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Show KOW THE APOSTLES DIED. Many readers, perhaps a large majority of them, old as tvell as young, will find new information, so to speak, in tlio following paragraph, para-graph, taken from the Evangelist: St. Matthew is supposed to have suffered martyrdom or was slain tviih the sword nt the city of Ethiopia. St. Luke was hanged upon an olive tree, in Greece. St. John was put into a cauldron of boiling oil at Rome, and escaped deatli at ISphesus, in Asia. fit. James the Great was beheaded at Jerusalem. St. James the Less was thrown from a pinnacle or wing of the temple and then beaten to death with a fuller's club. St. Philip was hanged up against a pillar at Hierapolis, a city of Phrygia. St. Bartholomew was flayed alive by the command of a barbarous king. St. Andrew was oouna to a cross, wnence no preaou-ed preaou-ed unto the people until he expired. St. Thomas was run through the body with a lanoe at Corommdel, in the East Indies. St. John was shot to death with arrows. St. Simon Zealot was crucified iu Persia. St. Matthias was firBl stoned and then beheaded. St. Barnabas was stoned to death by the Jews at Salania. St. Paul was beheaded by Nero. |
