History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . doubtto the desire not to become unpopular on account of it. It states that the Emperordelivered the nation from a tyrant, through the greatness of his genius and theinspiration of God. Church then entered upon the new era of royal favor, popularity,prosperity, and political power. We shall see how the Churchbecame too weak for her new place in the world, and lost thebeauty, innocence, and influence of the years of her
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . doubtto the desire not to become unpopular on account of it. It states that the Emperordelivered the nation from a tyrant, through the greatness of his genius and theinspiration of God. Church then entered upon the new era of royal favor, popularity,prosperity, and political power. We shall see how the Churchbecame too weak for her new place in the world, and lost thebeauty, innocence, and influence of the years of her childhood,to be restored again to these by great reformers, through a bap-tism of fire and blood, and to undertake again to Go into allthe world. 20 CHAPTER II THE DETERIORATION AND DIVISION OF THE CHURCH (313-1053) Heathenism Outlawed. The conversion of the EmperorConstantine was a great gain to the Christian cause, an epoch inthe history of the world. The Emperor, though his famous edictof 313, which gave the Christians equal rights with the heathen,was based upon the sacred rights of conscience, soon began toshow marked favoritism to his new faith. Heathen practices. STONE OF BAALBEC The temples at Baalbec were among the wonders of the world. They date A. D. The sun, Jupiter and Bacchus were objects worshiped here. A row ofthe 75-foot columns of the lemple of the Sun, one-half mile distant, is visible at the topof the picture. The ruins are remarkable for both exquisite carving and immensesize. The stone in the foreground was never moved from the limestone quarry. Its di-mensions are 14 x 15 x 70 feet. Three stones, 13 x 13 x 64 feet an in the walls ofthe Temple of Bacchus, twenty feet above the ground, the largest stones ever usedin any building. False worship censed here under by Rev. E. B. Boycr which involved sorcery, magic and immorality were suppressedby law. But any person who has seen at first hand, or even inpicture, the present-day ru
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