The New Puritanism (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The New Puritanism

Jesus had no time for rhetoric. His brief sayings are compact of germinant life. One of them - perhaps as characteristic of his whole career as any - is that The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sab bath. The principle involved in this maxim is that which has developed into the splendid humanitarianism of Christian life and work to-day: although its full meaning is yet to appear.

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Excerpt from The New Puritanism

The expansion both of knowledge and of wisdom in all departments of life during the Nineteenth Century has nowhere been more manifest than in religious matters. The general mental attitude in nearly all communions has changed, towards God and towards man. The result is an immense increase of vital interest, with a corresponding decline in mere formalism.

This is particularly noticeable in two directions.

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