Word: sectarian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Conference has also resulted in much practical good work of a non-sectarian kind, such as visiting the poor, etc. A Church Congress has been formed in Great Britain to carry on this work on a larger scale. Another result has been the united action of all the English churches at a recent election in securing the use of the bible in the English common schools...
...They aim at reforms impossible by present parties. - (a) No state aid to sectarian institutions. - (b) Restriction of immigration. - (c) Uniform naturalization laws. - (d) Extension of term of probation...
...working as it can and will only in the hands of genius? His teaching, whatever it was, is part of the air we breathe, and has lost that charm of exclusion and privilege that kindled and kept alive the zeal of his acolytes while it was still sectarian or even heretical. but he has that surest safeguard against oblivion, that imperishable incentive to curiosity and interest that belongs to all original minds. His finest utterances do not merely nestle in the ear by virtue of their music, but in the soul and life, by virtue of their meaning. One would...
...religion of my country is a simple, natural religion. Discarding sectarian name, we call it Theism, always keeping clear the distinction between that and Deism. Deism is abstract, logical, negative in its nature; theism embodies the expressions of the devout and the revelations of God. Deism may believe in God, but that God is washed out by the ideas of the man himself. Deism and theism alike must embody themselves in creeds, rites and observances, which have unfortunately been allowed to obscure the grand issues of religion...
...Christianity, Islam, or Hindooism, its principles, though they may not be intelligible to more than one sect, should yet be so wide as to include all men and all religions. If you exclude any denomination or nationality, if you condemn others to eternal darkness and ignorance, your religion becomes sectarian and will excite hostility outside of its immediate adherents...