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Title: The story of John Frederic Oberlin
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Beard, Augustus Field, 1833-1934
Subjects: Oberlin, Johann Friedrich, 1740-1826 Theologians
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) The Pilgrim Press
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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at Strasburg; what do you thinkof the old Sunday at nine oclock in the morn-ing? This was carried unanimously. Accord-ingly, on the next Sunday, the citizen Oratorused the pulpit as a tribune, and beginning byreading the National Convention Decree, pro-ceeded as follows: According to this decree, Iam to exhort you against the tyrants, and weare to confer for their destruction. Here in ourpeaceful valley we certainly have no such tyrantsas the Convention describes, and it would be use-less for me to speak about them. But I canname and describe to you other tyrants who livenot only in this valley but in your own houses,aye, even in your hearts. These tyrants arehatred, avarice, impurity, fleshly lusts, impiety,and pride. These are the tyrants I shall de-nounce here, and I shall confer with you on thebest means of bringing them down. I believethe best and the only means now and to alleternity are repentance towards God and faithin the Lord Jesus Christ. In this form he metthe Decree. 122
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DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION Madame de Stein, in her Souvenirs of Alsatia,gives some picturesque details of one of theseclub meetings: Desiring to be present at one of these, we deter-mined to go to Fouday. When we arrived, the peoplewere already assembled at the parish church. Wefound the benches all occupied by club men, exciseofficers, and women. Above and all around is a gal-lery where the organ was, and the young people were.The pulpit was at the right. The service had begun.The hymns had already been sung, to our regret. Weshared the benches. The examination of the boys andgirls was at that moment on The Rights of Man,which they knew by heart. The girls answered ques-tions with gentleness and modesty, but the boys, withsuch martial tones that I felt they would know how todefend their rights and be guardians of liberty. Itreminded me of the chorus of young and old men inancient Greece. The President arose, read the minutes of the lastmeeting, and referred to a discourse which one

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