He has only once alluded to the Christians in his works, and then it is under the opprobrious title of 'Galileans,' who practised a kind of insensibility in painful circumstances, and an indifference to worldly interests, which Epictetus unjustly sets down to 'mere habit.' Unhappily, it was not granted to these heathen philosophers in any true sense to know what Christianity was.

They thought that it was an attempt to imitate the results of philosophy, without having passed through the necessary discipline.

They viewed it with suspicion, they treated it with injustice.

And yet in Christianity, and in Christianity alone, they would have found an ideal which would have surpassed their loftiest anticipations."] [Footnote 164: Sparks' 'Life of Washington,' pp.

141-2.] [Footnote 165: Wellington, like Washington, had to pay the penalty of his adherence to the cause he thought right, in his loss of "popularity." He was mobbed in the streets of London, and had his windows smashed by the mob, while his wife lay dead in the house.