A History Of The Church Of The Brethren In Kansas Classic Reprint

Excerpt from A History of the Church of the Brethren in Kansas History is one of our most important sciences. Dur ing the last fifty years the science of History has come into its place as one of our most valuable assets. We now realize that only as we know the history of nations, movements, organizations, and peoples, can we under stand their nature, their significance, and their probable direction and end. We do not expect to understand any thing today without going into its history. This is true of the various sciences, philosophy, and art, as well as the modern human institutions. History is the key to the understanding of life, and therefore to the solution of our human problems. All our moral and ethical prob lems rest upon history, and our religious ideas and forms have an historical background, the knowledge of which is necessary to make them intelligible and vital. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.