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Its spirit was well-nigh dead, and in its place there had gradually come into being a Pharisaic legalism a religion of form, ceremony. An extensive system of ecclesiastical tradition, ecclesiastical law and observances, which had gradually robbed the people of all their former spirit of religion, had been gradually built up by those in ecclesiastical authority.
A beginning, too, had been made in the doctrines of sin and grace and the way of salvation. But the development had been hindered by hierarchical traditionalism and by the spirit of legalism. These were the obstacles that stood in the way. The cry that went up to God from the hearts of the people in the days of the Reformation was "What must I do to be saved?"
If you disobey it you will be punished." And this he must say to him again and again. It is true that among the many commandments which the Law sets before its votaries, there are some the moral commandments, properly so called which do in point of fact, and in defiance of the philosophical assumption of legalism, appeal to the better nature of Man.
When I come to consider the effect of legalism or rather of the philosophy that underlies legalism on education, I may perhaps be able to find some court of law in which the case between the two schemes can be tried with the tacit consent of both.
Christ's condemnation of the Pharisees will occur to every one; the parable of the Pharisee and publican, and that of the widow's mite, among others, are classic illustrations of a cut-and dried formalism in morality. Such a legalism Paul found could not save him.
The plain truth is that legalism is precluded, by its own first principles from appealing to any motive higher than that instinctive desire for pleasure which has as its counterpart a quasi-physical fear of pain.
She was faithful and true, but, fed on the dried fish of logic and system and Roman legalism, she could not follow the simplicities of her daughter's religion, who trusted neither in notions about him, nor even in what he had done, but in the live Christ himself whom she loved and obeyed.
New life entered the Swedish colony. From the very beginning, however, a spirit of legalism, hierarchy, and of unionism wormed its way into the promising harvest. The congregations were not taught to govern themselves, but were ruled by provosts sent from Sweden. In the interest of discipline, Andreas Sandel, who arrived in 1702, introduced a system of monetary penances.
"It's the sort of place where he will perhaps find himself less trammelled by er legalism, and with more opportunities for his undoubted gift of initiative." "Will he accept your offer? Will he go?" she asked rather excitedly. "Without doubt, I think. It's really quite a good offer. And what prospects has he now, or here?" Mary stretched her hands towards the fire and gazed into it in silence.
The difficulty brings out clearly the fact that while the submarines made good pirates, they were hampered in warfare on legitimate lines. Germany redoubled U-boat activities to lend strength to her peace proposals at the close of 1916, and when these failed she decided to disregard altogether the cobwebs of legalism that had hitherto hindered her submarine war.
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