Article March 1, 1900 Issue

Weapons not Carnal

Selected

When in the year 254 an epidemic broke out in Carthage, the Christians, answering an appeal made to them by the venerable Cyprian, though they had just suffered a violent persecution, by their zeal and self-denying courage saved the city from pestilence. Their heathen neighbors, afraid of infection, refused to minister to the sick or bury the dead as they lay in heaps in the streets—corpses tainted the air. "Let us now overcome evil with good," exclaimed the good bishop. The effect of these words worked like a charm, and the uttermost parts of the Roman Empire heard him.—Selected.

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