Excerpt from The Church Before the Flood
One loves to trace the stream upward to its fountain. Christianity was first preached in Paradise. Adam and Eve were the first believers. Abel was the first Christian martyr. They lived and loved, and prayed and praised, in the grey and misty dawn. They looked forward and upward to the rising of the Sun of righteousness, and rejoiced in the increasing light. In their faith and hope, the "woman's seed" was all and in all. By faith Enoch and Noah walked with God. These ancient saints did not live on bread alone, but by every word that proceeded from the mouth of God.
The Church I ever regard, not as an ecclesiastical hierarchy - Episcopate or Presbyterate - however useful these features may be in their place, but as the company of faithful Christians, the congregation of all believers.
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