Addresses of Rev. Drs. Park, Post, & Bacon: At the Anniversary of the ...
Addresses of Rev. Drs. Park, Post, & Bacon: At the Anniversary of the ...
Edwards Amasa Park
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Nor is it the mission of Congregationalism at the West to enter upon a scheme of denominational propagandism in fields already occupied, i, e. already covered and worked by other evangelical sects. Such fields have already the vital Digitized by Google 90 and saving truth, and whatever excellences may attach to our ecclesiastical system, its propagation in such districts by i^gressive measures, and by movements from without, would probably be at such an expense of Christian charity as would har...dly be compensated by the gain to Christian liberty. Moreover, if suddenly introduced by external influence and obtruded on those unwonted to it, it would be likely to be misapprehended and disastrously worked. If it is ever beneficently to enter such communities, it must be by de- velopment and demand from within, wrought by the gradual and silent influence of great and diffusive principles that must ever go with our civilization and our Christianity in all its forms. Moreover the genius of our system recognises the prerogative of original action as residing in the brotherhood itself; and experience at the West abundantly testifies the manifold mischiefe of clerical intermeddling with the spon- taneous action and natural rights of a people in adopting their own form of ecclesiastic self-government.
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