Miscellanies, Literary and Religious
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781150081422
Paperback|9781150081422
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1879 Excerpt: ... Appeal to England. 2 7 warning, that if she imagines that Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts (things deserving of all honour in their proper place and degree); that tact and courtesy and gentlemanly manners will save her from moral decay and social and national dissolution; if she dallies with Positivism, Pantheism, or Materialism; if she relies on secular teaching in her Elementary Schools in her towns, and in her Colleges and Universities; if she thinks that she can educate without the Scriptures and Prayers and the Creeds; if she discards from her School System the dogmatic truths of Christianity concerning the Incarnation of the Son of God, the Baptismal Covenant, the doctrine of Communion with Christ in the Holy Eucharist, and of the Resurrection of the Body, and the consequent sanctity of Marriage, and the sinfulness of Harlotry and Intemperance; if she forgets the Supremacy of Almighty God in the affairs of a Nation; and if she ceases to perceive the necessity of the practical acknowledgment of that Supremacy in her national Councils, and by maintaining her national faith and worship; if she gives facilities to Divorce, and connives at Adultery, and makes it to be an occasion for another Marriage, and for another breach of it; if she legalizes Marriages which God has declared to be incestuous: if she desecrates the Lord's Day, and secularizes and profanes the Places dedicated to Him, --her churches and her churchyards, --she will sink into as bad a state as that of heathen Rome as described in Holy Scripture. It is with reluctance that I touch on the following topic at all; but in times when many persons seem to forget what we owe in social and domestic respects to Christianity, and appear to think that Christianity is only one among many successiv...
| ISBN-13 | 9781150081422 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1150081422 |
| Weight | 1.22 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.84 In |
| List Price | $25.04 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 376 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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