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Excerpt from A Story of Six Decades
N the times of the Apostles, the opponents of Christianity thought to stamp out the truth by the iron heel of oppression, or to consume it by the fires of persecution. The disciples were scattered abroad, but the means taken to destroy only made them stronger in their faith; and, in every place to which they were driven, centres of influence were formed, whence new churches speedily came into being. Thus martyrs have ever been the seed of the church. The experience of the early Christians was repeated, with essentially the same features, in the days when the Puritans of Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay began their history. 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.
