This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...meeting of the illustrious three, Peter, Paul and John, so is it the last. Peter's day of work was almost spent; the foundation of the Church which he had it in charge to lay was almost complete. Paul, who was legitimate successor to the James of Herod's persecution, was but beginning his work, for to him belonged the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...meeting of the illustrious three, Peter, Paul and John, so is it the last. Peter's day of work was almost spent; the foundation of the Church which he had it in charge to lay was almost complete. Paul, who was legitimate successor to the James of Herod's persecution, was but beginning his work, for to him belonged the building up of the main part of the structure. John's work was yet in the future; he was to take it up at the point where Paul left it and put on roof and cornice.1 "It was his vocation," says M. de Pressense, "to preserve the most precious jewels in the treasury of Christ's revelations, and to bring to light the most sacred and sublime mysteries of the Gospel. In order to fulfil this mission, he must needs wait until the Church was ready for such exalted teaching."3 We have then in John the spectacle of a man long held in leash, remaining under protracted training, and whose main work in life was not to be done till old age had silvered his hair and bowed his frame. Let no one, marking in himself the infirmities that rise when youth lies far in the background, say that his day of work is past. The experience of age may well compensate the world for any abatement of youthful impulse. 1 "Each of the Three has his distinct place in the first formation of the early Church. Peter is the Founder, Paul the Propagator, John the Finisher--Peter the Apostle of the rising dawn, Paul of the noon in its heat and in its clearness, John of the sunset."--Stanley, Sermons and Essays on the Apostolical Age, p. 4. - Early Years of Christianity, p. 374. This Jerusalem life of the Apostle, which lasted so far as we know for twenty years or more after the Ascension--of what sort was it, and how did it prepare him for his later wo...
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