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Ultimate resolution of the Protestants at Nismes 367
CHAPTER XVIII. ASAAD SHIDIAK. Narrative of the conversion, imprisonment, and sufferings of Asaad Shidiak, a native of Palestine, who had been confined for several years in the Convent on Mount Lebanon 368 Public statement of Asaad Shidiak, in 1826 377 Brief history of Asaad Esh Shidiak, from the time of his being betrayed into the hands of the Maronite Patriarch, in the Spring of 1826 410
CHAPTER XIX. PERSECUTIONS OF THE BAPTIST MISSIONARIES IN INDIA, DURING THE YEAR 1824. Removal of the prisoners to Oung-pen-la—Mrs. Judson follows them 430
CHAPTER XX. PERSECUTIONS OF THE WESLEYAN MISSIONARIES IN THE WEST INDIES. Case of Rev. John Smith 449 Persecutions of the Wesleyan Methodists in St. Domingo 450 Persecutions at Port au Prince 450
CHAPTER XXI. PERSECUTIONS IN SWITZERLAND FROM 1813 TO 1830. Persecutions in the Pays de Vaud 461
CHAPTER XXII. SKETCHES OF THE LIVES OF SOME OF THE MOST EMINENT REFORMERS. John Wickliffe 464 Martin Luther 468 John Calvin 473 Agency of Calvin in the death of Michael Servetus 475 Calvin as a friend of Civil Liberty 478 The life of the Rev. John Fox 482 Errors, rites, ceremonies, and superstitious practices of the Romish church 487
CHAPTER XXIII. SKETCH OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION OF 1789, AS CONNECTED WITH THE HISTORY OF PERSECUTIONS. 489 Massacre of prisoners 496 Death of Louis XVI and other members of the Royal Family 499 Dreadful scenes in La Vendée 501 Scenes at Marseilles and Lyons 501 The installation of the Goddess of Reason 506 Fall of Danton, Robespierre, Marat and other Jacobins 508

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BOOK OF MARTYRS

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CHAPTER I.

HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN MARTYRS TO THE FIRST GENERAL PERSECUTION UNDER NERO.

The history of the church may almost be said to be a history of the trials and sufferings of its members, as experienced at the hands of wicked men. At one time, persecution, as waged against the friends of Christ, was confined to those without; at another, schisms and divisions have arrayed brethren of the same name against each other, and scenes of cruelty and woe have been exhibited within the sanctuary, rivalling in horror the direst cruelties ever inflicted by pagan or barbarian fanaticism. This, however, instead of implying any defect in the gospel system, which breathes peace and love; only pourtrays in darker colours the deep and universal depravity of the human heart. Pure