A Hand-Book of Congregationalism (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from A Hand-Book of Congregationalism

For two reasons, mainly, I have written this little Hami Booé. One, that, in nearly thirty years of connection with a Congregational newspaper, through contact with hundreds of committees, and the reading of thousands of letters, I have found that a popular and as I judge growing need and demand exist for some cheap and compact manual, adapted both to easy circulation and comprehension; and which may especially Offer to an unaccustomed population some brief yet clear idea of our Congregational ways, with the reason that underlies them. The other, that since publishing fifteen years ago a treatise which, in spite Of its disadvantages Of size and cost, has gained gratifying circulation now through five editions, I have learned much Of which I was ignorant when it was written, and so am naturally anxious to revise its unconscious inaccuracies, by bringing, in another form, my statements into better accord with what I now believe to be the truth. I have taken Special pains to cite every passage in the New Tes tament which refers to polity, and also to place indirectly in my readers' hands the means of resolving as many as possible Of those continually emerging practical Congregational questions, the just solution Of which may not instantly suggest itself to minds not specially accustomed to our fundamental principles and usual methods Of thought.

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Excerpt from A Hand-Book of Congregationalism

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.