Roseau Times-Region - Serving Roseau County for over 100 Years - The Official Roseau County Newspaper

"For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake's he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich." (11 Corinthians 8:9)

In the year 112 A.D. the governor of the rural province of Bithyana in northwest Asia Minor, a man by the name of Pliny, wrote a letter to the Emperor Trajan, seeking counsel on what to do with the growing number of Christians in his province. "I do not know just what to do with the Christians," he wrote, "for I have never been present at their trials. Is just being a Christian enough to punish, or must someth...