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Table of Contents
- Title Page
- CHAPTER I. PROVIDENTIAL PREPARATIONS FOR THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA--SPIRITUAL REVIVAL THROUGHOUT CHRISTENDOM, AND ESPECIALLY IN THE CHURCH OF SPAIN.
- CHAPTER II. SPANISH CONQUEST-THE PROPAGATION, DECAY, AND DOWNFALL OF SPANISH CHRISTIANITY.
- CHAPTER III. THE PROJECT OF FRENCH EMPIRE AND EVANGELIZATION--ITS WIDE AND RAPID SUCCESS--ITS SUDDEN EXTINCTION.
- CHAPTER IV. ANTECEDENTS OF PERMANENT CHRISTIAN COLONIZATION--THE DISINTEGRATION OF CHRISTENDOM--CONTROVERSIES--PERSECUTIONS.
- CHAPTER V. THE PURITAN BEGINNINGS OF THE CHURCH IN VIRGINIA---ITS DECLINE ALMOST TO EXTINCTION.
- CHAPTER VI. THE NEIGHBOR COLONIES TO VIRGINIA-MARYLAND AND THE CAROLINAS.
- CHAPTER VII. THE DUTCH CALVINIST COLONY ON THE HUDSON AND THE SWEDISH LUTHERAN COLONY ON THE DELAWARE--THEY BOTH FALL UNDER THE SHADOW OF GREAT BRITAIN.
- CHAPTER VIII. THE PLANTING OF THE CHURCH IN NEW ENGLAND--PILGRIM AND PURITAN.
- CHAPTER IX. THE MIDDLE COLONIES: THE JERSEYS, DELAWARE, AND PENNSYLVANIA--THE QUAKER COLONIZATION--GEORGIA.
- CHAPTER X. THE AMERICAN CHURCH ON THE EVE OF THE GREAT AWAKENING--A GENERAL VIEW.
- CHAPTER XI. THE GREAT AWAKENING.
- CHAPTER XII. CLOSE OF THE COLONIAL ERA--THE GERMAN CHURCHES--THE BEGINNINGS OF THE METHODIST CHURCH.
- CHAPTER XIII. RECONSTRUCTION.
- CHAPTER XIV. THE SECOND AWAKENING.
- CHAPTER XV. ORGANIZED BENEFICENCE.
- CHAPTER XVI. CONFLICTS OF THE CHURCH WITH PUBLIC WRONGS.
- CHAPTER XVII. A DECADE OF CONTROVERSIES AND SCHISMS.
- CHATTER XVIII. THE GREAT IMMIGRATION.
- CHAPTER XIX. THE CIVIL WAR--ANTECEDENTS AND CONSEQUENCES.
- CHAPTER XX. AFTER THE WAR.
- CHAPTER XXI. THE CHURCH IN THEOLOGY AND LITERATURE.
- CHAPTER XXII. TENDENCIES TOWARD A MANIFESTATION OF THE UNITY OF THE AMERICAN CHURCH.
- INDEX.