Current religious perils : with preludes and other addresses on leading reforms and a symposium on vital and progressive orthodoxy /

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Author / Creator:Cook, Joseph, 1838-1901
Imprint:Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, 1888.
Description:xiii, 435 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Boston Monday lectures
Cook, Joseph, 1838-1901. Boston Monday lectures
ATLA monograph preservation program ATLA fiche 1985-0305.
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Format: Microform Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1068823
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ISBN:083702305X : $25.00
Notes:Includes index.
Microfiche. Chicago : American Theological Library Association, 1987. 2 microfiches ; 11 x 15 cm. (ATLA monograph preservation program ; ATLA fiche 1985-0305)
Table of Contents:
  • Waste of opportunity the chief peril of the church, with a prelude on leaders and misleaders in high places
  • Modern novel opportunity in philosophy, with a prelude on Lord's day lawlessness
  • Modern novel opportunity in theology, with a prelude on the Indian as a political cripple
  • Modern novel opportunity in ethical science, with a prelude on national perils from illiteracy
  • Modern novel opportunity in the spiritual life, with a prelude on creed and deed among church-members
  • Modern novel opportunity in comparative religion, with a prelude on Henry Ward Beecher as preacher and reformer
  • Modern novel opportunity for Christian union, with a prelude on men, money and motive in missions
  • New political outgrowths of Christianity, with a prelude on perjury and disloyalty among Mormons
  • Current religious perils
  • High-caste Hindu widows. Woman in new Japan. Prohibition in Canada
  • Scriptural and speculative standards of Orthodoxy. British proposals to America concerning arbitration
  • The future of cities and of the liquor traffic. Slavery and the saloon in politics. Promises and perils of the temperance reform
  • Religous creeds complete and incomplete in essentials. The death of Wendell Phillips. John B. Gough as orator and reformer.