This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ... other lines of human thought, of human endeavor, of human achievement are rent and broken. Forgotten peoples and strange civilizations loom up in the prehistoric darkness, and in a moment they disappear. Egypt and Assyria, Babylon and Tyre, made a mighty show for a time, but their grandeur quickly passed. Alexander ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ... other lines of human thought, of human endeavor, of human achievement are rent and broken. Forgotten peoples and strange civilizations loom up in the prehistoric darkness, and in a moment they disappear. Egypt and Assyria, Babylon and Tyre, made a mighty show for a time, but their grandeur quickly passed. Alexander and his officers, who were kings, swept through the world like a prairie fire, and as suddenly their power was spent. The stately majesty of the Roman peace seemed to promise eternity, but Rome, too, fell before the universal law. Kings and peoples, statesmen and philosophers appear for a moment on the stage of history, and in a moment they are gone. The path of the ages is strewn with broken sceptres, torn constitutions, outworn systems, abandoned philosophies. As on the eastern flanks of the high Sierras the melting snows give birth to a thousand streams that go rejoicing down the mountain sides, swelling at times to goodly rivers and promising fertility to the fields, but as they reach the plain their current is slackened and arrested till they lose themselves in stagnant sinks or are swallowed up in the desert sands, so it would seem as if the whole course of human history tended to that valley which the prophet saw in vision filled with the bleaching bones of the unburied dead. What is it that exempts the Church from the fate that overtakes all human institutions? The answer is plain. The Church is not a human institution. It is the workmanship of Jesus Christ. It was sent into the world not by the will of man but by the power of God. After His resurrection our Lord solemnly charged His Apostles, saying: "All power is given unto Me in heaven and on earth. Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations: baptizing them in the name of the Father...
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Add this copy of Altar and Priest to cart. $47.02, new condition, Sold by Revaluation Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Exeter, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2009 by BiblioBazaar.
Add this copy of Altar and Priest to cart. $49.07, new condition, Sold by Revaluation Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Exeter, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2009 by BiblioBazaar.
