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O Antioch, thou teacher of the world!— From out thy portals passed the feet of those, Who, banished and despised, have made thy name The next in rank to proud Jerusalem. Within thy gates the persecuted few, Who dared to rally round the Holy Cross, And worship Him whose sacred form it bore, Were first called Christians. In thy sad conceit, Thou mad’st a stigma of reproach and shame, This noblest title of the sons of earth: While, save for this, thy name were scarcely known, Except among the mouldering vestiges Of dim antiquity. So doth our God Make all men’s folly ever praise His name.
O Antioch, thou teacher of the world!— From out thy portals passed the feet of those, Who, banished and despised, have made thy name The next in rank to proud Jerusalem. Within thy gates the persecuted few, Who dared to rally round the Holy Cross, And worship Him whose sacred form it bore, Were first called Christians. In thy sad conceit, Thou mad’st a stigma of reproach and shame, This noblest title of the sons of earth: While, save for this, thy name were scarcely known, Except among the mouldering vestiges Of dim antiquity. So doth our God Make all men’s folly ever praise His name.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- J. L. Chester (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
In print by 1888: recorded in A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 122 · printed citation: J. L. Chester · subject: CHRISTIANITY
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