Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Chicago Synod and Its Antecedents
Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness leaning upon her Beloved Song of Solomon 8. 5.
Hese words have often been applied to the Church in her strange and varied history and experience. Down in the wilderness she has often been. Up from the wilderness she has always come. Down she has always gone when she ceased to lean on her Beloved, and sought to nourish herself from earthy and human sources. In the wilderness she has always wandered when she followed the fox-fires and rush lights of human reason, unaided by the Light of the world. Up from the wilderness she has always come when she despaired of her own resources and strength, ceased to lean on her own understanding and leaned again on her Beloved. This new book with its strange story is another demonstration of the old truth in the above text.
The writer of this history had a difficult task. The original seeds and roots of what is now the Chicago Synod were scattered in distant and obscure places. It required painstaking digging, searching and sifting to find them. The results of this labor of the historian are before us. They are intense in interest and pregnant with practical lessons. These things were written for our admonition. May the Church take them to heart and profit by them.
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