A HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH DURING THE FIRST SIX
CENTURIES.
[To THE EDITOR OF TRH "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—In your not unkind notice of my Church History in the Spectator of August 4th, you say:—" Doubtless there are satisfactory reasons for the division of time; but the first three hundred years of Christian history are so different from the next three hundred, that they can hardly be treated together except in the fashion of a chronicle." The reason why the first six centuries are treated in my book is, that it is intended to range with the late Archdeacon Hardwick's Mediooval and Reformation Histories, and therefore includes the whole of the period preceding his. I agree with the reviewer as to the difference between the first three and the next three centuries of Christian history, and have therefore treated them separately. The words of the review would, I think, be understood to mean that I had unsuccessfully attempted to combine them.—I am, Sir, So.,
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