been prevalent at different times 293

The Church theoretically is a living, growing, self-adapting
organism 295

She is, in fact, the growing, moral sense of mankind organised
and developed under a supernatural tutelage 295


CHAPTER XII.

UNIVERSAL HISTORY AND THE CLAIMS OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.


We must now consider the Church in relation to history and external
historical criticism 297

1st. The history of Christianity; 2nd. The history of other
religions 298

Criticism has robbed the Bible of nearly all the supposed internal
evidences of its supernatural character 298

It has traced the chief Christian dogmas to non-Christian sources 300

It has shown that the histories of other religions are strangely
analogous to the history of Christianity 300

And to Protestantism these discoveries are fatal 302