Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

.RTYR CHURCH.203parted by the one and delivered by the other. Itis no vague congeries of opinions held by individualswith the diversity of individuals, but abody strongly organised, and possessing an imperishablelife, the life of its Author. And we haveall this mentioned as fulfilled at the distance ofone life from our Lord's ascension, while indeedhis kinsman and elder in age, S. Simeon, is stillbishop of Jerusalem, and mentioned by one ofwhom a beautiful though insufficiently groundedlegend says that he was that child whom our Lordhad called and placed before His disciples as themodel of those who should enter into His kingdom.He was at least so near in time to Christ that thiscould be said of him. He is the bishop of Antioch;he is on his way !/ to be thrown to the beasts in theColosseum at Rome ;27 he is welcomed on his wayby church after church, and he sees and describesthe bishops, in their several boundaries throughthe earth, as each maintaining the mind of Christin the unity of his Body.Such is the Church merely stated as a facttowards the beginning of the second century.And the trial which in these sixty years theSaviour Jesus Christ which suffered for our sins, which in His goodnessthe Father raised."27 He says, ad Bom. ii. : tfOri T^V eVuncoTiw Supfow o Qsbsis Svcru/ airk avaro\ris Hist. C. Ixv,are at a loss to accountsent to suffer martyrdom at Rome."for the bishopyromexample, and the Bishop of Rome, S. Alexander, was at this time inmm