The Great Apostasy, Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History
CHAPTER I.
_Introduction: The Establishment of the Church of Christ_.
Conditions at beginning of Christian era.--Religious systems, Jewish, Pagan, and Samaritan.--Jewish sects and parties.--Law of Moses fulfilled and superseded.--Apostles chosen and ordained.-- Apostolic administration.--The Church established on the western hemisphere.--The "meridian of time."