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Excerpt from A Lecture: Delivered in the Musical Fund Hall, on Tuesday Evening, November 26, 1860, in Answer to Archbishop Hughes on the Decline of Protestantism
I am not ashamed of the Protestant name! I hold it to be associated with all that gives character to the most liberal and enlightened nations on the globe. I am not ashamed of the Protestant faith. It Is not the vagiie, unmeaning thing which its enemies would make it. It Is something positive. In proof of this we. Point to the two most powerful Christian nations on earth! The kingdom of Great Britain, and the Republic of the United States of North America are Protestant, and they owe their greatness to this very cause. We claim as due to Protestantism, the most brilliant achieve merits and embellishments of literature, and the most profound investigations and discoveries of science, and we declare openly that neither literature nor science can flourish In any land that Is bereft of the fostering care of Protestant culture. We hold Protestantism to be essential moreover to the very existence of sound Christianity. - No form of religious faith or worship, which distinctly discards the Protestant element from creed or cultus, whilst it holds on to the Christian name, ever has been, ever can be, ought else than a caricature of the religion of Jesus Christ. Protestant mmtis as essential to civil liberty and to religious free %m, as-the air we breathe to the maintenance of life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
