Anniversary AddressesCongregational Sunday School and Publishing Company, 1894 - 517 pages |
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Page 38
... morality and religion should be perpetual themes of disputation . The facts of science , once settled , accum- ulate as a fund . The skill of one generation is trans- mitted to another , and every invention becomes a stepping - stone to ...
... morality and religion should be perpetual themes of disputation . The facts of science , once settled , accum- ulate as a fund . The skill of one generation is trans- mitted to another , and every invention becomes a stepping - stone to ...
Page 41
... moral leper who shall never taint the air of your home . And could we find a being whose settled convictions reversed all the obligations of the decalogue , we should find a fiend . To expect a right life and conduct with fundamentally ...
... moral leper who shall never taint the air of your home . And could we find a being whose settled convictions reversed all the obligations of the decalogue , we should find a fiend . To expect a right life and conduct with fundamentally ...
Page 44
... moral interests of man , lie in the foreground of human vision ; if not always recognized , yet , when pointed out , recognizable . How often have . pagan minds asserted the very obligations which their lives have repudiated , and ...
... moral interests of man , lie in the foreground of human vision ; if not always recognized , yet , when pointed out , recognizable . How often have . pagan minds asserted the very obligations which their lives have repudiated , and ...
Page 45
... other relations , and the views we take here so lie at the foundation of all we shall be and do as moral beings and human beings , - - fashioning our whole career in this universe of RESPONSIBILITY FOR RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES . 45.
... other relations , and the views we take here so lie at the foundation of all we shall be and do as moral beings and human beings , - - fashioning our whole career in this universe of RESPONSIBILITY FOR RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES . 45.
Page 47
... moral delin- quencies , of a man mature in age and sane in mind the court never inquires , Did he know the exact law or penalty ? The murderer might plead that he had never read the statute , or that he supposed the penalty to be not ...
... moral delin- quencies , of a man mature in age and sane in mind the court never inquires , Did he know the exact law or penalty ? The murderer might plead that he had never read the statute , or that he supposed the penalty to be not ...
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