Bacon Leonard Woolsey
Leonard Woolsey Bacon (1830–1907) was an American clergyman, born in New Haven, Conn.; a son of Leonard Bacon. He graduated at Yale in 1850, and was pastor of the First Church in Litchfield, Conn., of the New England Congregational Church in Brooklyn, N. Y., and of the First Church in Stamford, Conn. Subsequently he passed several years in Europe, chiefly in Geneva, as student, preacher, and writer; was pastor of the Park Congregational Church in Norwich, Conn.(1878-82), and later of other Congregational and Presbyterian churches. He edited Luther's Deutsche geistliche Lieder (New York, 1883), and wrote:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART II, PRACTICAL. CHAPTER VI. TYPES OF CONSTITUTION. In preparing for the organization of a young people's society in any community, one of the first points to be considered will be the question, which one, if any, of the prevailing types of Constitution shall be followed? and with which, if any, of the confederacies of such associations shall the new society be allied? These questions will be decided in part by the purpose in view in the minds of those who are planning the new society. It is most desirable that these should know their own minds on this point with entire distinctness. If the primary and governing purpose is to combine the young people for unselfish service to others "In His Name," this is the distinctive character of the "Ten-Times-One Clubs," "Lend-a-Hand Clubs," and whatever other associations are combined in a loose confederation or correspondence through the Ten Times One Corporation. If any are scrupulous to avoid association in works of charity with those of whose theological views they disapprove, they may find it necessary to avoid affiliation with these clubs, which are quitecareless on this point, and have been known to unite in doing good works in the Name of Christ with people of all kinds of faith, or sometimes of very little faith of any kind. Such scrupulous persons will like better such a society as "The King's Daughters and Sons," which, although inspired by the principles and literature of the "Ten Times One," invites co-operation only on an Evangelical basis, and aims to associate with charitable effort for others, methods of spiritual self-culture and of worship. If now the primary purpose of the Society is the good of its own members, if it is desired to identify it with the church-congregation to which they belong, and es...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III PILGRIM AND PURITAN When the Massachusetts Bay Company planted its well provided colony at Salem, it was not in ignorance of the fact that fifty miles to the south the feeble community of the Plymouth Separatists was struggling into life. But the company's choice of a location was made with no purpose of fellowship with its neighbors. On the contrary, the Pilgrim settlement had, from its beginning, been the object of distinctly unfriendly feeling and deed on the part of the religious party that was dominant in the company. Some of the sorest of the troubles that beset that forlorn hope of a colony in their preparations for the voyage, and pursued them into their refuge in the wilderness, proceeded from that Puritan party to which they were bound by identity of religious opinion and by feelings of reverence towards its great preachers and theologians. The Puritans abhorred the schism by which the Separatists had torn themselves loose from the general fellowship of English Christians, and had been shocked at the acrimonious denunciations flung back upon the National Church by some who had left it. The record of the seceders had not been altogether such as to command respect. Among them had been martyrs and confessors of whom the world was not worthy. But their earliest leader, Robert Browne, a man of prophetic mind, in whose writings are enunciated those principles of polity both in church and state which after three centuries have come to general acceptance in America, had not in him the stuff for a martyr, and after a stormy day his sun set under a cloud. Of the churches of The Separation, existing in exile under the protection of the Dutch Republic, some had brought scandal on their cause, by meddlesome attempts at discipline, by disputes over questions which to...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART II, PRACTICAL. CHAPTER VI. TYPES OF CONSTITUTION. In preparing for the organization of a young people's society in any community, one of the first points to be considered will be the question, which one, if any, of the prevailing types of Constitution shall be followed? and with which, if any, of the confederacies of such associations shall the new society be allied? These questions will be decided in part by the purpose in view in the minds of those who are planning the new society. It is most desirable that these should know their own minds on this point with entire distinctness. If the primary and governing purpose is to combine the young people for unselfish service to others "In His Name," this is the distinctive character of the "Ten-Times-One Clubs," "Lend-a-Hand Clubs," and whatever other associations are combined in a loose confederation or correspondence through the Ten Times One Corporation. If any are scrupulous to avoid association in works of charity with those of whose theological views they disapprove, they may find it necessary to avoid affiliation with these clubs, which are quitecareless on this point, and have been known to unite in doing good works in the Name of Christ with people of all kinds of faith, or sometimes of very little faith of any kind. Such scrupulous persons will like better such a society as "The King's Daughters and Sons," which, although inspired by the principles and literature of the "Ten Times One," invites co-operation only on an Evangelical basis, and aims to associate with charitable effort for others, methods of spiritual self-culture and of worship. If now the primary purpose of the Society is the good of its own members, if it is desired to identify it with the church-congregation to which they belong, and es...
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a life worth living memorials of emily bliss gould of rome
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A History of American Christianity
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. ANTECEDENTS OF PERMANENT CHRISTIAN COLONIZATIONTHE DISINTEGRATION OF CHRISTENDOM CONTROVERSIESPERSECUTIONS. We have briefly reviewed the history of two magnificent schemes of secular and spiritual empire, which, conceived in the minds of great statesmen and churchmen, sustained by the resources of the mightiest kingdoms of that age, inaugurated by soldiers of admirable prowess, explorers of unsurpassed boldness and persistence, and missionaries whose heroic faith has canonized them in the veneration of Christendom, have nevertheless come to naught. We turn now to observe the beginnings, coinciding in time with those of the French enterprise, of a series of disconnected plantations along the Atlantic seaboard, established as if at haphazard, without plan or mutual preconcert, of different languages and widely diverse Christian creeds, depending on scanty private resources, unsustained by governmental arms or treasuries, but destined, in a course of events which no human foresight could have calculated, to come under the plastic influence of a single European power, to be molded according to the general type of English polity, and to become heir to English traditions, literature, and language. These mutually alien and even antagonistic communities were to beDISINTEGRATION OF CHRISTENDOM. 31 constrained, by forces superior to human control, first into confederation and then into union, and to occupy the breadth of the new continent as a solid and independent nation. The history reads like a fulfillment of the apocalyptic imagery of a rock hewn from the mountain without hands, moving on to fill the earth. Looking back after the event, we find it easy to trace the providential preparations for this great result. There were few important events in the cou...
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