The book The Growth of the Christian Church was written by author Robert Hastings Nichols Here you can read free online of The Growth of the Christian Church book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Growth of the Christian Church a good or bad book?
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Only earnest and of the faithful people would profess Christianity when to do so brought on one the hostility of the gov- ernment. In this way the life of the Christians was kept on a high moral level. In the times of peace, however, many entered the Church, and among these some of light character, whose pres- ence lowered the average of Christian conduct. Then when persecution began again, its terrors caused these weaker ones to desert the cause of Christ. Thus the Church was purged of its un-... reliable members, and made more worthy of its Lord and stronger for his work. Character of the In the sccoud and third centuries the general secondand" character of the Christians continued to be, as it third centuries was in the first, high enough to distinguish them from the world about them. Though there were serious blemishes, on the whole the Christians were acknowledged to be of superior morality. Brother- liness, purity, honesty, were characteristic of them. Their brotherliness especially impressed a world in which this was new.
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