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Kiiii* and nra«anl<. prteiU and lawywk I na<-tvh*nt« and Unkard wcra aw«p» by the r,rrW’s I <\ary lirrxi and anbmrrsH ca'.culationi and ar'i All alika »Tra movr*! to \r-tiw !ifo and fortune In the holy cjums. Duniii; the apace of SOJ-year* aereu uphear ale of the iMjpulation f W place known »« tlit Cniiadet. five of them prodifiiotU and two ol them only relatively (cater all of them michty. Before the (reniy kin-

Suday Sermon t'o • Tbe Strextle lor gcltfku Liberty-" tee. A C WUaeo lattJ iMAeocttvcIy •» TUl Period Vt bco tbe leoadotlao* of If** Ctl^ltM Liberty Were UM. New YottK ClT».—in th'e South t-'ontr»-aaiional Church. Broolclj-o. the Kev. J. C. Wileoo, aaaociate paator. delivered a dia^.tf.'SJT'srva w as you. Ucfraiu from yhete men. and let them alone, for if thit eounael or thia work be of men. it will come to naught, but it it be of God. ye cannot overthrow it; leat haply ye be found even to tight agamat God.’ Mr. Wilton said: •- f^t me auggrst at the omaet that the atruggle for leligioua liherty and what it kn -n-n a* the Reformatfbn are not in all • rr- •> .'.-M.ca! movfntcnta. The I'.tlormal. '-i 'vat a great tidal wave which awept over Kuropc in the tixteenth century, out of the vast and troubled aea of the rentutica nhote 'taler* were greatly agitated by the etruggle for religiout liberty. It waa the mlmination of that ttrurgle. It aateri«J the fundamental principle* upon wtiich it had proceeded, and tucyeedcd in laying broad and aecure founds - .una upon wlm-h true religiout liberty could be built, but it left tome of the higher ttandarda and liner idea's unattained. In that respect there ia much yet to be desired In view of the fact that the Reformation split Europe into two great wamng migioua c-ampa, it ia prcc**ary to remind ourselves that up to that tune there had been but one Christian church in Weatern Europe. And the struggle for religiout liberty went on within that church and not outside of it. nor against it. after the first three centuries. >> hatever glory and whatever shame attaches to that church during the first fifteen centuries ia shared equally and sixteenth centuries ia not the Roman Si i “X Ck uSis o ^'-"““ u ‘

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Ji-ASdSl.f.asilS story of unutterable suffering and grim endur.nce for conscience sake—which his"id'ls.^ss “ M asi'ii: ssi , i ?'i.srs!?s. , s5rts k S £ 'st aiTu-iara ia a compact and efficient organiration. Their leaders had improved their long aeduaion to cultivate letters and arts, and soon took leading places among scholar* and men of affairs; so that when Constantine succeeded to the undivided poateesion of supreme

with them.

..’'sar

persecuted Christians, now risen to places

iss s, d

trust. Such was the spirit of sweet reasonableness which animated them that tbe

first Christian Emperor i jarwassafts

J them thatL— “S’CSSS

luted in

e prohibited which invi morality, magic or sorcery. Not fatal passion for power had been aroi them by its possession did the Christiana

k.l°5s

spread in Europe. From Rome as a centre the miasionaries penetrated to all parts of Rir -pv. They carried with them the love of the mother church from which they

cans, into wl institution ki__. most diabolical * ; on that

order of the

Inquisit

»f Into'eranc ingenuity ev

p_—. r trusted day: known as tbe Inquisition, the —t ---[ 0 f intolerance —- 1

* It is the fate of all despotisms to u tteirp^ destruction by a fatal disrej

.. ^ o work

. _ estruction by a fatal disregard

-- —i limits of human endurance, and when the papacy added the horrors of tbe Inquisition to tbe usurpation of tbe most aaL° , iysfjg.viaayg re

clergy, she transcended her limiir ~ i ' voked the long alumbering and

lity of

voiced the long slumbering and accumulated w rath of centuries, which bum forth in the Reformation, disrupted her solid empire, and caused her the lots of tgro-

thirds of her spiritual children.

Two great Aorement* in tbeMiddle Ages itributed to batten the triumph of rc-

- —r» tb*

eontnbuted to he „ hgious liberty in Europe. They were Crusades and the Henaistar— ' -

i crusade against the "infii the pv.poee of rescuing tbe from their bands. Tt we ia suddenly opened into

i Holy Sepulcher ns when a doo-

rhere

■ in its own smoke, tbe who> imilding i wrapped in a sudden conMsgration; O' a when a volcano long extinct bursts int midden activity. A spontaneous upriilni

i by

TZS SSiS* 1

mighty- 1

l*eter the Hermit died out im-

idered. multitude*

THE SABBATH SCH08L loiernitloaaS Let Mu Cotnis. - n(s Fcr '

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■ the relics of all the .amts. In the fiiwt | Greece, and returning, he stoppea at Milt

n;ac«>'theT C *htd Vrck'in the power cf the Saracens by succeasive inpacts UJion .hem,

by »>rolong«l conflict with ihcin.

Tbev had fought tire with fire. Religions fanslk-iuii was matched against rclig-ons fansticiim. and it inflicted such tmniahment upon the rapacious and cruel Mn.aulman that he has never been able to rally

a srstswwi

the^str.i^lc. and haa coutinccd ii

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all the flock

; for the el--

an affectionate farewell, to take heed-unto thci

He urge-'

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IV. Topic: PsVil'i coming afflictions. Paul reaches Tvre; meets with a cordial reception; continue* hi* joureey to Caesarea: enter* the houae of Philip, the. evangelist. one of the seven; tarried there many days; the prophet Apahut arrive*, takes Paul’s girdle and binds hi* band* and feet; says that thua Paul will be bound at Jerusalem and will be delivered to the Gentiles. When the disciples heard tbe prophecy of Agsbua they besaught Paul not to go to Jerusalem, but he told them that he was not only ready to be bound at Jerusalem, but a»o to give bis life for tne V. Topic: Paul mobbed and rescued. As soon as Paul reached Jerusalem he conferred with the elder* of the church. He then entered into the temple

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XII. Topic: The duties of the Christian minister. Paul wrote his letter to Timothy ■from Home. These were among his last

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