Excerpt from The Catacombs of Rome as Illustrating the Church of the First Three Centuries The writer believes that the argument derived from the Catacombs of Rome, In defence of primi tive truth, is but little known in this country, and that he might therefore be doing some service by placing it in an accessible form. To most readers it will be a new chapter in the past history of the Church. Hitherto, the descriptions have been locked Up in ponderous folios, or foreign languages, with the exception of. Two or threesmall volumes pub lished in England. He believes that no work on this Subject has ever been printed in this country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.