Religious liberty in South America, with special reference to recent legislation in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia

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Eaton and Main, 1907 - 272 páginas
 

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Página 214 - NOT UNTO us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.
Página 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 practicing a form of religion most in accordance with his duties to God.
Página 148 - Dear Sir, — The President directs me to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th instant relative to the liberty of religious worship in certain South American Republics, and.
Página 155 - Pope who has been proclaimed a Saint for many centuries, having deprived Elizabeth, commissioned an assassin to take her life; and his next successor, on learning that the Protestants were being massacred in France, pronounced the action glorious and holy, but comparatively barren of results; and implored the King during two months, by his Nuncio and his Legate, to carry the work on to the bitter end until every Huguenot had recanted or perished.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 141 - Sir, — I am directed by the Marquis of Salisbury to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 25th instant, and to inform you that...
Página 221 - 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 welfare of society. So long as, in common with his fellow-citizens, he observes the laws of the state, any exceptional restraint imposed upon him, in the exercise of his rights as a citizen, is so far an infringement on his civil liberty. I here assert the proposition, which I hope to confirm by historical evidence, that the Catholic Church has always...
Página 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.
Página 218 - 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 brotherhood, in the presence of the blessed and loving Father of us all; sweet to see and feel that it is an awful wrong for religion, which is of the God of love, to inspire animosity, hatred, which is of the evil one; sweet to tie...

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