The Founding of a New World (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Founding of a New World<br><br>Twenty years ago the author became convinced that an urgent need of English-speaking Protestantism was a popular history of the Christian Church. Each year since has deepened his conviction of its necessity for the American Churches and the American people. No Church and no people can afford to be ignorant of its past. The society and civilization into which we are born is our heritage. These are mainly determined by the history of our country and of the Christian religion. The distinguishing feature of our civilization is that it is Christian. The Man of Galilee uttered words and lived a life by which public opinion judges men and nations. Our developing civilization feels the influence of the centuries of Christian history. Every intelligent man should know, at least in outline, the history of his own land and of the Christian Church. The forces molding the life of our times are the forces active in the one as in the other. Every Christian must rejoice in the knowledge of the providential guidance of the Church of God, and the development and conquests of the Christian religion. Our own life finds help in it, as did that of the psalmist and prophets of the Old, and the apostles of the New Covenant, in the history of Israel.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.