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William A. Smith, DD. President of Randolph-Macon College , and Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy., Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery as exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery in the United States: withe Duties of Masters to Slaves. 15 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 15 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers 12 0 Browse Search
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 12 0 Browse Search
Eliza Frances Andrews, The war-time journal of a Georgia girl, 1864-1865 12 0 Browse Search
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist 12 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 10 0 Browse Search
History of the First Universalist Church in Somerville, Mass. Illustrated; a souvenir of the fiftieth anniversary celebrated February 15-21, 1904 10 2 Browse Search
William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik 10 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Sweden, founding of (search)
an powers have, from time to time, sought to promote their several interests there. Our Swedes and Goths were the less backward in such expeditions, as they had always been the first therein. They had already, in the year 996 after the birth of Christ, visited America, had named it Vinland the Good, and also Skraellinga Land, and had called its inhabitants the Skraellings of Vinland. It is therefore evident that the Northmen had visited some part of North America before the Spaniards and Portalty of one thousandth upon all articles bought or sold by the company. The powerful King, whose zeal for the honor of God was not less ardent than for the welfare of his subjects, availed himself of this opportunity to extend the doctrines of Christ among the heathen, as well as to establish his own power in other parts of the world. To this end, he sent forth letters patent, dated at Stockholm on the 2d of July, 1626, wherein all, both high and low, were invited to contribute something to
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Noyes, John Humphrey 1811-1886 (search)
Noyes, John Humphrey 1811-1886 Clergyman; born in Brattleboro, Vt., Sept. 6, 1811; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1830; licensed to preach in 1833, and in the following year declared he had experienced a second conversion. Hefounded a new sect called Perfectionists in Putnam county, Vt. After twelve years he imbibed some of the teachings of Fourier and persuaded his disciples to live in communities. In 1848 he went with his followers to Oneida, N. Y., where he established the Oneida Community. He taught that God had a dual body— male and female. The only successful communities, those founded at Oneida, N. Y., and Wallingford, Conn., adopted what was named complex marriage, and lived in a unity house. Subsequently they were compelled to abandon complex marriage and their number soon diminished. Noyes published The second coming of Christ; History of American socialism, etc. He died in Niagara Falls, Canada, April 13, 188
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Parker, Theodore 1810- (search)
ip of the churches of this land; 80,000 owned by Presbyterians, 225,000 by Baptists, 250,000 owned by Methodists—600,000 slaves in this land owned by men who profess Christianity, and in churches sit down to take the Lord's Supper, in the name of Christ and God! There are ministers who own their fellow-men— bought with a price. Does this not look as if slavery were to triumph over freedom? VI. Slavery corrupts the judicial class. In America, especially in New England, no class of men haas levying war. You remember the trial of the rescuers! Judge Sprague's charge to the grand jury that, if they thought the question was which they ought to obey, the law of man or the law of God, then they must obey both! serve God and mammon, Christ and the devil, in the same act! You remember the trial, the ruling of the bench, the swearing on the stand, the witness coming back to alter and enlarge his testimony and have another gird at the prisoner! You have not forgotten the trials befo
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pastorius, Francis Daniel -1681 (search)
t down ourselves by degrees and with almost incredible labor and exertion, during which we can have a very forcible illustration of the sentence pronounced upon our poor old father Adam, that in the sweat of his brow he should eat his bread. To our successors, and others coming after us, we would say that they must not only bring over money, but a firm determination to labor and make themselves useful to our infant colony. Upon the whole, we may consider that man blessed whom the devil does not find idling. In the mean time we are employing the wild inhabitants as day-laborers, for which they are, however, not much inclined; and we ourselves are gradually learning their language, so to instruct them in the religion of Christ, inviting them to attend our church services, and therefore have the pleasing hope that the spirit of God may be the means of enlightening many of these poor heathens unto their souls' salvation. To Him be honor, praise, thanks, and glory, forevermore. Amen.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pauperism in the United States. (search)
all is that of fallen women, but the Salvation Army's Slum sisterhood, consisting of young women of character who go among the most degraded, have secured success even among these. The secret is to go among these people of the submerged tenth as Christ went among men, sharing their sorrows and helping them with the personal contact of superior natures. Selfsacrifice, enjoined by true Christianity, is the neglected social force which solves social problems. Germany has a large number of lads, but the well-known Methodist minister, the Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, of London, says: I have had almost as much experience of evangelistic work as any man in this country, and I have never been able to bring any one who was actually starving to Christ. Let us hear the chief of the Salvation Army, who certainly does not underrate religious exhortation. General Booth says: I have had some experience on this subject, and have been making observations with respect to it ever since the day
