THE END OF A GREAT MAN

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · May 5, 1885

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 62, No. 18

THE END OF A GREAT MAN.

How little the great men of this world know to what ignoble ends they may come! The Cæsars, who held in their hands the scepter of the world, certainly esteemed themselves among the high and mighty of earth, whom the people should profoundly venerate, if not absolutely deify. How would they have felt if they could have foreseen the fate revealed in the following incident:—

It is reported that “some workmen in Rome recently discovered the ashes of one of the Cæsars, who ruled the empire more than eighteen centuries ago; and as they were very white and clean, one gave them to his wife, who made them into lye for washing!”