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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...in due course of events, a new epoch of Providential development is reached and the world is furnished with the means of multiplying the sacred deposit to any extent, and with an astonishing rapidity. "The power of the press" is an expression volubly repeated; but who has any adequate comprehension of it? A power visibly represented by so much wood, metal and ink, which not only perpetuates knowledge, beyond all the burnings of Alexandrian libraries, but makes it as common and diffusivcas the air and light of heaven. Revelation given in such a form, every man may take part in its distribution. The touch of a profane and unofficial hand upon the ark of testimony was a capital offence. But now every hand may share in the glory of that simple mechanical process by which the Revelation of God is multiplied in copies, numerous as the leaves of autumn. Those too illiterate to transcribe the text, or to pronounce upon its correctness, may do as much for its copying, and its circulation, as the most accurate scribe, and the most erudite of scholars. The mite of a poor widow, the gift of a little child, now ensures a copy of the Book of God, which once would have required years of manual toil, and commanded for its purchase sacrifices even from the affluent. The opportunity of doing good implies the obligation to do good. The winter of the world has passed, and the genial spring has come» when we are invited to scatter abroad the precious seed. Versions multiplied and approved by Christian scholarship, we can give to every man a faithful transcript of the Divine Revelation, in the tongue wherein he was born. It seems like a direct controversy with God, to withhold from any that word which He has designed for every creature. Cruelty refined is it, to b...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...in due course of events, a new epoch of Providential development is reached and the world is furnished with the means of multiplying the sacred deposit to any extent, and with an astonishing rapidity. "The power of the press" is an expression volubly repeated; but who has any adequate comprehension of it? A power visibly represented by so much wood, metal and ink, which not only perpetuates knowledge, beyond all the burnings of Alexandrian libraries, but makes it as common and diffusivcas the air and light of heaven. Revelation given in such a form, every man may take part in its distribution. The touch of a profane and unofficial hand upon the ark of testimony was a capital offence. But now every hand may share in the glory of that simple mechanical process by which the Revelation of God is multiplied in copies, numerous as the leaves of autumn. Those too illiterate to transcribe the text, or to pronounce upon its correctness, may do as much for its copying, and its circulation, as the most accurate scribe, and the most erudite of scholars. The mite of a poor widow, the gift of a little child, now ensures a copy of the Book of God, which once would have required years of manual toil, and commanded for its purchase sacrifices even from the affluent. The opportunity of doing good implies the obligation to do good. The winter of the world has passed, and the genial spring has come» when we are invited to scatter abroad the precious seed. Versions multiplied and approved by Christian scholarship, we can give to every man a faithful transcript of the Divine Revelation, in the tongue wherein he was born. It seems like a direct controversy with God, to withhold from any that word which He has designed for every creature. Cruelty refined is it, to b...
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- VerlagRareBooksClub.com
- Erscheinungsdatum2012
- ISBN 10 1130972356
- ISBN 13 9781130972351
- EinbandTapa blanda
- SpracheEnglisch
- Anzahl der Seiten46
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