Methods of early Christian missionary work . -7- unsuccessful from his work among the Frisians, he decidedto go to Rome and receive from the pope the autnorityof the Roman Hot only did Boniface make thisone journey out he made two later ones, and was alwaysin close touch with Rome, Through this backing hisentire work was put on a decidedly strong basis. Thuswe find that the power of Rome politically aid much inthe advancement of Christianity, —oooo— 1, Sohaff, History of the Christian Church: v, 4, p. 93,. -8- Part II. The Beginning 01 the Work. The districts into which these missiona
Methods of early Christian missionary work . -7- unsuccessful from his work among the Frisians, he decidedto go to Rome and receive from the pope the autnorityof the Roman Hot only did Boniface make thisone journey out he made two later ones, and was alwaysin close touch with Rome, Through this backing hisentire work was put on a decidedly strong basis. Thuswe find that the power of Rome politically aid much inthe advancement of Christianity, —oooo— 1, Sohaff, History of the Christian Church: v, 4, p. 93,. -8- Part II. The Beginning 01 the Work. The districts into which these missionariesentered may be more readily understood when we contrastthem with the territories in whioh the apostles is true that the apostles went out among a peoplewho were worshipping idols, and yet they went to thegreatest cities in the world, to Athens, to Corinth, andto Home. They went to cities where civilization waswell developed, where law and order were gloried in, andwhere Virgil, Gelsus, and Origen guided the intellectuallife of the people. But the missionaries of this laterperiod went among the barbarians, among people who scarcelyknew civilization, and who lived, not in organized cities,but in tribes. They worshipped nature in the trees, infire, and in frost. Though there were leaders and greatmen among them, yet these men were not great in cultureand intellect, as were those of Home and Greece. Prom Ireland, for instance, tne workers wentinto the remote districts, into the mountainous regions
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