Many believers are under the oppression of false apostles and seek fellowship in counterfeit churches. But they have been so blinded and brainwashed that they can hardly recognize their need for serious help. This book pinpoints the distinguishing characteristics of both true and false churches. It provides lessons that are extremely needed today, when all sorts of abuses and oppressive teachings have gained a foothold as false apostles take control of the airwaves. To achieve this, the book exposes the errors in interpretation and in the thinking about God's nature that lead people to false churches. It then offers believers the way forward. While many writers who have diagnosed the same problems in the church have prescribed a return to the early church model, "The Nature of the Apostolic Church" shows that this solution is defective as the first century church was itself imperfect. The solution, the book explains, lies in fixing the eyes of the church on Jesus and Him alone, thus moving the Body of Christ beyond restoration and into perfection. That is the church that Christ desires, one without any spot or blemish.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1919 Edition.

The following is the first collection of the WPA Papers that deal with Islam and Black Nationalism. These papers primarily deal with Chicago and were written under the auspices of the Black Historical & Benevolent Society called the Julius Rosenwald Fund. This fund was under the direction of the Illinois Writer's Project. Writer such as Arthur Huff Fauset, Jessie Fauset, Richard Wright, Zora Neal Hurston, Lillian Harper, and Arna Bontemps had poetry, sociological studies, and short stories written under direction of the IWP. Julius Rosenwald was a Jewish philanthropist that set up a fund before his death to give scholarships to blacks for school and to pay to collect materials on Black history and culture. The butler of Rosenwald went on to become a precinct captain and later a leader in the Moorish Science Temple. All the groups covered in these studies had connections with each other. Elijah Muhammad called Marcus Garvey and Noble Drew Ali "fine Muslims" and encouraged their followers to follow him as he was only "completing their mission." The studies here were done by Lillian Harper and Arna Bontemps. An appendix gives short notes on the leaders of the various groups and a bibliography gives books and articles to lead researchers to more material.