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The Martyrdom of Today

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 25, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 33.

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The Martyrdom of Today

By Theodore Parker

RACKS and fagots soon waft the soul to God, stern messengers, but swift. A boy could bear that passage, the martyrdom of death. But the temptation of a long life of neglect and scorn and obloquy and shame and want and desertion by false friends, to live blameless, though blamed, cut off from human sympathy—that is the martyrdom of to-day.—Theodore Parker.