The World’s Sunday-school Convention in Rome was a great
occasion and a notable success. Poetically significant was the
gathering amid the memorable ruins of the Colosseum. Here on
the very sands that have been soaked with the blood of early
Christian martyrs, where thousands have met the fierce Numidian
lion and been torn to pieces for Christ’s sake, over a thousand
delegates peacefully assembled to bear witness to the very
Nazarene in whose cause those martyrs suffered. The pagan Roman
persecutors sought to wipe out the remembrance of His name from
the earth; and here this great company of Christian delegates
meet to celebrate His name, never before so widely worshiped and
adored as to-day.
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