The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times . ds cut off, and thatrivers of their blood would flow from the multitude of slaughters. They feared that their new master would invent newkinds of torments,compared with whichmutilation, the sword,the fire, drowning,being buried alive,would appear butslight pains. For thepreceding emperorshad employed againstthem all these sortsof punishment. It is needless togive the list of eventhe more noted mar-tyrs, or to sicken thereader with the variedrecord of cruelty; buta few inst
The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times . ds cut off, and thatrivers of their blood would flow from the multitude of slaughters. They feared that their new master would invent newkinds of torments,compared with whichmutilation, the sword,the fire, drowning,being buried alive,would appear butslight pains. For thepreceding emperorshad employed againstthem all these sortsof punishment. It is needless togive the list of eventhe more noted mar-tyrs, or to sicken thereader with the variedrecord of cruelty; buta few instances offidelity and patiencemay be cited. Ro-manus, a deacon ofCsesarea, chanced toenter Antioch whenmany apostates werethronging to thetemples to the sight his spiritarose within him, andhe loudly rebukedtheir weakness anddesertion. He wasseized at once, andbeing fastened to thestake, asked boldly, Where is the fire for me? Galerius, who was present,was enraged at this, and ordered his tongue to be cut out; he offered it withouta murmur. He was put in prison, kept there long under torments, and at last. A CATRENE woman. THE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIANITY. *7S strangled. A boy of twenty stood unbound, with, bis bands extended in prayer,,exposed to bears and leopards, wbicb would not touch him. A bull, urged witha hot iron, turned on the tormentors and tossed them. At length the brave dispatched. Adauctus, a man of noble birth and high office, suffered bravelyin Rome. A Phrygian town, almost entirely Christian, was thought worthy of theattention ofan army. Thepeople, refus-ing to sacri-fice, ran to thechurch; thesoldiers set iton fire, and allperished to-gether. Threeladies of Anti-och, otherwisedefenselessagainst theinsults of thesoldiers,sprang intothe sea; twoothers werethrown thereby the perse-cutors. In Pon-tus, on thesouth shoreof the Euxineor Black sea,sharp reedswere thrustunder thefinger-nails ofsom e, and melted lead poured on the triumphal arch of s
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