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Excerpt from The Evolution of Immortality The Creed says, I believe in the resurrection Of the body. In its earlier and more naive form it says the resurrection of the flesh. This phrase is capable of a wider and more reasonable interpretation than the words would seem to imply. Such a meaning is Very gen erally read into it. But when the phrase was formulated, it was intended to mean precisely what it says. This is the meaning which it still...

Excerpt from Essays: Practical and Speculative But in the case of sex relationships it may as well be confessed that Nature does not seem to know her own mind. This is the origin Of the Whole moral con fusion upon the subject. In regard to other appetites and desires Nature is a trustworthy guide. Their existence is prima facie proof of their 1nnocence. They are warnings of needs. They protect them selves against abuse by the sense oi satiety...

Excerpt from History of the American Episcopal Church: Revised and Enlarged and Continued to the Year 1915 IN preparing this sketch of the American Church originally, I stopped at the close of the Civil War. Of course that was an arbitrary stopping place. The war was not an ecclesiastical epoch, and its settlement concluded no Church movement. But its date coin cided with that of the entrance upon the stage of the generation of Churchmen now ...

Excerpt from Sermon Stuff Travellers in high latitudes make much use of a highly concentrated article of food called Pemmican. A small handful of it is sufficient to sate the appetite of the hungriest man. But, unfortunately, the hungriest man cannot eat it. Its compressed fattiness and pungent juniper flavor are not available for him until he first expand it with moisture and fresh substance, until he triturate it and warm it, which being do...

Excerpt from Confessions of an Old Priest I have been for fifty years a minister in the church. I entered its ministry with enthusiasm, believing as I did that the church was the one organization in the world of divine institution, that it owes its origin to Jesus Christ, and that he was the unique Son of God. I have been reluctantly forced to ask myself whether any of these things is true. So far I have been silent and have retained the com...

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...