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| Material Type: | Juvenile audience |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Charles Carleton Coffin |
| ISBN: | 093855820X 9780938558200 |
| OCLC Number: | 18048951 |
| Notes: | Reprint. Originally published: New York : Harper, 1879. Includes index. |
| Description: | 415 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | John Lackland and the barons -- Man who preached after he was dead -- Fire that was kindled in bohemia -- What Laurence Coster and John Guttenberg did for liberty -- Men who ask questions -- How a man tried to reach the east by sailing west -- New home of liberty -- Boy who objecting to marrying his brother's widow -- Man who can do no wrong -- Boy who sung for his breakfast -- What the boy who sung for his breakfast saw in Rome -- Boy-cardinal -- Boy-emperor -- Field of the cloth of gold -- Men who obey orders -- Plans that did not come to pass -- Man who split the church in Twain -- Queen who burned heretics -- How liberty began in France -- Man who filled the world with woe -- Progress of liberty in England -- How the pope put down the heretics -- Queen of the Scots -- St. Bartholomew -- How the "Beggars" fought for their rights -- Why the Queen of Scotland lost her head -- Retribution that followed crime -- William Brewster and his friends -- Star of empire -- "Half-moon" -- Strangers and pilgrims. |
| Responsibility: | by Charles Carleton Coffin. |
Abstract:
If truly God had specific plans for this country and the people who were to inhabit it, have God's plans reached their fulfillment? Does America still have a rendezvous with destiny? Is there yet a generation to come forth from this nation which will turn the hearts of not only its countrymen back to the living God, but the hearts of the world as well? It is with this in mind that we have endeavored to republish Charles Coffin's The Story of Liberty, originally published in 1879. The Story of Liberty is not America's story alone. It belongs to all those who are enjoying freedom and liberty in any part of the world. And it belongs to all nations that will yet serve Him. As we reach back into the records of history to observe the hand of the Great Author of all liberty, we will find direction for the days ahead and discover the keys we need to understand and interpret the future. As we look at that which preceded our nations history and led to its founding, we will begin to have an idea of what liberty cost those who love the truth and how much still is at stake. We cannot neglect the present and hope to enjoy in the future the blessings of the past. Liberty was purchased by Christian courage, self-sacrifice, and unceasing vigilance. Only by these virtues can we hope to keep it. We must, by God's grace, be as determined to protect our liberties as our forefathers were to win them.. 'Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.' (Gal. 5:1 KJV)
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