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From: Efren D. <suc...@pu...> - 2010-04-28 20:04:35
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Act that bloody Rome baptized herself in Christian blood in spite of all her tolerance of religion. The apostle met with sufferings on all sides; and having perfect liberty of recantation at any moment, how did it come to pass, if he was insincere, that he did not recant? Was he rational? Let his writing answer! They are admired by the best minds of earth. If he was irrational, let us have many more insane writers! Was he honest? If not, who is honest? Could he be deceived about the facts which he saw and heard? No! If he was, who can't be? He could not be mistaken, for he _saw_, and _heard_, and _felt_--even to _blindness_, and, also, to the receiving of his sight. He was sincere. He suffered long as a bold defender of the Christian religion, and died a martyr's death at last. Let us work on, suffer on, hope on, "hope in death," and live forever! So mote it be. "BROAD-GAUGE RELIGION."--SHALL THE CONFLICT CEASE? First. "A portion of the Church of England, comprising those who claim to hold a position, in respect to doctrine and fellowship, intermediate between the old High Church party and the modern Low Church, or evangelical party, a term of recent origin," having originated in the last half century, "which has been loosely applied to other bodies of men holding liberal or comprehensive views of Christian doctrine and fellowship."--_Webster._ Side by side with these various shades of High and Low Church, another party of a different character has always existed in the Church of England. It is called by different names: Moderate, Catholic, or _Broad Church_, by its friends: Latitudinarian or Indifferent, by its enemies. Its distinctive character is the desire of comprehension. Its watchwords are _charity_ and _toleration_.--_Conybeare._ _Broadgauge._ This word is connected, in its origin, with railroads. Its radical idea is that of |