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Protestant churches. (search)
asserted as the foundation of the Christian Church. The foundation of the Church is loyalty to Christ and His Kingdom; all rights are to be held and interpreted under that obligation. The failure tgmas of the Church, as Sabatier has shown, spring from the life of the Church. If the spirit of Christ is abiding in the hearts of his disciples, their views of truth will be constantly purified and ss is at the heart of nature. We begin to discern some deep meaning in the mystical saying that Christ represents the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, and we are able to see that He came ght. We need not so much new machinery, as new ideals of personal obligation. This idea that Christ has come to save the world; that His mission is not to gather His elect out of the world and thef peace and good — will among men. Charity and philanthropy have not been unknown; the spirit of Christ has found in them a beautiful expression; within that realm the Kingdom of Heaven has been set u
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Puritans, (search)
rty of conscience is impious ignorance, said Parson Ward, of Ipswich, a leading divine. Religion admits of no eccentric notions, said Parson Norton, another leading divine and persecutor of so-called Quakers in Boston. The early settlers in New England regarded the Indians around them as something less than human. Cotton Mather took a short method of solving the question of their origin. He guessed that the devil decoyed the miserable savages hither in hope that the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ would never come here to destroy or disturb his absolute control ever them. And after wars with the Indians had embittered both parties, the expressions of pious men concerning them are shocking to the enlightened mind of to-day. After the massacre of the Pequods, Mather wrote: It was supposed that no less than five or six hundred Pequod souls were brought down to hell that day. The learned and pious Dr. Increase Mather, in speaking of the efficiency of prayer in bringing about the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Quakers. (search)
Quakers. The sect of Friends, who were called Quakers in derision, was founded at about the middle of the seventeenth century. At first they were called Professors (or children) of the light, because of their fundamental principle that the light of Christ within was God's gift of salvation—that Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. It is said that George Fox (q. v.), the founder of the sect, when brought before magistrates at Derby, England, in 1650, told them to quake before the Lord, when one of them (Gervase Bennet) caught up the word quake, and was the first who called the sect Quakers. They were generally known by that name afterwards. They spread rapidly in England, and were severely persecuted by the Church and State. At one time there were 4,000 of them in loathsome prisons in England. The most prominent of Fox's disciples was William Penn, who did much to alleviate their sufferings. Many died in prison or from the effects of imprisonment.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Reformed Episcopal Church. (search)
n one order or form of ecclesiastical polity; 2. That Christian ministers are priests in another sense than that in which all believers are a royal priesthood ; 3. That the Lord's table is an altar on which the oblation of the body and blood of Christ is offered anew to the Father; 4. That the presence of Christ in the Lord's Supper is a presence in the elements of bread and wine; and, 5. That regeneration is inseparably connected with baptism. Rejecting these views, they formed a new ChurcChrist in the Lord's Supper is a presence in the elements of bread and wine; and, 5. That regeneration is inseparably connected with baptism. Rejecting these views, they formed a new Church organization, called the Reformed Episcopal Church, and held a first general council in New York, Dec. 2, 1873, at which Bishop Cummins presided. He addressed the council, setting forth the causes which impelled to the movement, reviewing the history of the Church from 1785, and said: We are not schismatic (no man can be schismatic who does not deny the faith); we are not disorganizers; we are restorers of the old, repairers of the breaches, reformers. The council elected standing committees
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Religion. (search)
9 1,48685,109    General 450 55028,000    Separate 113 103 6,479 Brethren in Christ (River) 152 78 4,000 Catholics:    Roman Catholics 11,63612,0628,610,226 Inde New Jerusalem 1431737,679 Congregationalists 5,6145,604629,874 Disciples of Christ 6,52810,5281,149,982 Dunkards:    German Baptists (Conservative) 2,612 85095,395    Bundes Conference 4116 3,050    Defenceless 2011 1,176    Brethren in Christ 4582 2,953 Methodists:    Methodist Episcopal 17,52126,0212,716,437    Union8,096 Salvation Army 2,689 753 40,000 United Brethren:    United Brethren in Christ 1,897 4,229 243,841    United Brethren (Old Constitution) 670 817 226,643 Unit Christians 883 580 25,816    Church of God 19 29 647    Church of God in Jesus Christ 94 95 2,872 Baptists:    Six Principle 14 18 937    Original Freewill 118ef 9 5 352    Old Amish 71 22 2,038    Apostolic 2 2 209    Church of God in Christ 18 18 471    Old (Wisler) 17
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