostates. Instead of their persuading her to sacri-fice, she prevailed on them to return to Christ and to suffer for Him. After a. THEATRE OF MAKCELLUS, ROME. second contest, when life was ebbing fast, she was ordered to the block; but firstthe governor asked her if she would beg forgiveness of the gods. She said, Ipray for your forgiveness, and I will pray for it in the land whither I am what sort of land is that ? he inquired, in the spirit of Pilates question,;( What is truth ? But she answered seriously : A land of perpetual light andof everlasting spring. There is no night, no winter, no sorrow. There is theriver of the water of life, clear as crystal, and the tree of life that yields its fruit•every month. There are unfading flowers, and a paradise of joy. i8o THE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIANITY. The pagans were capable of any brutality. By way of jest, one of her oldcompanions said to the dying girl, And when you come to that land, send me some of those flowers. Shelooked him in the eye, andsaid—they were her lastwords—I will. A fewminutes later, as they weregoing, a wonderfully beauti-ful boy ca
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