The Fathers of the Church, by the Authors of 'Tales of Kirkbeck'. (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: S. IGNATIUS, BISHOP AND MARTYR. "As one by one, stars on the eastern space Come forth, whila daylight fades, And greet each other to their heavenly place; Thus, while death's deepening shades Darken around thy steps in stranger lands, Sweet awful memories of thine own S. John Wake round thee: martyr'd Peter beckoning stands, And stirs again the Spirit's benison Given through his hands: upon the self-same road, Lo, the bright footsteps of the death-bound Paul! Thy soul is fann'd to burning hardihood; We hear in thee the Bridegroom's warning call, And full of glowing life Thy dying accents fall." The Cathedral. S. IGNATIUS, BISHOP AND MARTYR. CHAPTER I. "Athome, abroad, in peace, in war, Thy God shall thee defend, Conduct thee through life's pilgrimage, Safe to thy journey's end." Psalm cxxi. Tradition Concerning The Childhood Of S. Ignatius? His Training Under S. John?Ordained Ry The AposTles?Appointed Bishop Op Antioch?His Episcopal Cares?Appears Refore Trajan?Is Condemned To Death?Begins His Journey To Rome?Seasons For The Martyrs Reing Behoved From Their Homes? Ignatius Reaches Seleucia?Rurns And Zozimus?S. Ignatius Arrives At Smyrna?S. Polycarp?S. IgnaTius Writes To The Ephesians?To The Magneslans? To The Trallians?To The Roiians. It has been said: " Judge none blessed before his death" (Ecclus. xi. 28); but when the combat of life is over, and having " striven. for the truth unto death, the Lord hath fought for him,"1 then knowing that " the souls of the- i Ecclns. iv. 28. righteous are in the Hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them,"1 we may joy fearlessly over such, that their day of rest and rejoicing is come. So in the Primitive Church, we find much thought and attention given to the closing scene of t...