Identifier: storyofourchrist00bird (find matches)
Title: The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Bird, Frederic Mayer, 1838-1908 Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901
Subjects: Church history
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., Peerless Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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THE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIANITY. 473 be his friend was as dangerous as to be bis enemy. He bad but one idea: tbeking was absolute and sacred, and he was tbe king. Resistance to his will, oreven remonstrance, was treason, sacrilege, blasphemy. If it had ever occurredto him to differ with the pope and the system then in vogue, something—prob-ably the whole machinery of tyranny—would have broken. What he took forreligion was the hobby which he chose to ride: the mass was to be crammeddown mens throats, the cause to be pushed by edicts, by cannon, by antos-da-fe,because it was his royal will; it was right, because he said so.
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