Josiah Strong quotes

“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.”
-- Josiah Strong

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

Source : Josiah Strong (1893). “The New Era: Or, The Coming Kingdom”

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“We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources.”
-- Josiah Strong

Source : Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”

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“The Anglo-Saxon has established himself in climates totally diverse - Canada, South Africa, and India - and, through several generations, has preserved his essential race characteristics. He is not, of course, superior to climatic influences; but even in warm climates, he is likely to retain his aggressive vigor long enough to supplant races already enfeebled.”
-- Josiah Strong

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“The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.”
-- Josiah Strong

Source : Josiah Strong (1893). “The New Era: Or, The Coming Kingdom”

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“There are many in the Church as well as out of it who need to learn that Christianity is neither creed nor a ceremonial, but a life vitaly connected with a loving Christ.”
-- Josiah Strong

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“Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.”
-- Josiah Strong

Source : Josiah Strong (1891). “Our Country, Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis”

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“The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.”
-- Josiah Strong

Source : Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”

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“It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.”
-- Josiah Strong

Source : Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”

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“As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.”
-- Josiah Strong

Source : Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”

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“Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.”
-- Josiah Strong

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“Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.”
-- Josiah Strong

Source : Josiah Strong (1891). “Our Country, Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis”

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“Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.”
-- Josiah Strong

Source : Josiah Strong (1891). “Our Country, Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis”

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“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.”
-- Josiah Strong

Source : Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”

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“The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center,”
-- Josiah Strong

Source : Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”

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

Source : Josiah Strong (1893). “The New Era: Or, The Coming Kingdom”

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“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.”
-- Josiah Strong

Source : Josiah Strong (1885). “Our country: its possible future and its present crisis”

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