This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...make him something essentially different from what he was before, while Mr. Bryan still remained what he had been, so that they no longer stand on the same footing as formerly? Not at all. No such change has taken place. What then has happened? Only this, that Mr. Taft while yet remaining a citizen and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...make him something essentially different from what he was before, while Mr. Bryan still remained what he had been, so that they no longer stand on the same footing as formerly? Not at all. No such change has taken place. What then has happened? Only this, that Mr. Taft while yet remaining a citizen and as such on exactly the same level as Mr. Bryan, or any other man born in the United States, has been made a public official. IV. The Sacerdotal doctrine of the Christian ministry has for its basis a tradition respecting the origin of the Episcopate which was never thought of until after the rise of monarchial Bishops; there being no trace of it in the New Testament and the writings of the Apostolic Fathers. An historical investigation covering the whole ground of this assertion would here he both tedious and confusing, and, therefore, I have concluded to confine myself to one notable Church, that of Corinth. I have less hesitancy in imposing this limitation upon myself, because it will be conceded on all hands that the developments which took place in that Church are typical of what, with slight variations due to special circumstances, occurred in all the other Churches. The choice of this Church has been made because it is the Church of the New Testament times, the history of which is by common consent most fully covered by documentary records of unexceptionable character. The convenient, poorly lighted tunnel, of which we read so much in the controversial writings of Sacerdotalists, in their desperate efforts to carry the doctrine of Apostolic Succession back of A. D. 150, does not exist here; for the historical light of trustworthy documents shines with sufficient brightness clear through it. At the beginning of our era, Corinth was to...
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