CHAPTER 10
THE COMMUNITY OF GOODS.
Acts 4:32
THE community of goods and its results next claim our attention in the
course of this sacred record of primitive Church life. The gift of
tongues and this earliest attempt at Christian communism were two
special features of apostolic, or perhaps we sho... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER 11
HONESTY AND PRETENCE IN THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH
Acts 4:36; Acts 6:1
THE exact period in the history of the apostolic Church at which we
have now arrived is a most interesting one. We stand at the very first
origin of a new development in Christian life and thought. Let us
observe it well,... [ Continue Reading ]