We look out upon many objects of interest from the dome of St.Peter's; and last of all, almost at our feet, our eyes rest upon the building which was once the Inquisition.

How times changed, between the older ages and the new! Some seventeen or eighteen centuries ago, the ignorant men of Rome were wont to put Christians in the arena of the Coliseum yonder, and turn the wild beasts in upon them for a show.

It was for a lesson as well.

It was to teach the people to abhor and fear the new doctrine the followers of Christ were teaching.

The beasts tore the victims limb from limb and made poor mangled corpses of them in the twinkling of an eye.