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A Complete History Of the Christian Religion
to A. d. 200. BY Charles B. Waite. a NJ.
Second edition. Chicago: @. V. WAITE Co.
This volume, we are informed in the
prospectus, is the result of years of
laborious investigation. All the writings
Of the first two centuries have been con-
suited, and those of the fathers of the
church in the language in which they
were written, and flood of light has
been thrown upon many questions here
tofore involved in obscuritY The time
has been divided into periods, and events
have been arranged in regular and con-
secutive order The author assures us
that he has written in the interest of no
church, creed or dogma, but has
simply aimed to produce a reliable his
tory of the Christian religion based upon
unquestioned historical records. The
work includes the origin and history of
all the gospels, not only the four which
became canonical, but those which have
been called aprocryphal Accounts are
given of more than forty gospels. Three
of the most famous of the so-called
apocryphal gospels have been taken up
and critical comparisons with the
canonical gospels instituted for the pur-
pose of showing which were first writ
ten. One chapter is devoted to ''the lost
gospels of the first century" Another
to "the gospel of the Hebrews" The
gospel of Marcion, compiled A. D. 145,
is reproduced, and sketches are given of
nearly hundred Christian writers of
the two first centuries.
While we are assured that the book is
not written to oppose the Christian reli-
gion, but only to arrive at positive truth,
it must be regarded as an audacious at
tack upon orthodoxy, inasmuch as the
author, besides many other startling con-
Predictions of the accepted gospels. at
tempts to prove, by negative testimony,
that Jesus Christ was not a miracle
worker, and consequently that the mira
cles attributed to Him are apocryphal.
1t will be for theologians, and those who
may feel inclined to go back to the early
centuries, to discuss the questions the
author has raised, to determine whether
his deductions are sustained by higher
evidence than that upon which the gos-
pels have for centuries been received by
the Christian world.
The volume consists of nearly five
hundred pages, and is handsomely print
ed on good paper. Price, bound in
cloth, s. 80.
Color in Dress, a Manual for Ladies. BY
VIM. and G. Audsley. Adapted from the
London edition. Philadelphia: JoRDoN
BROTHERS.
This little work, by the brothers Auds-
ley, has been received with such appro-
baton in England, and has been &C
knowledged by leading artists and mo-
distes to be so correct, that its production
in this country cannot fail to extend the
domain of good taste and knowledge
of harmonious arrangement Of colors.
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