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Excerpt from Hindrances to the Work of the Church in the World: A Series of Sermons In order to understand and appreciate this work aright we must necessarily first understand the con dition of the world itself. Because the Church's work is relative - relative to man's wants, and to man's moral state. The restoration of a building implies the knowledge of the architect's original design, and of the subsequent deviations from it. The healing of a patient requires the knowledge of his disease, and of the divergence of his organs from health and soundness. So the work of the Church in the world is not what it would have been were the world without Sin, but bears a relation to the fallen, corrupt, and sinful state of mankind on earth. In fact, the whole institution of the Church by its Divine Founder is in thought, as in fact, subsequent to, and conditional upon, the fall and ruin of mankind by sin. 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.