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The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1865., [Electronic resource], Sunday school Celebration. (search)
atural. Socrates taught the Athenians (who believed in polytheism) the simple "idea" of a Supreme Being; they put him to death. Jesus taught the Jews (great believers in Moses and the Prophets) the "idea" of higher revelations from God; they put him to death. The people of Ethiopia cut St. Matthew into pieces with a sword because he advocated the Nazarene. Mark, the next named in the Testament, was dragged through the streets of Alexandria, in Egypt, and subsequently died in great agony. Luke, because he would teach the "blasphemies" of Jesus, was hung on an olive tree in Greece. The beloved John, for his religious heresy, died at Ephesus only after he had escaped from a cauldron of boiling oil. James the Great was beheaded at Jerusalem, while the lesser James was thrown headlong from a pinnacle of the temple. Philip was hanged by the neck in the streets of Hierpolis. Bartholomew was flayed alive; Andrew was bound to a cross for his heresy, and thus addressed his persecutors ti