The Only True American School System (Classic Reprint)
| Preis: | 10.95 EUR* (inkl. MWST zzgl. Versand - Preis kann jetzt höher sein!) |
| Versand: | 0.00 EUR Versandkostenfrei innerhalb von Deutschland |
| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Campbell, Thomas J.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Only True American School System But on the other hand the appalling fact revealed by the statement of the most representative Protestant paper of the country, the Independent, that out of our 75,000,000 people only 23,000,000 belong to any Christian denomination, Catholics included, and secondly the startling and ever increasing emptiness of our churches, coupled with the scandalous revolt of so many ministers of religion against what was considered hitherto as the essential tenet of Protestant Christianity viz.: the authority of the Bible, and the rejection by so many of them of the doctrine of the divinity of Jesus Christ whom they accept merely as a religious teacher, force upon us the dreadful conviction that what Christianity there is in the country is fast disappearing. Does that mean that our existence as a nation is menaced? We might answer that question by another. Have we any right to expect any other result than what has happened elsewhere under similar conditions? Washington in his Farewell Address has warned us that "reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles." And where there is no national mortality, there is national ruin. Gladstone has said the same thing of England. Other great men have expressed themselves in a similar strain; and for the matter of that, though so easily lost sight of, it is almost a self-evident proposition. But are there facts to support this pessimistic theory? They are not wanting. Neglecting such agents of corruption as the literature of the day which exerts a most malign influence even upon our children, and which such a competent judge as Marion Crawford declares to be "the worst, the vilest, the most degrading, and the most criminal literature that has ever disgraced civilization"; omitting the influence which the stage exerts on what is now a theatre-loving people, and which, if half that is said of it be true, seems designed to excite the foulest passions and inculcate the vilest principles of human conduct; passing by all that, we are confronted with the fact that the vast majority of our school children never hear a word of Christianity during the entire school-week, and never enter a house of worship on Sunday. What will the Christianity of these future men and women be? What is it now? And yet the destinies of the United States will be in their hands in the next generation. Conspicuous men among us, who are not Catholics, have already raised the note of alarm. Add to this the ominous condition of American life in the matter of marriage, in which there is not only a falling off, but a wholesale apostacy from the spirit and legislation of Christianity. The condition of things is not only humiliating and shameful, but appalling. Mulhall in his Dictionary of Statistics tells us (and his authority is unimpeachable) that "the actual number of divorces granted, in the twenty years that preceded 1886, was in the United States 328,716, while in the same period throughout the entire Continent of Europe there were approximately 258,000. The population of Europe at that time was 350,000,000, while ours was a trifle over 50,000,000." That is to say Europe had seven times as many people as we, and yet we - distanced it by nearly 70,000 divorces. Is Christianity waning or not? That was fifteen years ago, and we have gone down deeper in the abyss since then. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
* Preis kann jetzt höher sein. Den aktuellen Stand und Informationen zu den Versandkosten finden sie auf der Homepage unseres Partners.
Folgende Produkte könnten dir ebenso gefallen
