The Influence of Commerce Upon Christianity: A Prize Essay, Read in the Theatre, Oxford, June 28, 1854 |
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Page 32 - And the individual withers, and the world is more and more." But neither is it true that the world is lost in the man, that hope is to be confined to the extrication of the individual from a world that is corrupt and perishing. That same faith which teaches us to have hope for ourselves in
Page 8 - at first in the wide realm of darkness had combined into a steady and connected glow; the cords which had been loosely laid had become knotted into a net which encompassed and held fast the empire. In this case Christianity had been pent up, but in no narrow bounds, and it had lived and
Page 31 - her Past;" a charge to the Anglican Clergy, delivered in Trinity Church, Shanghae, October 20th, 1853. The Bishop seems to have more hopes of the religion of the rebels than have generally been entertained in England. But however this may be great benefits will be gained if the exclusive system be completely overthrown.
Page 23 - And in both these parts it is susceptable of infinite modifications. Whether, if all Christian men could be perfected as Christians, there would still remain that diversity of view which is apparent now among men who yet in the truest sense are Christians, may well be doubted: that they would
Page 7 - The Dutch had missions in the 16th century in Ceylon, Ambryna, Java, and Formosa. The king of Denmark sent a mission to the coast of Coromadel in 1706, which flourished during the whole of the last century under the auspices of the Christian Knowledge Society and the illustrous names of
Page 20 - that when a man was rich he should begin to practice virtue; we may say with more truth, that till a man has some leisure from the perpetual whirl of commercial pursuits, he cannot attend to the refinement of a polished and highly wrought state of society.
Page 24 - seeing the power of social opinion, look on the Church as a divinely appointed instrument to bring them to Christ; but it will include also those who hold the sacerdotal principle and make the priest a necessary mediator between the Christian and his Lord.
Page 7 - Schwartz and Kohlhoff, and has been the parent of some of the brightest successes of the present time at Tinnurlly and other places in the Madras presidency. In America Cromwell encouraged missions, as later did Boyle, from whose efforts the SPG was founded.
Page 23 - one of these looks upon Christianity as a system, a polity, with an external and visible aspect, but with a power over the unseen and the spiritual: it leads a man to throw himself into such a system, to submit to its laws,
Page 23 - trust to its ordinances and rules, and to be led and incited and even compelled by them into a complete submission to the will of God and a compliance with those spiritual conditions which are laid down for our performance in