Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Saint Peter and the First Years of Christianity
I have been requested to introduce the present volume to the English-speaking public, and I gladly do so, in the persuasion that it will be welcomed on all sides as a valuable addition to our religious literature.
In a previous work the gifted author gave us a most happy presentation of the Life of Our Lord. In this book he undertakes to describe the first beginnings of the (christian) Church.
No subject, after the Gospel narrative, could be more grateful to the Christian reader. There is none which the thoughtful student approaches with a keener interest, for it is the opening of the great era Of human history, and of that higher form of life which the Whole civilized world gradually came to accept as its ideal, and to which it has never since ceased to pay homage.
Unhappily, our sources of information regarding the early days Of Christianity are very imperfect, being almost entirely confined to the Acts of the Apostles. 62 But under the intelligent guidance of Abbe how much may be gathered even from so short and fragmentary a narrative With all the varied informa F 4 tion and cultivated tact of an historian, he adds to the clearness and consecutiveness of what we knew before.
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