...and spiritual vicissitudes of the journey, even to the end. This man's name is HOPEFUL. It is said that " the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church ; " and so the noble and manly testimony of FAITHFUL, throughout all the trying scenes of Vanity Fair, has...

...said by Tertulliau in his celebrated Apology, or Defence of Christianity, (Plures efficimur, &c.,) that " the blood of the Martyrs is the seed of the Church." And so assuredly the trials and sorrows, insults and persecutions, which our Brethren then endured from...

...mild and patient temper and slow constitutional.methods, and the deed of treachery and blood which has closed his career. No one felt this peculiar bitterness...in the noble old man's own expressed faith that he w.is " worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other earthly purpose." He had made up his mind...

...mild and patient temper and slow constitutional methods, and the deed of treachery and blood which has closed his career. No one felt this peculiar bitterness...and acquiesce in the noble old man's own expressed fuith that he was " worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other earthly purpose." He had made...

...mild and patient temper and slow constitutional methods, and the deed of treachery and blood which has closed his career. No one felt this peculiar bitterness...was hanged in Virginia for his attempt on Harper's Perry. Then we could but say that '' the b!ood of the martyrs is the seed of the church," and acquiesce...

...slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life,' for it is true to-day as ever it was that 'the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. ' And call his death whatever modification "of martyrdom you may, the same class of feelings are engendered...

...slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life,' for it is true to-day as ever it was that 'the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. ' And call his death whatever modification of martyrdom you may, the same class of feelings are engendered...

...indisputable truth to mako it evident that Protestantism was burned out of Spain. \ It has been said that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. And it is true, no doubt, that Christian martyrdom is eloquent preaching. But there may be persecution...

...of charity. It is a proof that persecution even unto the death is altogether unavailing ; it proves that the blood of the martyrs is the seed o*f the Church ; and it proves farther, that although we have suffered under a system of persecution, we would not, even...

...popular reaction may be expected on behalf of innocent sufferers, was ever the real meaning of the maxim, that "the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church." And the moment when the heathen most furiously raged was ever that at which those who saw things as they...