Quadratus. A Tale of the World in the Church. [Church history stories ; v. 3; ] [Chronological table of events in the early church]

New York : Hunt & Easton ; Cincinnati : Cranston & Stowe, 1875, 1875. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 308 p. illus. 19 cm. ; "three illustrations" ; similar to OCLC: 123006762 and OCLC: 4240173 ; "Chronological table of events in the early church": p. [5]-6. ; LCCN: 07-14493 LC: PZ3.L566; PR4883.L66; Dewey: Fic ; "In the pages of the following tale I have endeavored to show some of the many difficulties with which Christianity had to contend, on its first introduction to the centers of civilization, not only from paganism and philosophy, but from every mode of life and the whole tone of thought then prevailing. It was an age at once of atheism and superstition; of boundless wealth and the most abject poverty; of reckless luxury and selfish cruelty; and against all these, with the long train of evils they bred and fostered, the simple Gospel story of the life of Jesus, as told by a few fishermen, was all this new power could boast. In the remaining volumes of this set of books on Church history I shall endeavor to present the most striking epochs and well-known historical characters in such a way as to link the apostolical age of Paul to that of his successor Luther, thus throwing light upon many dim pages of Church history, and noting the rise and progress of those errors that gradually crept in, so that Rome rivaled paganism in its evil and corruption, until Luther arose, and by his mighty voice awoke slumbering Europe to its need of a reformation."--Preface to Glaucia the Greek Slave, the first title in Emma Leslie's Church History Series ; green cloth with gold lettering ; ex-lib bookplate ; FINE.