Transcriber's Notes:

Variations in hyphenation are preserved as in the original. Examples include the following:

Christ-likeChristlike
make-shiftmakeshift

The following corrections have been made to the text:

page 32—people of England is of preëminent[original has preeminent] importance

page 59—feared to violate the immunities of the church."[ending quotation mark is missing in original]

page 188—sent messengers with an imploring petition to their coreligionists[original has correligionists] at London and Halle

page 296—It was an unpardonable offense[original has offence]

page 335—immediate adventism[original has hyphen between words]