...Apostles at the time, and see whether those promises are applicable to any religion but one. He promised that He would be with them to the end of the world — which meant, of course, their successors, if it meant anything — and for more than eighteen hundred years...

...the world ye shall have tribulation." I have thought this meant that their faith should be tried, but that he would be with them to the end of the world, and the chastisement of their peace should be upon him. Jesus was as a root out of dry ground. Faith...