History
The contents of Christendom Astray was first published as a series of fortnightly lectures in Huddersfield, and then under the title of Twelve Lectures on the Teaching of the Bible in 1862. It was expanded to 18 chapters and republished as Christendom Astray From the Bible in 1884.
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