William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity : ‘The Christian relaxes in the temperate use of all the gifts of Providence (…). He relaxes in the feast of … Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity (Dublin: Robert Dapper, 1797), p. 329. The recklessness of his prime youth was permanently curbed when, in … through a shaping of public opinion by both the spoken word and the written word. Hence his publication of Practical Christianity in which he outlined a ‘vision for a stable Christian social order’ ( ODNB 8) and, in 1823, of An Appeal to …
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