 | Geraldine Edith Mitton - 1905 - 394 страници
...only word that fitly describes the spiritual condition of the majority of the clergy. Seeker says, " An open and professed disregard of religion is become,...unhappy causes, the distinguishing character of the present age "; and the clergy, as the salt of the earth, had certainly lost their savour, and did little... | |
 | Geraldine Edith Mitton - 1905 - 392 страници
...only word that fitly describes the spiritual condition of the majority of the clergy. Secker says, " An open and professed disregard of religion is become,...unhappy causes, the distinguishing character of the present age " ; and the clergy, as the salt of the earth, had certainly lost their savour, and did... | |
 | William Richard Wood Stephens, William Hunt - 1906 - 404 страници
...the Oxford Diocese : — " Yet this we cannot be mistaken in, that an open and professed disregard to religion is become, through a variety of unhappy causes, the distinguishing character of the present vin SECKER'S NARROWNESS 121 age; that this evil is grown to a great height in the metropolis... | |
 | John Henry Overton, Frederic Relton - 1906 - 448 страници
...Oxford Diocese :• — " Yet this we cannot be mistaken in, that an open and professed disregard to religion is become, through a variety of unhappy causes, the distinguishing character of the present VIII SECKER'S NARROWNESS 121 age; that this evil is grown to a great height in the metropolis... | |
 | George Trobridge - 1912 - 396 страници
...officers mere gamblers and bullies."1 Archbishop Seeker, writing in 1738, thus sums up the case : " An open and professed disregard of religion is become, through a variety of causes, the distinguishing character of the present age. Indeed, it hath becoming a beggar, and unable... | |
 | Robert Leonard Tucker - 1918 - 194 страници
...p. 340. "Principles and Practices of Methodists, p. 24ff. " Whitehead : vol. ii, pp. 120-121. gion is become, through a variety of unhappy causes, the distinguishing character of the present age." He figured crime and bad living to be on the increase. The clergy were not influential;... | |
 | David Spadafora, James Spada - 1990 - 488 страници
...(1693-1768) in 1738. The future archbishop of Canterbury added that "an open and professed Disregard to Religion is become, through a Variety of unhappy Causes, the distinguishing Character of the present Age. " Such negativism about the contemporary state of religion was quite common throughout... | |
 | Fireside pictorial annual - 1880 - 810 страници
...speaks to the same effect :— "In this we cannot be mistaken, that ш open and professed disregard to religion is become, through a variety of unhappy causes, the distinguishing character of the presen: age ; that this evil is grown to a great height in the metropolis of the nation ; is daily... | |
 | 104 страници
...Archbishop of Canterbury : Yet this we cannot be mistaken in, that an open and professed disregard to religion is become, through a variety of unhappy causes, the distinguishing character of the present age ; that this evil is grown to a great height in the metropolis of the nation, is daily spreading... | |
 | Fireside pictorial annual - 1880 - 810 страници
...biographies, and anecdotes of the age. "In this we cannot bo mistaken, that an open and professed disregard to religion is become, through a variety of unhappy causes, the distinguishing character of the present age; that this evil is grown to a great height in the metropolis of the nation ; is daily spreading... | |
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... in this we cannot be mistaken, that an open and professed disregard > to religion is become, through a variety of unhappy causes, the distinguishing character of the present age... 
