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Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...Christianity from The Providential Preparations for the Discovery of America down to recent events, such as, the founding of the Young People''s Society of Christian Endeavor and The Parliament of Religions, Dr. Bacon has been evidently impressed with the strivings after church unity. Again and again he seeks to read the lesson when denominations have wrongly attempted to aggrandize themselves. He says, Fifteen centuries of church history have not been wasted if thereby the Christian people have learned that the pursuit of Christian unity through administrative or corporative or diplomatic union is following the wrong road, and that the one Holy Catholic Church is not the corporation of saints but their communion (p. 35). In concluding this review we would repeat what we have said as to the spirit of fairness that breathes from almost every line. The denominationalist will of course want the history of his own communion. But whether he spells his church with a big C or a little c, we commend to him a perusal of this history of American Christianity. In reading it he cannot fail to learn one lesson--that the interests of the Kingdom of Christ are paramount to those of any denomination, no matter what its lineage may be nor how noble its record for service in the past. It would have greatly added to the usefulness of the history, if the books referred to in the footnotes had been united into a bibliography at the beginning of the volume. We regret that the publishers have not printed it upon better paper. Allen D. Severance. Westenn Reseave Univensity. A History Of The Presbyterian Churches In The United States. (The American Church History Series.) By Robert Ellis ThompSon, D.D. Pp. 421. New York:...
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