Excerpt from Historical Church Atlas: Consisting of Eighteen Maps and Fifty Sketch-Maps in the Text, Illustrating the History of Eastern and Western Christendom Until the Reformation, and That of the Anglican Communion Until the Present Day<br><br>How has all this come about? The annals of the civilized world for the last eighteen centuries will furnish an answer. The history of the spread of the Christian faith, from its humble beginnings in Jerusalem until the present day, may be regarded as furnishing a striking evidence of God's ruling providence in the world - an evidence which, while it strengthens our faith, must invigorate at the same time our hope of the ultimate and universal triumph of the Gospel. Predicted by prophecy, this expansion has been brought about by movements which, seeming sometimes to be purely secular in their issues, have at length been attended by such spiritual results as to impress one with the conviction that the vicissitudes of the Church and the world are leading to one great and definite end.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.