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...grace was in every man, there for the seeking. He felt himself called by God, with power to preach and to heal, "to bring people off from all the world's religions, which are vain, that they might know the pure religion, and might visit the fatherless, the widows and the strangers, and keep themselves from the spots of the world."-He and his followers saw themselves as latter-day Prophets, trying to bring their people back to the live faith and concrete charitable sacrifice of primitive Christianity. He scorned churches, which he called "steeplehouses," and he wanted...
...James 1:27: "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted,from the world." - As a result of his American trip, he engaged in a lively controversy with Rhode Island's Roger Williams, an independent Baptist. In answer to Williams' pamphlet, George Fox Digg'd out of His Burrows, Fox wrote one of his own, A New England Fire-Brand Quenched...
...eunuch baptized by Philip: "I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God." If they can say this, I argue, then this country is on the verge of the greatest spiritual awakening in history. If they cannot, we are plunged once more into a sterile pantheism, Fatherless and cold...
...Well, then," said the countryman, "if he be dead, he hath left many fatherless children in Boston...
...Classics. In the last 100 years, the 15,000 fatherless boys who have gone through the "Hum" (campus corruption for home) have turned out to be everything from mechanics to insurance-company presidents. Girard has a "double curriculum." Every "newbie" (new boy) must try ten different trades, and then pick his favorite. Girard also teaches the standard grammar and high-school subjects, except for Latin and Greek, which Stephen Girard considered a waste of time...