Notes

V/hen the emperor heard of this, he sent an officer to stop this Christian work by persecution. But, finding that putting the common people to death did not stop the work from going on, he resolved to to make an example of one of the leading men amoncf them ; so Clement was chosen for this purpose. He had to make his choice between renouncing his religion and being put to death. Here again he displayed the same courage which had animated him before. He refused to give up his religion. Then he was condemned to death. He was put on board a small vessel and carried far off from the shore. A heavy stone (or, according to another account, an anchor) was fastened to his feet, and he was plunged into the depths of the sea. Such, tradition says, was the end of this ''hero of the early Church."

But when we think of Clement of Rome, let us remember the four good lessons tauglit us by his example — the lesson of earnestness in seeking for the truth, the lesson of humility, the lesson of usefulness, and the lesson of courage— and let us try