William Wilberforce, A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians in the Higher and Middle Classes in This Country: Contrasted with Real Christianity
"The instructive admonitions, “give an account of thy stewardship,“—“occupy till I come;” are forgotten. Thus the generous and wakeful spirit of Christian Benevolence, seeking and finding every where occasions for its exercise, is exploded, and a system of decent selfishness is avowedly established in its stead; a system scarcely more to be abjured for its impiety, than to be abhorred for its cold insensibility to the opportunities of diffusing happiness."
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"The instructive admonitions, “give an account of thy stewardship,“—“occupy till I come;” are forgotten. Thus the generous and wakeful spirit of Christian Benevolence, seeking and finding every where occasions for its exercise, is exploded, and a system of decent selfishness is avowedly established in its stead; a system scarcely more to be abjured for its impiety, than to be abhorred for its cold insensibility to the opportunities of diffusing happiness."
"تُنسى تلك المواعظ الهادية: "أعطِ حسابًا عن وكالتك"، و"تاجروا حتى أجيء". وهكذا، تُقضى على الروح السخية اليقظة للإحسان المسيحي، التي كانت تبحث وتجد في كل مكان فرصًا لممارستها، ويُقام بدلاً منها نظامٌ من الأنانية المهذبة المعلنة؛ نظامٌ لا ينبغي أن يُنبذ لتدينه فحسب، بل يجب أن يُكره لقسوته الباردة وغفلته عن فرص نشر السعادة."
William Wilberforce, A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians in the Higher and Middle Classes in This Country: Contrasted with Real Christianity
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