Chapter 13

WHY CHRISTIANITY DID NOT ARREST THE RUIN OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.

The Victories of Christianity came too late--Small Number of Converts when Christianity was a renovating Power--Their comparative Unimportance in a political and social View for three Centuries--The Church constructs a Polity for Itself rather than seeks to change established Institutions--Rapid Corruption of Christianity when established, and Adoption of Pagan Ideas and Influences--No Renovation of worn-out Races-- No Material on which Christianity could work--Not the Mission of the Church to save Empires, but the Race--A diseased Body must die