The apostles of Jesus Christ. A brief account of their lives and acts and of the rise and expansion of the Christian Church up to A.D.68. The book was written with a view to having the reader carefully read and study the text with that of the Acts of the Apostles. It is needless to call attention to the fact that the period of the Christian Church under consideration is very important and vital, for the reason that the gospel of Jesus Christ, as the founders understood it, is there treated as originally taught, before false teachers upset the simple doctrines and changed the ordinances, as established by the Savior and as perpetuated by his Apostles. During this period, the gospel was rejected by the Jews, and was transmitted from Jerusalem, through the teachings of Paul, to the Gentile nations in Syria, and westward through Asia Minor to Rome, there to be extended, intermixed with heathen doctrines, to the modern nations of the earth. 284 pages
