Excerpt from The Holy Land of Asia Minor: The Seven Cities of the Book of Revelation, Their Present Appearance, Their History, Their Significance, and Their Message to the Church of to-Day Through the ports of Smyrna and Ephesus so many eminent Christians and church fathers sailed on their way to Rome and to death that they were called The Gateways of the Martyrs. Here Christianity received its earliest development as a universal religion, a faith for Jew and gentile alike. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.