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...benefit to a small class.- (1) A vulgar religion appeals only to the lowest classes.- (D) The benefit is really slight-(a) as it does not bring true religion to the converts.- (E) They tend to breed disorder.- (1) They provoke hostility.- (a) Members. of the Army court martyrdom.- (b) The Army is composed largely of reformed "toughs."-(2) The methods engender defiance of the law: Saturday Review, vol. 56, pp. 491, 492; Public Opinion, p 369, 19th March...
...Islands of the Pacific.- (1) Sandwich Islands.- (2) New Hebrides (J. H. Dennis, p. 90). B. On Christians at home.- (a) They emphasize the essentials of Christianity.- (1) Universality (Bishop Littlejohn, sermon, p. 7, Oct. 11, 1877).- (2) Unselfishness (same ref. as above).- (b) Furnish examples of martyrdom and heroism (Ely volume, ch. XXII...
...only articles of fiction in the number is "Ignatius-Marty" by J. R. Oliver. As might be expected from him, the story is very well told. He describes the longing of a priest to suffer martyrdom at the hands of the Indians in behalf of his religion, and his lamentable flight when the time of trial comes...
...conducted the Vesper service yesterday and spoke to a fair sized audience, from the text, "Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief." Dr. Everett said: There are men today who are just as ardent, just as trustful in their faith in God, as there were in the days of martyrdom. Again there are men who are perfectly sincere in their belief, that there is nothing in the idea of a God who watches and cares for the mortals on the earth. But there is a third class, in whose hearts the cry of the poor father for a strengthening...
...memory of their heroism to future generations. Has she shown the proper spirit on the day when of all others some fitting token should be placed upon these tablets? Has she no time to pause a moment to offer up a few flowers at the shrine of their martyrdom, a few brief words of consecration within those hallowed walls...