Author Archives: Ivor C. Fletcher
THE INCREDIBLE HISTORY OF GOD’S TRUE CHURCH – (5)
CHAPTER FIVE – THE UTMOST BOUNDS OF THE WEST OF St. Paul’s journey to Britain, a point of great importance in the history of the gospel, and of the Protestant church, we fortunately possess as substantial evidence as any historical fact can require. “Some of our most valuable Ecclesiastical historians have no scruple in acceding…
THE INCREDIBLE HISTORY OF GOD’S TRUE CHURCH – (4)
CHAPTER FOUR – THE GLASTONBURY STORY THERE can be few places in the whole of Britain so steeped in folklore, superstition and mystery as the little town of Glastonbury, tucked away in the heart of rural Somerset. A place of pilgrimage for thousands even in this scientific age of the late twentieth century, a strange…
THE INCREDIBLE HISTORY OF GOD’S TRUE CHURCH – (3)
CHAPTER THREE – DID JESUS VISIT BRITAIN? AT least four entirely separate traditions exist in the West of England relating to Jesus as a boy or young man having visited this part of Britain prior to His ministry. This tradition has even been set to music in Blake’s famous hymn “Jerusalem”: “And did those feet…
THE INCREDIBLE HISTORY OF GOD’S TRUE CHURCH – (2)
CHAPTER TWO – LAND OF THE CELTS WHO were the Celtic peoples that inhabited Britain and much of Europe during the time of Chnst? Why did such people have Asiatic style war chariots? And why did the Belgae of Southern England have palm trees, of all things, on their coins? Diodorus Siculus, writing in 60…
THE INCREDIBLE HISTORY OF GOD’S TRUE CHURCH – (1)
CHAPTER ONE – THE SETTING “For mountains, bridges, rivers, churches and fair women, Britain is past compare.” (Martial). I have before me a Bible Atlas showing the growth of the early Christian Church to the time of Constantine. In common with other publications of this type, it traces the establishment of the Church in Britain…
