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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, Christianity a battle, not a dream (1869). (search)
element, who took a hall and was decently surrounded. He was the sedition of the streets. He said to wealth, You are robbery, and Christendom stood aghast. He said to Judah, You are a tyranny. He arraigned unjust power at its own feet. If a man does so now we send him to the coventry of public contempt or the house of correction. But that is where Christianity goes. That is the way it entered the world, and that is the way it grapples with the world to-day. As the old Italian said in 1554, There has not a Christian died in his bed, for two hundred years. There will never a Christian die in his bed in the sense in which he meant it. The distinctive representative, the typical, advanced Christian of his age will never die in a respectable bed, because the society of to-day, though growing out of a Christian subsoil, struggles yet to defy its Master. I have endeavored to show the wise men at the State House that they are gravitating toward the despotism of incorporated wealth