United States or Brunei ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
He reduced it to order, expounded it with energy and consistency, but one has only to recall its major doctrines of the depravity of man, the atonement for sin, the irresistible grace of the Holy Spirit, to see how untouched it was by the characteristic postulates of the new humanism. And it was on his theology that New England preaching was founded.
The comparison, therefore, holds good, the mother with us being practically step-mother to children of another race; and if she is sensible, and amenable to nature's teaching, she will attribute their seemingly unsuitable ways and appetites to the right cause, and not to a hypothetical perversity or inherent depravity of heart, about which many authors will have spoken to her in many books: But though they wrote it all by rote They did not write it right.
Are the Crowningshields and the Knapps innocent? What is innocence? How deep stained with blood, how reckless in crime, how deep in depravity may it be, and yet remain innocence? The law is made, if we would speak with entire accuracy, to protect the innocent by punishing the guilty.
"You don't mean it?" remarked Tim Rokens, crossing his legs and devoting himself to his pipe, with the air of a man who mourned the depravity of his species, but did not feel called upon to disturb his equanimity very much because of it. Phil Briant clenched his teeth, and glared. "Indeed I do mean it," reiterated the trader.
I thought I'd try one of the attics, as we were late, not to disturb the house. I 'm not hurt, I tell you, he cried as loud as he could. The usher's words were in a confusion of rage and inquiries. He commanded Heriot to stand on his legs, abused him, asked him what he meant by it, accused him of depravity, of crime, of disgraceful conduct, and attempted to pluck him from the spot.
He chose rather to sacrifice all the treasures of his kingdom, and all the members of his family, than part with his sins and become holy in heart and life. Such is the temper of depravity. The servants of sin are sooner persuaded to make any other sacrifice than that of their lusts and corruptions.
You know I am exchanging one for the other. And some day you will awake to the infamy of it; you will comprehend the depravity of the monstrous trade I made. And then and then "
It was the Congo business that lay at the bottom of the abuse of Leopold. Henry Stanley had put him up to this. It turned out a gold mine, and then two streams of defamation were let loose; one from the covetous commercial standpoint and the other from the humanitarian. Between them, seeking to drive him out, they depicted him as a monster of cruelty and depravity.
"I'm saying nothing it's not me, it's all the world. It was in the papers, you must have read them, the most awful story, such such depravity there never was such treachery, such gross misconduct." He caught me by the arm so violently and looked so fierce that for a moment I was quite alarmed. "Drop it, I tell you. Leave the lady alone, both by word and deed.
"Either fact were enough to make them repulsive," replied the girl, "but it is the fact that they were without souls that made them totally impossible one easily overlooks physical deformity, but the moral depravity that must be inherent in a creature without a soul must forever cut him off from intercourse with human beings."
Word Of The Day