It appealed only to the highest attributes and longings of the human soul, and under its sustaining influence frail women, men, and even children were able to endure tortures, of which we cannot read even now without shuddering horror.
Nature's method of gardening is very beautiful.

She carefully guards the seed until it is ripe, then she bursts the imprisoning walls and gives it to the winds to distribute.

Precisely such method was used in disseminating Christianity.

It was not for one people--it was for the healing of the nations, and its home was wherever man abides.
Nearly five decades after Christ's death upon the cross, Jerusalem was destroyed by Titus.

The home of Christianity was effaced.