Lydia A Tale of the Second Century Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Lydia: A Tale of the Second Century

The blamelessness of the lives, and the acknowledged virtues of the early Christians, proved insufficient to pro teet them against the strong prejudice of a jealous and unbelieving majority: and in the nineteenth, as in the second century of the Church, do we find, in too many instances, a lack of that firmness and moral courage which we so admire, but do not always practise.

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