“Putting together all that has been said, we get the impression that, in respect to the Gentile Christians in the second half of the Apostolic age, heathenism was the vastly predominant power that partly from without threatened the Church, and partly from within prepared the most hazardous disputes. It was an anti-Christian gnosis proceeding from heathen ideas; frequently also a moral error stained with heathen licentiousness, that became dangerous to souls. On the other hand, according to all the documents of that later apostolic time that we possess, Judaism, broken as a political power, was no longer a dangerous opponent of the Church of Christ as a spiritual power; the time in which Judaizing errorists possessed a powerful influence over spirits was visibly passed.”[24] With such a preview, made up from writers of such authority and ability, the fact of the existence of an immense amount of pagan residuum in Christianity is placed beyond question. The reader may be surprised; may shrink from such facts. But shrinking from facts, or denying them, does not remove or destroy them. Facts are immortal. He who will take the trouble to follow through the successive chapters will see by what means, and in what ways, Christianity was corrupted, and whence came the pagan residuum that yet remains. Suggestions in outline will also be found, as to how the remaining residuum can be removed. FOOTNOTES: [1] It was the next day. [2] _History of Rome_, by Thomas H. Dyer, LL.D., p. 295, New York and London, 1877. [3] _The Old Roman World_, by John Lord, LL.D., chap. xiii., p. 558 ff., New York, 1873. [4] _Outlines of the History of Religions_, by Prof. C. P. Tiele, translated from the Dutch by J. E. Carpenter, pp. 242, 244. London and Boston, 1877. [5] _Epitome Annalium Cardinalis Baronii, a Spondano._ In Dues Partes. p. 79, Lugduni, 1686. [6] _De Inventore Rerum_, lib. v., cap. i., Venetus, 1490. [7] _Antiquities of France_, lib. 2, cap. 1. [8] _Faux Visage de l’Antiquité._ [9] Which are to be found in the edition printed with the king’s privilege, at Lyons, by William Rouille, anno 1556. [10] _Conformity between Ancient and Modern Ceremonies_, Leyden, 1677, pp. 4, 5. For the original, see _Veterum Romanorum Religio_, Guilielmo du Choul, Amstelædami, 1685, p. 216. [11] _Middleton’s Works_, vol. iii., pp. 117, 118, London, 1752. See also Aringhus, _Rom. Subter._, tom. 1, lib. i., c. 21. [12] _Last Results of Persian Research_, in _Outlines of the Philosophy of History_, by C. C. J. Bunsen, chap. 3, sec. 1, part 1, of First Part, London, 1854. [13] _History of the Corruption of Christianity_, vol. ii., pp. 441, 442, Birmingham, 1782. [14] _The Irish Race in the Past and the Present_, by Rev. Aug. Thebaud, S. J., p. 63, New York, 1876. [15] _Christ and Other Masters_, by Charles Hardwick, M.A., part 2, p. 183, Cambridge, 1857. [16] _The Church in the Catacombs_, etc., by Chas. Maitland, M.D., p. 306, London, 1846.