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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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but he fell a victimto the temptations of Carthage, as he freely confessed, and thereby was causedsorrow all through his life. He went to Rome, followed by the prayers of hisdevoted mother, and then to Milan, where he fell under the influence of thesaintly Ambrose, who was Bishop of Milan. It was the most fortunate thingthat could have happened to Augustine, for after much study and meditationhe felt the necessity of a living, personal God and Saviour to rescue him fromthe condemnation of his own conscience. He was baptized by Ambrose onthe 25th of April, 387. Soon after, he set out on his return home. Hismother, who was his companion, died happy and grateful because of the salva-tion of her son. Before leaving Italy for Africa he wrote several of his mostnoted treatises. His inflexible character as a Christian had become fixed, andhe devoted his majestic intellect to the propagation of the truths of Christian-ity. He divided his goods among the poor, retired to private life, and com-
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AMBROSE BARRING THEODOSIUS FROM THE CHURCH Rome—Death of Constantine 441 posed other treatises, which added to his already high reputation. In 391 hewas ordained priest, and although busily occupied for the next few years inpreaching, he wrote three more works, and in 395 was made colleague withValerius, Bishop of Hippo. In 397 appeared his Confessions, in thirteenbooks. It is an earnest autobiography of one of the greatest minds the worldhas ever known. Some of its passages are paralleled nowhere outside thePsalms of David. In 426 he finished his greatest work, De Civitate Dei,which, despite some faults of premises and reasoning, has been accepted as oneof the most profound and lasting monuments of human genius. He died onAugust 28, 430, in answer to his own prayer, during the siege of Hippo by theVandals. No man ever exerted a greater influence over the church than he. Now, while Constantine professed Christianity, it is impossible to believethat his heart was touched by its gentl

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