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The form of Christianity to which they were exposed was for some the Protestantism of the older stock, for others the Protestantism of the nineteenth-century immigration ; for still others, mostly of the nineteenth-century immigration, it was Roman Catholicism, and for a small minority it was Eastern Orthodoxy. | was | {
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Upon all of them played the intellectual, social, political, and economic attitudes, institutions, and customs of the nation. | played | {
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Upon most of these Christianity had left an impress and through them had had a share in making the individual what he was. | left | {
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Upon most of these Christianity had left an impress and through them had had a share in making the individual what he was. | making | {
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Upon most of these Christianity had left an impress and through them had had a share in making the individual what he was. | was | {
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Yet to determine precisely to what extent and exactly in what ways any individual showed the effects of Christianity would be impossible. | determine | {
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Yet to determine precisely to what extent and exactly in what ways any individual showed the effects of Christianity would be impossible. | showed | {
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Yet to determine precisely to what extent and exactly in what ways any individual showed the effects of Christianity would be impossible. | be | {
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At best only an approximation could be arrived at. | arrived at | {
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To generalize for the entire nation would be absurd. | generalize | {
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To generalize for the entire nation would be absurd. | be | {
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For instance, we cannot know whether even for church members the degree of conformity to Christian standards of morality increased or declined as the proportion of church members in the population rose. | know | {
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For instance, we cannot know whether even for church members the degree of conformity to Christian standards of morality increased or declined as the proportion of church members in the population rose. | increased | {
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For instance, we cannot know whether even for church members the degree of conformity to Christian standards of morality increased or declined as the proportion of church members in the population rose. | declined | {
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For instance, we cannot know whether even for church members the degree of conformity to Christian standards of morality increased or declined as the proportion of church members in the population rose. | rose | {
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The temptation is to say that, as the percentage of church members mounted, the degree of discipline exercised by the churches lessened and the trend was towards conformity to the general level. | is | {
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The temptation is to say that, as the percentage of church members mounted, the degree of discipline exercised by the churches lessened and the trend was towards conformity to the general level. | say | {
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The temptation is to say that, as the percentage of church members mounted, the degree of discipline exercised by the churches lessened and the trend was towards conformity to the general level. | mounted | {
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The temptation is to say that, as the percentage of church members mounted, the degree of discipline exercised by the churches lessened and the trend was towards conformity to the general level. | exercised | {
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The temptation is to say that, as the percentage of church members mounted, the degree of discipline exercised by the churches lessened and the trend was towards conformity to the general level. | lessened | {
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The temptation is to say that, as the percentage of church members mounted, the degree of discipline exercised by the churches lessened and the trend was towards conformity to the general level. | was | {
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Yet this cannot be proved. | proved | {
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We know that in the early part of the century many Protestant congregations took positive action against members who transgressed the ethical codes to which the majority subscribed. | know | {
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We know that in the early part of the century many Protestant congregations took positive action against members who transgressed the ethical codes to which the majority subscribed. | took | {
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We know that in the early part of the century many Protestant congregations took positive action against members who transgressed the ethical codes to which the majority subscribed. | transgressed | {
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We know that in the early part of the century many Protestant congregations took positive action against members who transgressed the ethical codes to which the majority subscribed. | subscribed | {
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Thus Baptist churches on the frontier took cognizance of charges against their members of drunkenness, fighting, malicious gossip, lying, cheating, sexual irregularities, gambling, horse racing, and failure to pay just debts. | pay | {
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If guilty, the offender might be excluded from membership. | excluded | {
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As church membership burgeoned, such measures faded into desuetude. | burgeoned | {
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As church membership burgeoned, such measures faded into desuetude. | faded | {
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But whether this was accompanied by a general lowering of the moral life of the membership we do not know. | accompanied | {
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But whether this was accompanied by a general lowering of the moral life of the membership we do not know. | know | {
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What we can attempt with some hope of dependable conclusions is to point out the manner in which Christianity entered into particular aspects of the life of the nation. | attempt | {
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What we can attempt with some hope of dependable conclusions is to point out the manner in which Christianity entered into particular aspects of the life of the nation. | point out | {
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What we can attempt with some hope of dependable conclusions is to point out the manner in which Christianity entered into particular aspects of the life of the nation. | entered | {
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We have already hinted at the fashion in which Christianity contributed to education and so to intellectual life. | hinted | {
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We have already hinted at the fashion in which Christianity contributed to education and so to intellectual life. | contributed | {
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We will now speak of the ways in which it helped shape the ideals of the country and of the manner in which it stimulated efforts to attain those ideals through reform movements, through programs for bringing the collective life to the nation to conformity to Christian standards, and through leaders in the government. | speak | {
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We will now speak of the ways in which it helped shape the ideals of the country and of the manner in which it stimulated efforts to attain those ideals through reform movements, through programs for bringing the collective life to the nation to conformity to Christian standards, and through leaders in the government. | helped | {
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We will now speak of the ways in which it helped shape the ideals of the country and of the manner in which it stimulated efforts to attain those ideals through reform movements, through programs for bringing the collective life to the nation to conformity to Christian standards, and through leaders in the government. | shape | {
