Religious Liberty in South America: With Special Reference to Recent Legislation in Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia

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Jennings and Graham, 1907 - 266 sayfa

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Sayfa 214 - NOT UNTO us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.
Sayfa 221 - A man enjoys religious liberty when he possesses the free right of worshiping God according to the dictates of a right conscience and of practising the form of religion most in accordance with his duties to God (49th edition, 1897, page 264).
Sayfa 65 - I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 21st instant, in which you...
Sayfa 160 - Our representative has been instructed to use all permissible friendly endeavors to induce the Government of Bolivia to amend its marriage laws so as to give legal status to the non-Catholic and civil marriages of aliens within its jurisdiction, and strong hopes are entertained that the Bolivian law in this regard will be brought, as was that of Peru some years ago, into harmony with the general practice of modern States.
Sayfa 218 - Here are golden words spoken by the delegate in concluding his discourse: 'Go forward, in one hand bearing the book of Christian truth and in the other the constitution of the United States.
Sayfa 250 - That the Church of Rome has shed more innocent blood than any other institution that has ever existed among mankind, will be questioned by no Protestant who has a competent knowledge of history. The memorials, indeed, of many of her persecutions are now so scanty that it is impossible to form a complete conception of the multitude of her victims, and it is quite certain that no powers of imagination can adequately realize their sufferings.
Sayfa 221 - God according to the dictates of a right conscience, and of practicing a form of religion most in accordance with his duties to God. Every act infringing on his freedom of conscience is justly styled religious intolerance. This religious liberty is the true right of every man because it corresponds with a most certain duty which God has put upon him. A man enjoys civil liberty when he is exempt from the arbitrary will of others, and when he is governed by equitable laws established for the general...
Sayfa 252 - Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.
Sayfa 218 - These days will always be to us a memory of sweetness. Sweet indeed it has been for God's long separated children to meet at last, for those whom the haps and mishaps of human life have put so far apart, and whom the foolishness of the human heart has so often arrayed in hostility, here to clasp hands in friendship and in...
Sayfa 148 - To this letter there came the reply: "Executive Mansion, "Washington, June 17, 1897. "Dear Sir,—The President directs me to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th instant relative to the...

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