CONTENTS
[Preface] 3 PART ONE The Church [What Should the Church of the Present Be?] 5 [The Church and the Temple] 9 [Infant Baptism] 16 [Conditions of Membership] 25 [Conditions of Admission] 25 [Agencies] 28 [Conditions] 28 [Conditions of Continued Membership] 29 [The Worship] 32 [The Apostles’ Teaching] 36 [The Fellowship] 38 [Breaking Bread] 39 [Prayers] 40 [Singing] 40 [Polity] 42 [The Word of God] 42 [Names] 43 [Congregational Independence] 44 [Elders] 45 [Deacons] 47 [Evangelists] 47 PART TWO The Falling Away [The Falling Away Predicted] 49 [The Falling Away] 54 [The Confessional] 63 [Indulgences] 67 [John Tetzel] 69 PART THREE The Reformation In Europe [John Wyckliffe] 74 [Translates the Bible Into English] 75 [William Tyndale] 79 [Erasmus Arrives in England] 80 [Tyndale Translates the Bible Into English] 82 [Goes to Hamburg] 84 [Bishop of London Supplies Money] 86 [Betrayed and Murdered] 88 [Martin Luther] 89 [A Friend Indeed] 90 [Becomes a Monk] 91 [Makes a Pilgrimage to Rome] 94 [Professor of Theology at Wittenburg] 96 [The Ninety-five Theses] 97 [Debates With John Eck and Burns the Papal Bull] 100 [Before the Diet of Worms] 103 [Under Imperial Ban] 110 [A Change Comes Over Luther] 112 [Retains What Is Not Forbidden] 115 [Origin of Protestantism] 116 [The Reformation in Switzerland] 122 [The Reformation in England] 126 [Changes Made by Edward VI] 129 [“Bloody Mary”] 131 [Elizabeth, the Protestant Queen] 133 [The Reformation in Scotland] 138 [The Independents] 138 [Haldane and Aikman] 141 [The Scotch Baptists] 142 [The Separatists] 144 PART FOUR The Restoration Movement In America [Spiritual Unrest in Many Places] 148 [Barton W. Stone] 153 [Confronted by Many Difficulties] 153 [Ordained to the Ministry] 157 [Remarkable Meeting at Cane Ridge] 160 [“A Time of Distress”] 163 [Last Will and Testament] 166 [The Witnesses’ Address] 167 [Practices Modified in Many Particulars] 169 [“Shakerism”] 170 [The Work Prospers] 171 [Thomas Campbell] 175 [Conflict With the Seceders] 175 [The Declaration and Address] 180 [Alexander Campbell] 188 [Subject and Act of Baptism Settled] 188 [The Redstone Association] 195 [A Wider Field] 199 [The Campbell-McCalla Discussion] 203 [Visits the Kentucky Baptists] 207 [John Smith] 209 [Soul Struggles] 210 [Desires to Preach] 213 [Terrible Calamity] 215 [Preaches at Crab Orchard] 215 [The Christian Baptist] 217 [Fetters Cast Off] 218 [Resolves to Preach the Simple Gospel] 220 [“Ancient Order”—Baptists in Kentucky] 224 [Walter Scott] 231-236 [A Sincere Truth Seeker] 232 [Turning Point in His Life] 235 [Reformers in Other States—John Wright] 246 [Herman Christian Dasher] 249 [The Christians and Reformers Unite] 251