Freedom in the Church Or the Doctrine of Christ As the Lord Hath Commanded An
The book Freedom in the Church Or the Doctrine of Christ As the Lord Hath Commanded An was written by author Allen, Alexander V. G. (Alexander Viets Griswold), 1841-1908 Here you can read free online of Freedom in the Church Or the Doctrine of Christ As the Lord Hath Commanded An book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Freedom in the Church Or the Doctrine of Christ As the Lord Hath Commanded An a good or bad book?
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The strength of a people lies in its consciousness of God ; and just in proportion as it knows God and worships Him is a people strong. But God was disappearing from the thought and life. And Christ also, the strong Christ of the Gos- pels, the leader of humanity, who had come to reveal God, He had been reduced to an in- fant in His mother's arms, and it was the Christ- child who could appeal to His mother's love and sympathy, which also appealed to the de- teriorating religious instincts of th...e age. When the Providence of God was fully revealed, it broke upon the world in the invasion of the Sar- acens, who easily took possession of the territory of the Eastern Church. Asia Minor, nursing mother of so many religions, where the cult of the Virgin Mary had also found most fertile soil, succumbed to the invasion of the followers 156 FREEDOM IN THE CHURCH of the prophet, whose war-cry and rehgion were the same, ''There is one God. " That had been also the original war-cry of the Christian Church as it entered the Roman Empire to begin its unparalleled career of conquest.
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