Excerpt from The Story of the Acts of the Apostles: A Narrative of the Development of the Early ChurchIt is but a hopeless kind of so-called criticism that would admit the authenticity of the Acts, as even conservative rationalists now do, and deny or attempt to explain away what the Acts chie¿y insist upon the fulfilment of the pr0ph ceies and promises of Christ, the descent of the Holy Ghost, and the miraculous and supernatural character of the Christian propaganda. At tempt to rationalize Christianity, and you evis cerate or annihilate it. It did what human rea son and human nature never did or could do, ad mit, then, that it was what it proclaims itself to be the work of God.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.