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Even the street-sweeper is frequently more profoundly versed in subtle metaphysics and divine wisdom than the missionary sent to convert him.
Christian Missions: A Triangular Debate, Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York (1895)
We all understand that the debasement of a nation's coinage is very pernicious and must prove disastrous to its commerce. How much more dangerous is the debasement of the spiritual coinage!
Christian Missions: A Triangular Debate, Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York (1895)
The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions.
Christian Missions: A Triangular Debate, Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York (1895)