Hours at Home, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from Hours at Home, Vol. 1: A Popular Monthly, Devoted to Religious and Useful Literature, September, 1865 Undoubtedly there are lovers of civil freedom in Germany who would repel such sentiments, as there were many in the Frankfort Assembly itself. Yet this is the prevailing type of German liberalism - that element of German society which contributes most to American immigra tion. We have some two hundred Ger man newspapers, daily and weekly, in this country. At least four fifths of them argue habitually upon the ground that man is to himself the Highest - that man only is our god, our judge, our sav iour - that Christianity assigns to an im aginary world the happiness which right ly belongs to this - that freedom, equal ity, and happiness involve freedom from all supernatural restraint. Atheism, pan theistic and humanitary, in short, is the key of their whole political and social creed. We have just seen the operative force of this infidel principle in the strug gle made by the German masses of Mis souri against the new constitution, which was very acceptable to them in every re spect save its recognition of a Supreme Being. On that ground, they united with the Roman Catholics, who opposed it be cause it did not grant certain immunities to their church property, and with the rebel sympathizers who disrelished the stringent oaths of loyalty it prescribed, and came within a few hundred votes of se curing its defeat. This is but the begin ning of the license which German infidel ity will seek to introduce into our repub lican system. 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.