Today's installment concludes Nero Persecutes the Christians,our selection by Frederic William Farrar.If you have journeyed through all of the

The specific atrocity of such spectacles -- unknown to the earlier ages which they called barbarous -- was due to the cold-blooded selfishness, the

And, indeed, when once the Christians were pointed out to the popular vengeance, many reasons would be adduced to prove their connection with the

But the haughty historian throws no light on one difficulty -- namely, the circumstances which led to the Christians being thus singled