CHAPTER V. 



THE CHURCH IN APOSTOLIC DAYS. 



PENTECOST — JERUSALEM DIVISION OF APOSTOLIC 



LABORS. 



Great Events. 



A.D. 33. MARTYRDOM OF ST. STEPHEN. 

 4-O. CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL. 

 44. MARTYRDOM OF ST. JAMES. 

 50. APOSTOLIC COUNCIL AT JERUSALEM. 

 66-7O. JERUSALEM BESIEGED AND DESTROYED. 



On the morning of the day of Pentecost, after 

 Christ's ascension, the number of His disciples in 

 Jerusalem included but one hundred and twenty. 

 But that Pentecostal day witnessed the outpouring 

 of the Spirit, according to His promise, and the 

 rapid increase in the number of believers. We 

 date, therefore, the formal establishment of the 

 Church from that day. Jerusalem was honored in 

 being its birth-place, and for many years after was 

 the seat of its chief Bishopric. The work begun 

 there spread rapidly to other places. The strangers 

 from different parts who had become converts to 

 Christianity on the day of Pentecost, when they 



