 | Joseph Hammond - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 608
...the like. Nero, Decius, Aurelian, Diocletian — what tragedies are connected with these names! Yet "the blood of the martyrs has been the seed of the Church," and in the reign of Constantino the empire awoke to find itself Christian. Persecution only evolved... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...utterances of the human mind. The Church has been at her greatest when led to prison and to judgment. The blood of the martyrs has been the seed of the Church. CHAPTER XIII. Christ's Coil for JHen. "I must work the works of Him that sent me, while it is day:... | |
 | Great thoughts - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 742
...evidences; and faith and zeal have been the result of enquiry. The wrath of man has praised God, and the blood of the martyrs has been the seed of the Church. — Jay. M ART YK. To Die and to Live like a It is easy to die like a martyr : the great thing is to... | |
 | William Henry Platt - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 352
...have been established except by brute force." Lawyer. — Yes; by brute force against its believers. The blood of the martyrs has been the seed of the Church. To believe was to be persecuted. Paul said that he had been " in stripes above measure, in prisons... | |
 | William Jackson - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 410
...destruction. But to us the result has become wide, deep, firm, beyond all possibility of anticipation. The blood of the Martyrs has been the seed of the Church; and many a fair harvest-field has grown golden through its vitalizing force. That blood has also germinated... | |
 | 1886 - عدد الصفحات: 592
...her decapitation, but as with the hydra of fable, ten heads have sprouted where one has fallen, and "the blood of the martyrs has been the seed of the church." Ordered in many a cruel realm to stretch herself on the pyre for extinction of being, she has always... | |
 | Benjamin Harrison - 1886 - عدد الصفحات: 72
....God's over-ruling providence, bringing good out of evil, to advance the cause of His kingdom; "and the blood of the martyrs " has been " the seed of the Church." But " disestablishment and disendowment " would involve in them the sin of " National Apostasy." And... | |
 | Josiah Parsons Cooke (Jr.) - 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 360
...It is in that harmony that all its strength lies. It has been tested by the most varied experience. The blood of the martyrs has been the seed of the Church ; and the attestation of the great army of its confessors rolls down the Christian centuries with ever... | |
 | Rev. James Wells - 1891 - عدد الصفحات: 302
...the world. All the forces of evil have done their worst against it, and have failed. And more than that, the blood of the martyrs has been the seed of the Church. Their holy heroism has left a strong cheering light upon the paths of men. When the fires of persecution... | |
 | 1892 - عدد الصفحات: 812
...assailed the Church by persecution have defeated themselves, and confirmed and extended the Church. '-The blood of the martyrs has been the seed of the Church." And they who have attacked it with captious criticism and bitter controversy, have contributed to the... | |
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... the blood of the martyrs has been the seed of the Church. 
