Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

THEFORMATION OF CHRISTENDOMCHAPTERVII.THE GODS OF THE NATIONS WHEN CHEIST APPEARED." Emmanuel, Eex et Legifer noster, Expectatio gentium, et Salvatorearum, veni ad salvandum nos, Domine Deus noster."UNDER the sceptre of the imperial unity werebrought together a hundred different lands occupiedby as many different races. That rule ofRome which had grown for many centuries without, as it seemed, any presiding thought, by thecasual accretions of conquest, may be said toassume under the hands of Augustus, about theyear of Rome 750, certain definite and deliberatelychosen limits, and to be governed by a fixed Idea,more and more developed in the imperial policy.The limits which the most fortunate of Romanemperors, nay the creator of the empire itself, putto it, were the Rhine and Danube, with the " EuxineSea, on the north; the deserts of Africa on thesouth; the Euphrates on the east; the ocean onii.B"'ST f~ "M **k«itHFC