Excerpt from A Century of Christian Progress: Showing Also the Increase of Protestantism and the Decline of PoperyThe family has always been, and will always be in this world, the basis Of social order, national purity, and Christian life; but it is not of itself sufficient to meet the case Of a general apostasy.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.