Christ Our King

        When we become the servants of God we engage to be so forever. An aged Bishop who was acquainted, in his younger days, with the Apostle S. John, and whose name was Polycarp, was brought before the Roman Proconsul, or Magistrate, to be tried for being a Christian. He was told to reproach Christ. Raising his grey head, and looking steadfastly upon the judge with a grave and solemn aspect, he said, "Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He hath never wronged me, and how can I blaspheme my King who has saved me?" Upwards of a hundred years old, he chose rather to be burnt to death than deny Christ.