Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

ADVERTISEMENTIN" the six chapters forming the first volume of thiswork I was engaged in describing the operation ofChristianity, as it took the individual human soul for*/ *its unit, purified' it, and wrought in it a supernaturallife. I began with the consummation of the old worldin its state of the highest civilisation united with theutmost moral degeneracy; I proceeded thence to thenew creation of individual man; compared heathenwith Christian man in the persons of Cicero and St.Augustine; drew" out certain effects upon the worldaround of Christian life, as seen in those professing it,and viewed Christian marriage as restoring the primaryrelation between man and woman, and thus remakingthe basis of human society, while the Virginal Lifeexhibited the crown and efflorescence of the most distinctiveChristian grace in the soul.I had thus, beginning with the stones of which thebuilding is formed, reached the building itself; and thenext thins; was to consider the Christian Church in itshistorical development as the Kingdom of Truth and-L