. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. THE COMING AND MINISTEY OFOUR MONG great events in the historyof the world, none can be compared,for magnitude and importance, withthe descent upon earth and the minis-try of our blessed Lord and Saviour,^t^ Jesus Christ. Upon this the wholedestiny of the human race depends. All succeedingimportant events in history take their character andcolouring from this; and in giving a series of sketchesof leading events in the reli
. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. THE COMING AND MINISTEY OFOUR MONG great events in the historyof the world, none can be compared,for magnitude and importance, withthe descent upon earth and the minis-try of our blessed Lord and Saviour,^t^ Jesus Christ. Upon this the wholedestiny of the human race depends. All succeedingimportant events in history take their character andcolouring from this; and in giving a series of sketchesof leading events in the religious history of the world,the reader will not be surprised that we give to thisthe first and most prominent place. To appreciate the astonishing effects of the ministryof our Lord and the diffusion of his religion, in civili-zing and humanizing mankind, it may be well to look 10 MINISTRY OF OUR SAVIOUR. at the dreadful condition to which the nations of theworld had fallen at the time of his coming. A recentlearned writer has the following remarks on thesocial condition of the ancient world: In antiquity, human nature, as such, was investedwith no sacred character: men were divided into twoclasse
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