THE FORMATION OF CHRISTENDOM. PART SECOND. The Christian faith By T. W. ALLIES. CATHOLIC PUBLICATION HOUSE. 126 Nassau Street, New York. 1869. The right of translation is reserved. ADVERTISEMENT. In the six chapters forming the first volume of this work I was engaged in describing the operation of Christianity, as it took the individual human soul for its unit, purified it, and wrought in it a supernatural life. I began with the consummation of the old world in its state of the highest civilisation united with the utmost moral degeneracy; I proceeded thence to the new creation of individual man; compared heathen with Christian man in the persons of Cicero and St. Augustine; drew out certain effects upon the world around of Christian life, as seen in those professing it, and viewed Christian marriage as restoring the primary relation between man and woman, and thus remaking the basis of human society, while the Virginal Life exhibited the crown and efflorescence of the most distinctive Christian grace in the soul. I had thus, beginning with the stones of which the building is formed, reached the building itself; and the next thing was to consider the Christian Church in its historical development as the Kingdom of Truth and Grace for while the soul of man is the unit with which it works, the word Christendom' betokens a society founded in Christ, made by Christ, stamped with the image of Christ. It is the first great epoch of such a |