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The history of the origins of Christianity
The first book of our History of the Origins of Christianity brought us down to the death, and burial of Jesus ; and we must now resume the subject at the point where we left it — that is to say, on Saturday, the fourth of April, in the year 33. The work will be for some time yet a sort of continuation of the life of Jesus. Next to the months of joyful raptiu-e, during which the great Founder laid the bases of a new order of things for humanity, these few succeeding j^ears were the most decisive in the history of the world. It is still Jesus, who, by the holy fire kindled in the hearts of a few friends from the spark he himself has placed there, creates institutions of the highest originality, stirs and transforms souls, and impresses on everything his divine seal. "VYe have to show how^ imder this influence, always active and victorious over death, the faith in the resurrection, in the influence of the Holy Spirit, in the gift of tongues, and in the power of the Church, became firmly established. We shall describe the organization of the Church of Jerusalem, its first trials, and its first
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