Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...differences between the North and the South before the rise of the cotton States were not racial, but social and industrial. Hitherto the civilization of the South has been studied from the outside alone, and as a result the South has been put in a false light. The intellectual life of these States was limited, but not arrested. Their social life was unfruitful in philanthropy and literature, but it was then more charming than any other mode of life in America...
...main industry of the cotton States was thought to depend on slave labor. The demands of slave labor were two: economic and political. Economically its productions must be free from criticism, and politically it must be protected against social criticism and humanitarian reform. To enforce these demands the representatives of the plantation interest had to do more than stand on the defensive; they had to take the lead of the nation. In this way the whole tendency of American thought and life was for a long time withstood...
...deacons, have either been superceded or undergone many changes. "Presbyter," seems originally to have been a general name for those in authority, as it was among the Jews. The Episcopal principle, that of one man as the head and director, is recognized everywhere and is a necessary part of social life; the Diaconate as an office designed for the care of the poor, is also necessary. But we have a right to extend our idea of these functions, so as to embrace rulers, judges, administrators, the officials charged with the welfare of the poor. They are all doing the work...
...must always impress the truth that to be a Christian is to join in working for God and for men. He should be the president of a body of associated workers, whom he trains and trusts. He should, with his associates, endeavor to instil the Christian spirit into every social organism, such especially as the family and the press, not trying to dominate but to inspire them. He should look upon all who are working for the good of the community as being, like himself, ministers of Christ. He should be the friend of all, and bind together in Christian...
...Lover of men, the source of all beneficence. The position we claim for the Son must not be so much a metaphysical as a moral supremacy. The old creeds, if moral interpretation be given them, even the Athanasian Creed may be used for the support of a moral and social faith. Coming to the Confessions of the Reformation period, we must understand their watchword, "Faith" like St. Paul, as "Faith which worketh by love," and election as a call to service on behalf of mankind. Even the doctrines of the Council of Trent may be purified by this moralization...