The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1866-03-15

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,yYhh who sought ,fpr me, al at home. Here am
asArri Ari you I:ll, shall not bea second time dis,
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il Alas! for Oetayiap. Tie spy Who
/, brought him was also q, spy upon him,
!, and would not fail to give notice of any
, lack Of fidelity to tho, emperor and the
laws The soldiers, too acting under his
!. orders, might report against him. Hc
had no choice but to arrest some one;
| and how could he refuse those who offer
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win pans Which =, went 70 his heart,
Octavian ordered the soldiers to arrest
the priest and Agrippa .1@8 ~
I "Will you not arrest 'mc, also ?" asked
Claudia. "Whcrc are my fettcrs ~ said
she, holding up her little hands with q
smile. 'ai
"Let men answer for their deeds, :"
said Octavian. awe need not burthen
ourselves with women' ro.
"I will go with my father and my
priest. said the heroic girl. "Who will
hinder me?'
She knew that it was to the prison
If she refused to sacrifice to the gods, 1t
was to torture, or those more infamous
and terrible outrages, so much worse
than torture to the Christian maiden,
and which pagan Rome did not hesitate
to ntlict. And there was death-shc
knew it well. All knew it; and yet
there cnsued this extraordinary specta-
Gle. Men, women, and even children
pressed forward, and said, "Takc me,
alsoW and held up their hands for the
chains.
Octoyian drove them back, and order
ed the soldiers to take the prisoners he
had selected. He could not hinder Clau-
dia from going by the side of her father.
II he could but have taken her and
tloWn-there was no such possibility {!
He was compelled to lead on to the pris-
on; and he had no power tn resist, when
the peerless Claudia, holding the hand
Of her father, said to the jailcr, II, also
am u Christian; lock me up with my
father"
Octavian, filed with love, rcmorsr
and despair, went 10 the palace OF tho
emperor, aud made his report, lie could
not stay the course of what Rome con
sidered justice. He knew the course Of
the trial, for he had been Il witness to
many such. He knew the tofurcs that
would be applied to that delicate wo-
man. scarcely more than child; and he
knew, also, and shrank in agony from
the far more horrible outrage<s to which
she might be exposed. 81;
Fu Ihc.trial was over. The aged priest,
the father and his beloved, and she,
whose image never left. him night or
day, were sentenced ''to the Ions
What Il joy to Rome me-Gtristirno$ al
leoucs.' The Old cry rang out once more
from the fcrocioas Roman mob. "The
Christians to the lions et.
Octavian resolved to make one effort
to save them. He threw himself upon
his knees before the good enpcror-thp
wise emperor, and begged him 10 par
don these three. Christians.
}"Three Christians ~ said the philo-
sophie Marcus Aurelius. ~"Why should
we forgive three christians Have they
been tried?o
ayes, sire ~
q condemned ?"
"les sire ~
"Ihen they must he punished. Who
ever hears Of Il Christian being pardon
ed? The religious tranquility of the
empire requires that the impious sect
should be eXterminated.n
No more hope. The day came; the
emperor went to the amphitheatre, and
Octavian attended him. The old priest
Standing in the midst of the arena, his
hands spread out in prayer, was dcEour-
ed by great Numidian lion. Agrippa,
father of Claudia, sunk under the spring
Of ferocious tiger; and as he fell, seven
t. thousand Romans sent up shouts of
triumph and applause.
But even this blood-thirsty mob was
hushed to silence, which gave place to q
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