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HISTORY
CHRISTIAI^ CHUECH
PHILIP SCHAFP
Ghristianus sum: Ghristiani nUiil a me alienum puto
VOL. III.
NICENE AND POST-NICENE CHRISTIANITY
From Constantine tiik Great to Gregory the Great A.D. 311-600
THIRD REVISION.
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
COFJBIOHT, 1867, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER & CO.
Copyright, 1884, by I'HIUP SGHAFF
TROW'S
PRKITIKS AND OOOKSmOINQ COMPANY,
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DEDICATED
TO
HIS FELLOW-STUDENTS AND LIFE-LONG FKIEND8
Rev. Dk. W. JULIUS MANN
PHILADELPHIA AMD
GUSTAV SCHWAB
NEW YORK BY
THE AUTHOR
My Dear Friends :
It is now nearly half a century since we studied Latin and Greek together in the Gymnasium of your native Stuttgart. I was then a stranger from Switzerland, but found in each of you the love of a friend and brother, and in your parents the affection of a father and mother, and afterward a hearty welcome on every visit from Tubingen or Halle or Berlin.
Forty years ago we met again in the United States, where Providence lias cast our lot. Since that time the friendship of early youth has silently deepened and ripened with advancing age, never disturbed by the difference of occupation or denomination. One of you as Pastor and Professor of Theology in the Lutheran Church, the other as the head of a mercantile house and prominent layman in the Episcopal Church, and I as a theological teacher in the German Reformed and cognate Presbyterian Church : we have labored harmoniously in the service of the same Lord, and endeavored, each in his own way, to make our European education useful to America.
God has richly blessed us all in the land of our adoption, the land of our wives, of our children and children's children, and made it dearer to us than even the beloved fatherland. "Der Herr macht die Heimath zur Fremde und die Fremde zur Heimath."
" Gottes Liebe macht die Zeit Gleich der slissen Ewigkeit."
And now, standing on the threshold of old age, we may look back with gratitude and praise to the cloudless friendship of our youth and manhood, and look forward with faith and hope to a holier and happier brotherhood in our future and final home.
" Dahin, dahin geht unser Weg."
Believe me, in the bonds of an old and ever young friendship,
Faithfully yours,
Philip Schaff.
New York, January, 1884.