Heortology - A History of the Christian Festivals From Their Origin to the Present Day #261039

It has seemed to the author that the time for gather ing together the ascertained results derived from these and similar books has come. It is chiefly for theological students and the younger clergy that the following book is intended. Such a work as would make it easy to deal with the subject in sermons and catechetical instructions, and, at the same time, would give clearly and briefly all the information necessary for dealing with the question from the historical standpoint, avoid ing equally uncritical credulity and sceptical unbelief such a work seems to the author demanded by the circumstances of the time.