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| | Religious tendencies in the United States - Amory Dwight Mayo |
 | | This growing Christian public opinion, which is uniting and fusing all the progressive elements in every church, is, of course, felt most strongly in those parts of the country where Christian influences have longest prevailed, and society is most homogeneous. |
 | | Yet even in the West, especially the North-West, where society is more united under the leading influence of the New-England and New-York mind, the same tendency appears; although Catholicism and copperhead Episcopacy rear their heads in insolent pretension in these cities, and every form of skepticism, even to a scoffing atheism, desolates the land. |
 | | America cannot live on a mental or moral philosophy, a science, a sentimentalism, or any thing less mighty and all embracing than a religion; and towards the Christian religion of love to God and man the best mind and heart and hand of the country are tending, beneath the upper conflict of theologies and forms. |
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