Christian Institutes
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ISBN13: 9780217812115
Paperback|9780217812115
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: But, however all this shall be, whatever is the duty, and whatever may be the performances of others in schools or elsewhere, certain it is, that we of the Universities must bear our own burden; and feeling, as we do, exceedingly anxious for the particular kind of help and co-operation of which we have spoken, it is, to say the least, quite as much our concern, to see that all be right as respects ourselves. It will not avail to bind heavy burdens, and lay them on other men's shoulders, when we ourselves will not touch them with one of our fingers. Wherefore we must settle it as beyond dispute, that at all events, sooner or later, (though soonest is much the best, ) here or elsewhere; if not before, at least here, the necessary work of which we have spoken must be done. If we advert to the vast numbers that resort to us, year after year, the season in life at which they come, the different ranks and classes of society from which they spring?varying one among another, but all agreeing in being such as have the most extensive influences on the public welfare; and constituting therefore, together, in their combination and sum total, an aggregate amount of inestimable importance and concern;?how is it possible not to feel deeply on this subject; not to feel, that, under such circumstances, any thing like a suspension or postponement of the most momentous of all institution, must, in despite of whatever other pretensions and claims, be censurable in the extreme ? No In the first place, whatever it is that has been gained elsewhere, be it much or little, must, as respects the place, be favourably entertained, protected from damage and loss, and furthered and promoted here. And the next consideration, of incalculable importance likewise, is, that, as respects the time, it must be effec...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217812115 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217812112 |
| Weight | 1.71 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.19 In |
| List Price | $33.40 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 534 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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