Excerpt from What Civilization Owes to the Church At her very foundation Our Divine Savior gave to her these very definite charges: the diffusion among all nations of the teaching of Christianity; the preservation of the treasure of the Faith; the maintaining in honor before men the beauty of Christian revelation; the inclining of men's wil'ls to the observance of a lofty moral law. These were the commissions. Given to the Church in the beginning: a stupendous program, guaranteed against failure by Him who gave it. To ...
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Excerpt from What Civilization Owes to the Church At her very foundation Our Divine Savior gave to her these very definite charges: the diffusion among all nations of the teaching of Christianity; the preservation of the treasure of the Faith; the maintaining in honor before men the beauty of Christian revelation; the inclining of men's wil'ls to the observance of a lofty moral law. These were the commissions. Given to the Church in the beginning: a stupendous program, guaranteed against failure by Him who gave it. To bring men's minds into conformity with God's mind by right thinking, and men's hands into conformity with God's law by right acting - which alone is supernatural religion - this was the work of the Church. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This 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.
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