Excerpt from The Growth of the Church in Its Organization and Institutions: Being the Croall Lectures for 1886 The Christian Church, possessed of a divine life from its birth, answering to the needs of humanity, continually adapting itself to the social circumstances in which it was cast, or rather, from its plasticity, being moulded by them, not only survives, but flourishes in this age, so different from that in which it arose; and promises to live on, changed and changing, but still blessing and blessed. It is diffi cult to recognise the oneness of the Church of Ethiopia and the Church of England, but they have both issued from the same source, and are both con tinuous with the Church of the Apostles. The one has had an African environment and the other a European. 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.