Category Archives: Antique Christianity

The Fear of Racism

Posted on August 27, 2016 by cwny

And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. … Continue reading →

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The Long War

Posted on August 20, 2016 by cwny

Worshipping organization in too hard and primitive a sense they threaten to transform the human world into something more like a world of ants. In many respects, therefore, it is dangerous to by-pass history, or imagine that the natural sciences—as … Continue reading →

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The Twilight of the Great God Democracy

Posted on August 13, 2016 by cwny

Instead of the religion and the law by which they were in a great politick communion with the Christian world, they have constructed their Republick on three bases, all fundamentally opposite to those on which the communities of Europe are … Continue reading →

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We All Shall Come Home

Posted on June 18, 2016 by cwny

The indulgence of a sort of undefined hope, an obscure confidence, that some lurking remains of virtue, some degree of shame, might exist in the breasts of the oppressors of France, has been among the causes which have helped to … Continue reading →

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Christ Has Risen!

Posted on March 26, 2016 by cwny

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal … Continue reading →

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Of Home, of Faith, of Europe

Posted on March 12, 2016 by cwny

Years may go by, and the wheel in the riverWheel as it wheels for us, children, to-day,Wheel and keep roaring and foaming for everLong after all of the boys are away. Home from the Indies and home from the ocean,Heroes … Continue reading →

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A Sentimental Attachment

Posted on October 31, 2015 by cwny

And yet, my friends, there are people who say that all this sort of talk is “sentiment;” that what we want to do is to “come down to cotton and corn and pork;” buying and selling, negotiating your bank exchange; … Continue reading →

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We Labor and Weep

Posted on August 29, 2015 by cwny

You find it perfectly ridiculous, and unfit for me in particular, to take these things as my ingredients of commiseration. Pray why is it absurd in me to think, that the chivalrous spirit which dictated a veneration for women of … Continue reading →

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In His Image

Posted on August 15, 2015 by cwny

The Christian socialists are beautifully and energetically collaborating with the infidel socialists and abolitionists to bring about this millennium. They also are divided into two parties. The one would wait upon Providence – only help it a little, like Mr. … Continue reading →

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The Cure for Racistaphobia

Posted on July 18, 2015 by cwny

Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day: –Psalm 91: 5 __________ The Alcoholics Anonymous organization has always insisted that there can be no recovery from alcoholism until the alcoholic … Continue reading →

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