Download or read book Liberalism in Religion written by William Page Roberts and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Liberalism in Religion: And Other Sermons The words Liberal and Liberalism at once arouse a spirit of mistrust in many minds, which become unsympathetic, irreceptive, and resentful. Even those who appropriate these words in politics are less ready to adopt them in religion. Indeed, it seems as though men had but a strictly limited quantity Of mental motor energy, and that those who expend it in one kind of movement have none left for any other. Certainly the sects which are supposed to be the back bone oi political Liberalism are the most obstinately immovable in religion; and men ever ready to catch the first breeze impelling to political change have remained stolid as stone to the impulses Of spiritual progress. Like Lot's wife, their eyes are fixed on the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.