A Presbyterian clergyman looking for the church

Flavel S. (Flavel Scott) Mines, John Burton

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LIBRARY ofUniversity California. P.Mrs. SARAH WALSWORTH. Received October, i8g4. l^f^,No,yd'Sd'^ Class No.Accessions ^=^ ^mW^ / 3CHAPTER III. )*> APOLOGY. member of the theo-In my seventeenth year, I became a and justlylogical seminary at Princeton a village widely; Therenowned for its academical and theological learning. gratedEpiscopal liturgy had probably, up to that time, never on the atmosphere, that lay in homogeneous repose, within a circumference thirty miles. A priest, all dressed in white,of never appearedas one uprisen from the grave of Popery, had villagers their propriety. Theto frighten the quiet out of sepulchresfaces around us—the traditions around us—the very — piousandaround us—the strangers who came among us ^the venerated men, whose shoes we felt unworthy to bear, and eye was passing, aswe felt, our everyunder whose observant "Presbyterian afterthemost straitest sect."thought—all were that I should enter-And what was I, at sixteen years of age, tain a doubt, that the men, whom there it was our privilege to know and to revere, had sifted their facts, and considered well their premises, and reached by the most cautious reasoning their conclusions ? To me it would have seemed little less than parricide to have resisted the direction they were giving to my mind. Being myself, would have pursuedof an inquisitive turn I doubt on fact, to any extremity. Buta any important alleged being also in my mental bias, both happily and unhappily, APOLOGY.

Sujets

• Presbyterianism
• Controversial literature

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 3
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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LIBRARY
ofUniversity California.
P.Mrs. SARAH WALSWORTH.
Received October, i8g4.
l^f^,No,yd'Sd'^ Class No.Accessions ^=^ ^mW^/3<il*-^ ^^/ V^^--^^ 'J5=;i<i^"Y ^a^/** -^^VV&^
CLER&YMANPEESBYTEEIAI
LOOKING FOR THE CHURCHJ
BY ONE OF THREE HUNDRED.
NEW-YORK:
GENERAL PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL
SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION.
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of California,University
Mrs. SARAH P. WALSWORTH.
RiCfived October, 1894.
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