. The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Si H> o o G m o < a M n w. CHAPTER SOCIETIES. I wish to consider some of the historical backgrounds of the begin-nings of Rhode Island and to relate them particularly to certain greatmovements in the history of the Christian Church; movements of far-reaching influence and on the whole too little understood. In its beginnings, the Christian Church was a thing apart and sum-moned men out of what it taught them was a perishing world into fellow-ships wholly disassociated from almost every aspect of contemp
. The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Si H> o o G m o < a M n w. CHAPTER SOCIETIES. I wish to consider some of the historical backgrounds of the begin-nings of Rhode Island and to relate them particularly to certain greatmovements in the history of the Christian Church; movements of far-reaching influence and on the whole too little understood. In its beginnings, the Christian Church was a thing apart and sum-moned men out of what it taught them was a perishing world into fellow-ships wholly disassociated from almost every aspect of contemporaneouslife. It was the clear belief of the early Church that the world wasdoomed; they were waiting always for the sound of the archangelstrump when the heavens should be rolled back as a fiery scroll and theearth herself be reborn in a baptism of fire. Why then should they con-cern themselves with the affairs of the Roman empire or mundane aflfairsat all when they were so doomed to perish ? There was thus no attemptto establish any relation between the Church and the world. The worldscorned the
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