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In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

Author: Josiah Strong - American Clergyman
  Great , Society , Change , Earth


It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty.

Author: Josiah Strong - American Clergyman
  Great , Men , Light , Spiritual


Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.

Author: Josiah Strong - American Clergyman
  Long , Will , Here , Thousand


Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

Author: Josiah Strong - American Clergyman
  More , City , Poor , Growth


Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.

Author: Josiah Strong - American Clergyman
  Open , Our , Europe , Aristocracy


Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign.

Author: Josiah Strong - American Clergyman
  Only , Principal , Population , Irish


The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

Author: Josiah Strong - American Clergyman
  Serious , City , Civilization , Immigrant


The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

Author: Josiah Strong - American Clergyman
  City , Poor , Rich , Poverty


There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken.

Author: Josiah Strong - American Clergyman
  More , New , Will , Earth


There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power.

Author: Josiah Strong - American Clergyman
  Life , Power , Church , Spiritual


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