A Plea for the WestA plea for Protestant education in the Middle West. |
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Page 7 - Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day ? or shall a nation be born at once ? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
Page 31 - But what will become of the West if her prosperity rushes up to such a majesty of power, while those great institutions linger which are necessary to form the mind and the conscience and the heart of that vast world. It must not be permitted. . . . Let no man at the East quiet himself and dream of liberty, whatever may become of the West. . . . Her destiny is our destiny.
Page 30 - If in our haste to be rich and mighty, we outrun our literary and religious institutions, they will never overtake us; or only come up after the battle of liberty is fought and lost, as spoils to grace the victory, and as resources of inexorable despotism for the perpetuity of our bondage.
Page 45 - It took Rome three hundred years to die ; and our death, if we perish, will be as much more terrific as our intelligence and free institutions have given to us more bone, and sinew, and vitality.
Page 93 - Hill, did men turn pale, and whisper, and look over their shoulders and around to ascertain whether it were safe to speak aloud, or meet to worship God ? Has it come to this, that the capital of New England has been thrown into consternation by the threats of a Catholic mob, and that her temples and mansions stand only through the forbearance of a Catholic bishop...
Page 15 - is assembled from all the States of the Union and from all the nations of Europe, and is rushing in like the waters of the flood, demanding for its moral preservation the immediate and universal action of those institutions which discipline the mind and arm the conscience and the heart. And so various are the opinions and habits, and so recent and imperfect is the acquaintance, and so sparse are the settlements of the West, that no homogeneous public sentiment can be formed to legislate immediately...
Page 158 - From hence arise these revolutions in the minds of men ; hence, this aggravated corruption of youth ; hence, this contempt among the people of sacred things, and of the most holy institutions and laws ; hence, in one word, that pest of all others most to be dreaded in a state, unbridled liberty of opinion.
Page 11 - It is equally plain that the religious and political destiny of our nation is to be decided in the West...
Page 145 - ... for which most pestilential error, the course is opened by that entire and wild liberty of opinion which is every where attempting the overthrow of civil and religious institutions ; and which the unblushing impudence of some, has held forth as an advantage of religion...
Page 45 - The descent of desolation will correspond with the past elevation. No punishments of Heaven are so severe as those for mercies abused; and no instrumentality employed in their infliction is so dreadful as the wrath of man.