tell anything about the prison, or the trial, or the manner of the
death. But it does tell about his courage, his calmness, his faith and
his noble spirit. It is a letter to Timothy, his young friend, written
by “Paul the aged.” It says: “I am already being offered up now, and the
time of my departure is come. I have fought the good fight. I have
finished my course. I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up
for me a crown of righteousness.” At the end, as always through his
life, he was “ready.” Unmoved and undefeated, and, we may be sure, with
his face shining, as Stephen’s shone that memorable day in Paul’s youth,
he went to meet his death. They could kill his body with their sharp
sword, but they could not crush his spirit or conquer his faith and
hope. When his eyes could no longer see Rome with its capital and its
coliseum, he could see his Christ, and when his ears could not hear the
shouting and the cries of the people, he could hear a gentle voice say:
“Well done, good and faithful servant, enter into the joy of thy Lord.”
The hero got home with God at last.
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Transcriber’s Note
Punctuation has been normalized. Variations in hyphenation have been
retained as they were in the original publication. The following changes
have been made:
“new Jersualem,” —> Jerusalem {page 42}
the saints in Cæsar’s househould —> household {page 167}
Italicized phrases are presented by surrounding the text with
_underscores_.