On Religious Endowments (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Newman, Francis William

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ISBN 10: 1330695089 ISBN 13: 9781330695081

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from On Religious Endowments

I have been requested to address you on the subject of Religious Endowments. The very request denotes that there is much variety of opinion abroad concerning the expediency or lawfulness of such establishments. In many controversies among good and wise men, to state a question rightly, it has been said, is to answer it. In such case, the parties are not really at variance, but they mean different things while they use the same words. Here then, in order to clear matters up, it is well to go back to the beginning, and consider how Religious Endowments first arise, and what is their original character.

As man is material as well as spiritual, he cannot do anything but at a material expense. Seldom can one deliver an address, without some one incurring expense, such as hiring a room, or travelling. However different may be the current notion of religious observances, - whether they are to consist in solemn processions, or scenic actings and other mysteries; or in festive sacrifice, or in burning incense, or in offering of the host, or in preaching and public litany; in every case it is evident to all, that the priest, prophet or teacher needs material funds; and the instinct of all who venerate the religion impels them to supply the need, according to their ability. From the earliest times, to provide for the permanence of religious worship, by building and endowing temples, was esteemed a rious act. Indeed it seems not merely an innocent, but a laudable impulse; and one might at first wonder what anyone could find to disapprove. Of course the question is not, whether that is the very best way of applying private or public money; but simply whether it is legitimate.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330695089
• ISBN 13: 9781330695081
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 26