The Downfall of Heathenism in the Roman Empire

As we saw, in the first three centuries of our Christian era, the Christians were intermittently persecuted. But in 323 Constantine the great, the first Christian occupant of the throne of the ceasars, became the sole ruler of the Roman world, and the church was everywhere free from its enemies. The church again had survived another baptism of fire. Thus was confirmed anew the speech that rose from the burning bush in whose flame of fire the angel of the Lord appeared to Moses -- this speech,...