Balder Ex-Libris - Jowett George F.Review of books rare and missing2024-03-16T01:56:42+00:00urn:md5:aa728a70505b2fae05796923271581c2DotclearJowett George F. - The drama of the lost disciplesurn:md5:3ac33bd94179cb67b52f9404826081452013-08-13T03:02:00+01:002013-08-13T02:07:40+01:00balderJowett George F.Anglo-SaxonChristChristianityEnglandIsraƫlProtestant <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Jowett_George_F_-_The_drama_of_the_lost_disciples_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Jowett George F.</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The drama of the lost disciples</strong><br />
Year : 1961<br />
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It was Edmund Burke who wrote, 'People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors', and it is certainly true to say that only a very real knowledge of what God has done for and through the British race in the days that are past can give confidence and courage with which to face the unknown in this era of crisis and tragedy. This is one of the major reasons for my satisfaction and pleasure in the privilege accorded to me of introducing this most interesting and instructive book to all those who are concerned with facts, not fancies. So much rubbish has been written concerning Britain's pagan past and so many attempts have been made to destroy our justifiable pride in the very real achievement of our race that we welcome unreservedly one more book devoted to the purpose of informing our people of the glorious Christian heritage that was bequeathed to us in the first four centuries. Here the faith of Christ was firmly founded soon after the Passion and Resurrection of our Lord and here also the first Christian Churcl1 in all the world outside of Jerusalem was erected by the original disciple and followers of the Incarnate Word. It is fashionable in these days for our leaders in Church and State to make the pilgrimage to Rome to seek economic security and ecclesiastical unity, but this book reminds us very forcibly that in those early days while the Roman Empire \Vas still pagan, men braved the fury of the elements and the peril of the sword to journey to the Britannic Isles in order to proclaim the Gospel of love, light and liberty, and then as the Heralds of the Cross to bear it from Glastonbury and lana, Bangor and Lindisfarne, to the far places of the earth, for Britain, not Rome, was then the Lighthouse of Europe. <strong>...</strong></p>