"America for Americans!": The Typical American : Thanksgiving Sermon of Rev. John P. Newman at Metropolitan M.E. Church, Washington, D.C., Thursday, November 25Th, 1886 - Softcover

Newman, John Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1482025396 ISBN 13: 9781482025392

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

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The controversial treatise long out of print that addresses: *Parenting & Family - Christian Life *Sacraments & Rites - Christianity *Prayer *Nationalism & Sovereignty *Social Sciences *Children's Ministry *Philosophy *United States History *Political Theory

DEAR FRIENDS: The sermon has excited a public interest beyond any thought of mine. I herewith send you the stenographic report of the discourse, made by Messrs. Dawson and Tasker. The wisdom of your request is confirmed by many letters from eminent citizens here and abroad, commending the sentiment and demanding the publication. I would like to print some of these letters, indicative of the deep feeling on this great subject. As stated in the sermon, intelligent foreigners approve my course. The Germans of Wisconsin have sent me a copy of their memorial to Congress, asking for such a modification of our naturalization laws as will protect our free institutions from selfish and ignorant immigrants. The intelligent foreigners have taken the initiative. Your Pastor, JOHN P. NEWMAN.

"And he is a true American citizen, whether foreign-born or native-born, who maintains, as an American institution, the Holy Sabbath-day. He can call it Sunday, after the old pagan god, but he must rest on the seventh day, rest from toil, rest in the interest of the dignity of labor, rest as discount upon capital, rest for intelligence, rest for compensation, rest for domestic happiness, rest for pious culture. The seventh day of every week should be consecrated to cessation from labor and devoted to physical and mental repose. It should not be a day of recreation."

"It may have escaped your notice that around this globe is a narrow zone, between the thirtieth and sixtieth parallels of north latitude, and within that narrow zone is our home. Within that belt of power has existed all the great nations of the past, and in it exist all the great nations of the present....Examine your globe, and there is Greece, that gave letters to the world; Rome, that gave jurisprudence to mankind; Palestine, that gave religion to our race. And today there is Germany, that gave a Luther to the church and a Gutenberg to science, and there is England, swaying her mighty sceptre over land and sear. Our location is in this wake of power-within this magical zone."

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John Philip Newman (1 September 1826 – 5 July 1899) was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1888. (Wikipedia)

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• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1482025396
• ISBN 13: 9781482025392
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 30