Excerpt from History, Vol. 1 of 3: Propagation of Christianity Among the Heathen; Since the Reformation The propagation of Christianity in the world is the most important subject which can engage the attention of a historian. The rise, the progress, and the down fal of empires; the discovery of unknown countries; the lives of philosophers, of senators, of princes; the improvements of the arts and sciences, may furnish useful and interesting materials for history; but nothing is so momentous as the diffusion of the gospel in the world, which at once brings glory to God in the highest, peace on earth, and good will toward man. The transcendent importance of this subject is stamped by no less than Divine authority. In the New Testa ment, we have only two branches of history the Gos pels, containing the life of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and the Acts of the Apostles, exhibiting a view of the propagation of Christianity in the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.