This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...me, He might take some other course. I cannot therefore be really and completely tranquil, and promise myself complete happiness from the good-will of the Almighty God, until I shall see all men united in bonds of brotherhood, rendering to the all-holy God the regular worship of the Catholic religion." The persistency ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...me, He might take some other course. I cannot therefore be really and completely tranquil, and promise myself complete happiness from the good-will of the Almighty God, until I shall see all men united in bonds of brotherhood, rendering to the all-holy God the regular worship of the Catholic religion." The persistency with which the idea conveyed by these last words is put forward again and again by Constantine in the subsequent course of his life, is enough to convince us that the Emperor was not here merely adopting a sentiment suggested by his ecclesiastical advisers, but that he was strongly persuaded that he was an agent in the hands of the supreme Governor of the world; and that as his secular mission was to complete the Diocletian policy, and so establish the unity and peace of the Empire on a permanent basis, so it was his religious mission to bring the whole Empire to acknowledge the one God in the unity of the Catholic faith. That unity of religious sentiment which had been the strongest bond of national union in the ancient nations of the world; which Rome had lost when it absorbed the nations; which the Empire had tried to regain by adopting some of the foreign gods and identifying others with the gods of Rome; which the patriotic Emperors had sought to maintain by persecuting Christianity as a disturbing elementj and encouraging the revival of the ancient religion;--that unity of religious sentiment Constantine now sought to attain in the universal adoption of the Christian religion as the religion of the Empire; first, because he believed in it himself, and next, because he saw in it the strongest bond of that permanent unity and peace and prosperity which it was the object of his life to secure for the Roman world. One of the letters of ...
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