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. 1894 Excerpt: ...as a revolutionary intellect, when at work, is always cruel; because its ideas are not framed with any regard to the way in which human affections are inwoven with an imperfect social organization. We will not ask the reader to consider the wisdom or the righteousness of this movement. We have only to say, seeing how ...
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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. 1894 Excerpt: ...as a revolutionary intellect, when at work, is always cruel; because its ideas are not framed with any regard to the way in which human affections are inwoven with an imperfect social organization. We will not ask the reader to consider the wisdom or the righteousness of this movement. We have only to say, seeing how cold and how fierce Christian theology has been thus far in history, Heaven save us from such theology as we should have if all the teachers of it were to be forever strangers to the duties and sanctities of home; if the doctrine of God.the Father were to be perpetually intrusted to the interpretation of men who know nothing of parental yearnings, sacrifices, and joys; if the hands of little children were never laid upon the grim features of a monkish creed! More self-denial has been exhibited in the Protestant order of a married clergy than the Catholic system nourishes or admits. The military hardships and fidelity of the Jesuits in their missionary enterprises look more dramatic; but the life-long, uncomplaining wrestle with poverty by the hearthstone, which is the general law with the Protestant ministry of our country now, and the bloom of the sternest virtues and the gentlest graces in such ungenial circumstances, are a more precious contribution to the glory of the Gospel than the average character of a drilled celibate priesthood can ever show. Had Hildebrand's idea been the law for all Christendom, the church would have lost from the army of her martyrs the wives of the poor modern Protestant clergy, who will largely swell the number of those who are made perfect through suffering, and go through much tribulation into the kingdom of heaven. Turn the eye for a moment from the righteousness of Hildebrand's movement, and raise the questio...
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Add this copy of Substance and Show: And Other Lectures to cart. $23.14, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2022 by Legare Street Press.
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