The Church and Modern Life

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Washington Gladden. The Church and Modern Life

The Church and Modern Life

Table of Contents

I

The Roots of Religion

II

Our Religion and Other Religions

III

The Social Side of Religion

IV

The Business of the Church

V

Is the Church Decadent?

VI

The Coming Reformation

VII

Social Redemption

VIII

The New Evangelism

IX

The New Leadership

Footnotes

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Washington Gladden

Published by Good Press, 2019

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We give you his life.'"

The Gods seemed to say that the victim must be either the king's wife or the king's child; which it should be, was the terrible question that the king had to answer. The choice seemed to have fallen on the child, but the wife would not have it that he was the king's dearest, and she rushed to her own immolation. The poem reflects the common notion of those dark days, that the angry Gods could only be propitiated by the slaughter of those whom men loved the best. From this horrible idea the Jewish people were delivered by the insight of their great ancestor.

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