Word: sin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lansdcape sin American Poetry" by Lucy Larcom...
...night by those who took advantage of the fine evening to hear the Rev. Lyman Abbott preach. Dr. Abbott took as his text, Matthews ix.: 22. The central idea of his sermon was that there is no purification without pain. The Bible, he says, dwells upon the remission of sin, rather than of penalty. Christ was a suffering God, for suffering is not imperfection, but the climax of character. It is suffering that reconciles man to God, and good men and bad men can be brought together only by mutuality of pain. The message then, of the New Testament...
...heard a most interesting sermon by the Rev. Lyman Abbott D. D., of Brooklyn, N. Y. He took as his text, Micah vii., 18th verse-first clause: Who is a God like unto Thee who pardoneth iniquity? He said that the Christian religion is the only religion that pardons sins and that sin shall be taken from him that is weary of it but penalty shall not be removed...
...live with his four brothers and his wife in the forest for thirteen years. After thirteen years of incredible adventures they all return and fighting begins. The war is described interestingly for 100 pages, the other 1000 are extremely tedious. Udostheera is victorious, but had to commit a sin to gain complete victory. He returns in triumph to the great joy of all the inhabitants...
...live with their husbands at the age of thirteen or fourteen. In case the husband dies, the wife remains with her father-in-law, and is never reduced to beggary. The widow cannot marry again for she is thought to have lost her husband on account of some former sin, which must be expiated. These customs on the whole produce happy unions, and devoted families. The constant atmosphere of high moral thought also give the Indians gravity of manner and dignity...