. The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. J. 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 iar-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
. The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. J. 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 iar-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 affairsat 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 Ch
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