Excerpt from Annals of the Church of Christ: From the Beginning to the Present Time, With a Glance at the Churches in America

The author of the Annals or Sketches of the Church has through a long life felt a deep and abiding interest in all that concerns the history of the people of God whom we call the Holy Catholic Church. A few moments of leisure taken from each day of a busy life, has for a decade of years been employed in the collection of facts relating to the Church. The period of time that our record embraces, begins when the disciples bade adieu to their Lord on Mount Olivet, and continues to trace the outline of remarkable or interesting epochs to the present hour. It is a popular history for young and old, and is abridged chiefly from the works of Dean Milman. We are also indebted to the histories of Mosheim and Gibbon and to the later ecclesiastical literature of Southey, Schaff, Froude, Green, etc. We know that many noble church histories are in existence, but they are very elaborate and are but little read except by students of divinity. Our book is succinct and simple, but contains many interesting facts that intelligent Christians ought to know. We have tried to state the facts that have been handed down to us from age to age, without garbling. When the Roman soldiers looked upon the coat of our crucified Lord, they said, "Let us not rend it, " so would we present, without the touch of passion or prejudice, the varied events we have contemplated.

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