Roger Williams, Prophet and Pioneer of Soul-Liberty

Roger Williams, Prophet and Pioneer of Soul-Liberty

Produced by: Alan, Brian Wilson, Mary Glenn Krause, MFR and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Even the absence of a definite experiment must not deter him. He would create a society where the principles would be put to the test. He would fashion a State where the Church and the crown would be mutually helpful though independent. He would create a condition of humanity where the sovereignty of the soul before God would be respected, and where every man, believer or disbeliever, Gentile, Jew, or Turk, would have untrammeled opportunity for the display and exercise of the faith within him. Here lies the core of his heroism! This one monument speaks the gratitude of one State. But the whole country has an eloquent voice of appreciation. Even as the tombstone of Sir Christopher Wren, the builder of St. Pauls Cathedral, intones the larger praise when it says, If you would see his monument, look around you, so would we point to the great principles of equal and religious freedom, written into the Constitution of forty-eight States, and engraven on the minds of ninety millions of people in our country and making their moral and civic influence felt all over the civilized globe, as worthy tributes to the genius of Roger Williams. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 68627
Author: Strickland, Arthur Barsazou
Release Date: Jul 28, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: The Judson Press
Publication Date: 1919
Publisher Country: United States