The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times . UNDERGROUND PASSAGE IN ROMAN CHAPTER V. MARCUS AURELIUS, THE STOIC. HE Emperor Marcus Aurelius (161-180), in thecharacter of a persecutor, presents an anomalythat has puzzled many. To judge him by thefact that the Church suffered heavily during hisreign is to form a hopelessly false view of one of thenoblest, purest, and sweetest spirits that ever tenanteda human form. A professed philosopher, his philosophywas no tissue of pretence and pedantry, but an earnesteff
The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times . UNDERGROUND PASSAGE IN ROMAN CHAPTER V. MARCUS AURELIUS, THE STOIC. HE Emperor Marcus Aurelius (161-180), in thecharacter of a persecutor, presents an anomalythat has puzzled many. To judge him by thefact that the Church suffered heavily during hisreign is to form a hopelessly false view of one of thenoblest, purest, and sweetest spirits that ever tenanteda human form. A professed philosopher, his philosophywas no tissue of pretence and pedantry, but an earnesteffort to learn how to live and die aright. In him thepride of Stoicism was softened to humility, and its ancientharshness to tender charity. Rigorous with himself,he was forever making excuses for those he could notreform. His Meditations, written only for his own eye,contain as much wisdom and piety as any volume out-side of Holy Writ. His transparent sincerity was aproverb; few lives have shown such close agreementbetween theory and practice. Though a soldier, he hated warfare and blood-shed ; if he could, he would have abolished the hideous shows of the
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