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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.

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