Practical Christian Sociology: A Series of Special Lectures Before Princeton Theological Seminary and Marietta College, with Supplementary Notes and Appendixes |
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... tion of nearly forty thousand . In this book he began a study of modern business methods which has since been more fully developed in his lectures on sociology . On becoming pastor of a Presbyterian Church in New York City in 1883 , our ...
... tion of nearly forty thousand . In this book he began a study of modern business methods which has since been more fully developed in his lectures on sociology . On becoming pastor of a Presbyterian Church in New York City in 1883 , our ...
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... tion . Election of senators by the people . State and city legislatures . Tariff . Currency . Income tax . Internal revenue laws . License laws . Proportional representation . The referendum . Constitutional amend- ment needed . The ...
... tion . Election of senators by the people . State and city legislatures . Tariff . Currency . Income tax . Internal revenue laws . License laws . Proportional representation . The referendum . Constitutional amend- ment needed . The ...
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... tion proclaims a city on earth in whose streets Christ shall be wholly King . While Christ's immediate aim was individual conver- sion , his ultimate aim was the conversion of society from a selfish " body politic " to a Christian ...
... tion proclaims a city on earth in whose streets Christ shall be wholly King . While Christ's immediate aim was individual conver- sion , his ultimate aim was the conversion of society from a selfish " body politic " to a Christian ...
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... tion . in nations habituated to the idea of state churches . For a while it seemed as if Roman Catholics would domi- nate the New World . A map of the American continent in the first half of the eighteenth century , if the Roman ...
... tion . in nations habituated to the idea of state churches . For a while it seemed as if Roman Catholics would domi- nate the New World . A map of the American continent in the first half of the eighteenth century , if the Roman ...
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... tion and so make the poor less submissive to their hard lot , with its hard bread and hard beds . Employers resisted all efforts to compel sanitation and the use of safety appliances in mills , and shorter hours for women . and children ...
... tion and so make the poor less submissive to their hard lot , with its hard bread and hard beds . Employers resisted all efforts to compel sanitation and the use of safety appliances in mills , and shorter hours for women . and children ...
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Page 312 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence, and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created.
Page 297 - Labour, wide as the Earth, has its summit in Heaven. Sweat of the brow ; and up from that to sweat of the brain, sweat of the heart ; which includes all Kepler calculations, Newton meditations, all Sciences, all spoken Epics, all acted Heroisms, Martyrdoms, — up to that 'Agony of bloody sweat,' which all men have called divine!
Page 49 - Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.
Page 225 - No legislature can bargain away the public health or the public morals. The people themselves cannot do it, much less their servants. The supervision of both these subjects of governmental power is continuing in its nature, and they are to be dealt with as the special exigencies of the moment may require. Government is organized with a view to their preservation, and cannot divest itself of the power to provide for them.
Page 24 - No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
Page 319 - The social problem of the future we considered to be, how to unite the greatest individual liberty of action, with a common ownership in the raw material of the globe, and an equal participation of all in the benefits of combined labour.
Page 245 - It was reserved for Christianity to present to the world an ideal character, which through all the changes of eighteen centuries has inspired the hearts of men with an impassioned love, has shown itself capable of acting on all ages, nations, temperaments, and conditions, has been not only the highest pattern of virtue but the strongest incentive to its practice, and has exercised so deep an influence that it may be truly said that the simple record of three short years of active life has done more...
Page 297 - What is chiefly needed in England at the present day is to show the quantity of pleasure that may be obtained by a consistent, well-administered competence, modest, confessed, and laborious. We need examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that they will be happy in it, and have resolved to seek — not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity ; making the first of possessions, self-possession;...
Page 257 - ... shall be deposited in or carried by the mails of the United States or be delivered by any postmaster or letter carrier.
Page 55 - Thrice blest is he to whom is given The instinct that can tell That God is on the field when He Is most invisible.