This is not the first time that the Christian Church has been up against a hostile world. The issues which the Younger Churches face today were present in a marked degree to the Church of the first centuries. Relating his study of the early Church to his missionary experience, the author gives us a new presentation of Church History which has its centre in what he describes as "the greatest event in modern history" - the emergence of the Universal Church. Contents Include THE RUIN OF THE WORLD AND THE UPBUILDING OF THE CHURCH The fall of a city The City of God Remaineth The Churches and the Church THE HEROIC AGE IS COME AGAIN The Early Church and the Younger churches Emperor Worship-Then and now The Universal Church and its Local Manifestation EDUCATION FOR WORLD-CHURCHMANSHIP The World-Church and Religious Education The Church-World Denying and World-Affirming Churchmanship in the Universal Church