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In this reverent survey, Leonard Woolsey Bacon traces the progress of American Christianity from the fits and starts of early Christian colonization, through crucial eras of revival and turmoil such as the Great Awakening, up to his own time near the beginning of the twentieth century. His sweeping summary highlights how, in spite of disparate Christian expressions, the nation maintained a...

now included in the United States. Not until more than forty years after the attempt of Ponce de Leon did the expedition of the ferocious Menendez effect a permanent establishment on the coast of Florida. In September, 1565, the foundations of the oldest city in the United States, St. Augustine, were laid with solemn religious rites by the toil of the first negro slaves; and the event was signalized by one of the most horrible massacres in recorded history, the cold-blooded and perfidious extermination,
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