The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.
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There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power.Josiah Strong
For the same reason the saloon, together with the intemperance and the liquor power which it represents, is multiplied in the city.
Josiah Strong
Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty.
Josiah Strong
It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty.
Josiah Strong
It seems to me that God, with infinite wisdom and skill, is training the Anglo-Saxons for an hour sure to come in the world's future... the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled... .Whether the extinction of inferior races... seems to the reader sad or otherwise, it certainly appears probable.
Josiah Strong
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