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. 1854 Excerpt: ...between principalities and powers battling in mid-sky. The battle, like that seen in the Apocalypse, has been cast down to earth. It is to be waged man with man, mind with mind, word with word; not in councils, consistories, chapters, or conclaves, but in each circle, in every walk, amid all work, in every class, and ...
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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. 1854 Excerpt: ...between principalities and powers battling in mid-sky. The battle, like that seen in the Apocalypse, has been cast down to earth. It is to be waged man with man, mind with mind, word with word; not in councils, consistories, chapters, or conclaves, but in each circle, in every walk, amid all work, in every class, and at all firesides through universal society. That system, therefore, that best arms and trains a whole people for the conflict, and practises the popular mind in a Christian logic, is the one in peculiar requisition at this time at the West; especially in view of the exigencies of the formative era. In that seething caldron of mind, where a mechanical union is fast fermenting into a chemical one, and each individual particle, with its peculiar attractions and antagonisms, is struggling into fresh combinations and a new social order, that system that best arms each individual element with the affinities of truth and love, will insure the most beneficent ultimate combination, and will most effectually eliminate from it superstitions, despotisms, and misbeliefs. Liberty, therefore, as applying itself to the mind of the million, is the mightiest power for the church against spiritual usurpation and error. The freest church organizations, or those with the least of the hierarchical element clinging to them, can alone encounter successfully that hierarchical despotism that is now projecting its portentous shadows over the West. Freedom alone can fight despotism. Churches trammelled by the still cleaving, though partially broken fetters, are disabled for that battle. In their attempted blows at their foe they are liable to brain themselves by the fragments of their clinging chaina In a simple game of despotism, Eome can have no rival. Hers alone is co...
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