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for on all the larger land masses of the earth

except Australia and among all the more

numerous peoples and in all the areas of high

civilization Christianity had been introduced

before A.D. 1800. What now occurred was the

acquisition of fresh footholds in regions and

among peoples already touched, an

expansion of unprecedented extent from

both the newer bases and the older ones, and

the entrance of Christianity into the large

majority of such countries, islands, peoples,

and tribes as had previously not been

touched....

“The nineteenth century spread of

Christianity was due primarily to a new burst

of religious life emanating from the Christian

impulse.... Never in any corresponding length

of time had the Christian impulse given rise

to so many new movements. Never had it had