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ANCIENT CHRISTIAN ZEAL

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 28, 1857

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 10, No. 4.

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ANCIENT CHRISTIAN ZEAL.

Good old Chrysostom, in his epistle to Cyriacus, said :
"Should the empress determine to banish me, let her banish me; 'the earth is the Lord's and thefullness thereof.' If she will cast me into the sea, let her cast me into the sea; I will remember Jonah. If she will throw me into a burning fiery furnace; the three children were cast there before me. If she will throw me to the wild beasts; I will remember that Daniel was in the den of lions. If she will condemn me to be stoned, I shall be the associate of Stephen, the proto-martyr. If she will have me beheaded, the Baptist has submitted to the same punishment. If she will take away my substance; naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return to it."