"Here [the reader] will find an historical record of a new power at work in the world. It not only revolutionized religion but transformed man. ... For its sake frail men and women faced loss, persecution and death with serene and happy courage. Such are the facts of history which our reader will learn from this book."
January 1, 1970
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