Why, in meditating on Christianity, are we to shut our eyes to the depravation that overtook it when placed amid unfavourable social conditions, and to confine our gaze to the brighter qualities which it developed in the healthier atmosphere of the West?
This quote challenges the tendency to overlook the negative aspects of Christianity's development in unfavorable social conditions.
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