Speeches of Dr. John Rolph, and Christop'r A. Hagerman, Esq., His Majesty's Solicitor General, on the Bill for Appropriating the Proceeds of the ... of General Education (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Speeches of Dr. John Rolph, and Christop'r A. Hagerman, Esq., His Majesty's Solicitor General, on the Bill for Appropriating the Proceeds of the Clergy Reserves to the Purposes of General Education

If our religion has in'past times triumphant ly prevailed against the powers of this world and of darkness too, how incalculably we may ficilitate her conquests by merely levelling, as it were, the theatre of her Operations, and gir ing freer scope to her Spiritual warfare - Altho' many great men have brought all the force of their minds to bear against Christianity, and have thrown over it the clouds of infidelity, yet those clouds have served to give greater refrac tion to the truth shining through them, 62. There. By enhanced and enlightened what they were intended to darken and enshrowd - just as the moon rising in an evening fog seems really the nearer and the greater for the very mist about her - Thus Gibbon is converted into a oommen tator upon the fulfilment of prophesy. If such has been the course of Christianity under mul tiplied disadvantages, the abate nent of those disadvantages will contribute to mature its me ridico. And usher in the approaching millenni um.

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