Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume04 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 04
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: Progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive Era social gospel
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he near future will revere as a man who, prophet-like, saw beyondthe sect to which he belonged; whose noble, loving, and holy nature drewhim into intimate relationship with the Divine life, which is the essenceof Love. * Since writing the above the Assembly at Detroit bas voted against the confirmationof Dr. Briggs by 440 against 60; thus, from a numerical point or view, Dr. Briggs is inthe minority. This is dv no means surprising, and I regard it greatly to the credit ofthe Assembly that, while they hold to the severe doctrines popularly known as Cal-vinism, they repudiate all the great liberal scholars who refuse to believe and teachconceptions of God which were unquestioningly accepted in a former age, but whichthe enlightenment of the present century shrinks from with unutterable horror. Un-less Dr. Briggs proves a dishonest man and recants he must leave Union TheologicalSeminary, if that institution remains in the Presbyterian fellowship. Digitized by VjOOQIC Digitized by VjOOQIC
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Digitized by VjOOQIC THE ARENA. No. XXI. AUGUST, 1891. THE UNITY OF GERMANY. BY MME. BLAZE DE BURY. The Idea Whence Sprang the Fact.* Since the Great French Revolution of 1789 and itsimmediate consequence in the military despotism of Bona-parte, nothing has occurred that has so convulsed the OldWorld and so altered the conditions of men and things, asthe establishment of the United German Empire in 1870.The men of our time are obliged to know how this eventcame about, or remain in ignorance of all that has hap-pened during the twenty years following it — that is, toignore their own political status. Now two records of this enormous change in all our des-tinies exist; as yet there are but two, and modern men arebound in duty to take cognizance of them. One is thefamous u History, written in Germany by Heinrich von Sybel;the other the work of Prof. L6vy Briihl, published in France.Both must be read.f The remarkable book of M. L£vy Briihl on the recon-struction of the German Empire ca

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