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Page 1 - The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me?
Page 255 - Hotly charged — and sank at last. Charge once more, then, and be dumb! Let the victors, when they come, When the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall!
Page 129 - My associates have come to look upon the church and the ministry as the apologists and defenders of the wrong committed against the interests of the people...
Page 155 - Would the moral code stand Unshaken, and with it the reverence for law, the sense of duty towards the community, and even towards the generations yet to come ? Would men say " Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die " ? Or would custom, and sympathy, and a perception of the advantages which stable government offers to the citizens as a whole, and which orderly self-restraint offers to each one, replace supernatural sanctions, and hold in check the violence of masses and the self-indulgent impulses...
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Church and the Changing Order |
| Author | Shailer Mathews |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1907 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 255 pages |
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