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CHAPTER XIV. FIVE CONCLUSIONS. THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF

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Protestants must Accept the Bible _in Fact_, as well as in Theory, or be Overthrown--The Bible must be Reinterpreted in the Light of “Higher Criticism” and Deeper Spiritual Life--The Present Tendencies in Bible Study Mark the Opening of the Second Stage of the Protestant Movement--Baptism must Cease to be the Foot-Ball of Denominational Polemics and be Raised to a Question of Obedience to the Example of Christ--Protestants must Return to the Sabbath, Christianized by Christ, and to True Sabbathism, Which Is as Undenominational as Faith--Such Sabbathism, and God’s Sabbath, must be Restored to the Place from Which Pagan No-Sabbathism and the Pagan Sunday Drove Them--“Sabbath” Legislation Is Unchristian--All Union of Christianity with the State must Yield before the Normal Development of True Protestantism.

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