 | 1936 - 670 pages
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 | John Richard Green - 1901 - 281 pages
...of the people at large. The Bible was, as yet, the one book which was familiar to every Englishman ; and everywhere its words, as they fell on ears which...force and beauty, kindled a startling enthusiasm. The whole moral effect which is produced nowadays by the religious newspaper, the tract, the essay, the... | |
 | 500 pages
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 | 1940 - 286 pages
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 | 1913 - 676 pages
...England three hundred years ago, the teachings of the Bible in the speech of every day life would fall "On ears which custom had not deadened to their force and beauty." Protestant Christians have gloried in the independence of church and state in America. Have American... | |
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No greater moral change ever passed over a nation than passed over England during the years which parted the middle of the reign of Elizabeth from the meeting of the Long Parliament. England became the people of a book, and that book was the Bible. It... 