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We will now speak of the ways in which it helped shape the ideals of the country and of the manner in which it stimulated efforts to attain those ideals through reform movements, through programs for bringing the collective life to the nation to conformity to Christian standards, and through leaders in the government. | stimulated | {
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We will now speak of the ways in which it helped shape the ideals of the country and of the manner in which it stimulated efforts to attain those ideals through reform movements, through programs for bringing the collective life to the nation to conformity to Christian standards, and through leaders in the government. | attain | {
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We will now speak of the ways in which it helped shape the ideals of the country and of the manner in which it stimulated efforts to attain those ideals through reform movements, through programs for bringing the collective life to the nation to conformity to Christian standards, and through leaders in the government. | bringing | {
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Throughout the nineteenth century Christianity exerted its influence on American society as a whole primarily through the Protestantism of the older stock. | exerted | {
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By the end of the century the Roman Catholic Church was beginning to make itself felt, mainly through such institutions as hospitals but also through its attitude towards organized labor. | beginning | {
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By the end of the century the Roman Catholic Church was beginning to make itself felt, mainly through such institutions as hospitals but also through its attitude towards organized labor. | make | {
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By the end of the century the Roman Catholic Church was beginning to make itself felt, mainly through such institutions as hospitals but also through its attitude towards organized labor. | felt | {
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In the twentieth century its influence grew, as did that of the Protestantism of the nineteenth-century immigration. | grew | {
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Thus `` America '', the most widely sung of the patriotic songs, was written by a New England Baptist clergyman, Samuel Francis Smith ( 1808 - 1895 ), while a student in Andover Theological Seminary. | sung | {
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Thus `` America '', the most widely sung of the patriotic songs, was written by a New England Baptist clergyman, Samuel Francis Smith ( 1808 - 1895 ), while a student in Andover Theological Seminary. | written | {
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With its zeal for liberty and its dependence on God it breathed the spirit which had been nourished on the Evangelical revivals. | nourished | {
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The great seal of the United States was obviously inspired by the Christian faith. | inspired | {
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Here was what was called the American dream, namely, the effort to build a structure which would be something new in history and to do so in such fashion that God could bless it. | was | {
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Here was what was called the American dream, namely, the effort to build a structure which would be something new in history and to do so in such fashion that God could bless it. | called | {
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Here was what was called the American dream, namely, the effort to build a structure which would be something new in history and to do so in such fashion that God could bless it. | build | {
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Here was what was called the American dream, namely, the effort to build a structure which would be something new in history and to do so in such fashion that God could bless it. | be | {
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Here was what was called the American dream, namely, the effort to build a structure which would be something new in history and to do so in such fashion that God could bless it. | bless | {
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Later in the century the dream again found expression in the lines of Katherine Lee Bates ( 1859 - 1929 ), daughter and granddaughter of New England Congregational ministers, in her widely sung hymn, written in 1893, `` America the Beautiful '', with the words `` O beautiful for pilgrim feet whose stern impassioned str... | found | {
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Later in the century the dream again found expression in the lines of Katherine Lee Bates ( 1859 - 1929 ), daughter and granddaughter of New England Congregational ministers, in her widely sung hymn, written in 1893, `` America the Beautiful '', with the words `` O beautiful for pilgrim feet whose stern impassioned str... | written | {
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Later in the century the dream again found expression in the lines of Katherine Lee Bates ( 1859 - 1929 ), daughter and granddaughter of New England Congregational ministers, in her widely sung hymn, written in 1893, `` America the Beautiful '', with the words `` O beautiful for pilgrim feet whose stern impassioned str... | beat | {
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America, America, God mend thy every flaw, confirm thy soul in self control, thy liberty in law. | mend | {
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America, America, God mend thy every flaw, confirm thy soul in self control, thy liberty in law. | confirm | {
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O beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years thine alabaster cities gleam undimmed by human tears. | sees | {
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O beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years thine alabaster cities gleam undimmed by human tears. | gleam | {
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America, America, God shed His grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea ''. | shed | {
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America, America, God shed His grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea ''. | crown | {
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The American dream was compounded of many strains. | compounded | {
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Some were clearly of Christian origin, among them the Great Awakening and other revivals which helped to make Christian liberty, Christian equality, and Christian fraternity the passion of the land. | were | {
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Some were clearly of Christian origin, among them the Great Awakening and other revivals which helped to make Christian liberty, Christian equality, and Christian fraternity the passion of the land. | helped | {
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Some were clearly of Christian origin, among them the Great Awakening and other revivals which helped to make Christian liberty, Christian equality, and Christian fraternity the passion of the land. | make | {
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Some have seen revivalism and the search for Christian perfection as the fountain-head of the American hope. | seen | {
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Here, too, must be placed Unitarianism and, less obviously from Christian inspiration, Emerson, Transcendentalism, and the idealism of Walt Whitman. | placed | {
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We must also remember those who reacted against the dream as a kind of myth - among them Melville, Hawthorne, and Henry James the elder, all of them out of a Christian background. | remember | {
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We must also remember those who reacted against the dream as a kind of myth - among them Melville, Hawthorne, and Henry James the elder, all of them out of a Christian background. | reacted | {
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With such a dream arising, at least in part, from the Protestant heritage of the United States and built into the foundations of the nation, it is not surprising that many efforts were made to give it concrete expression. | arising | {
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With such a dream arising, at least in part, from the Protestant heritage of the United States and built into the foundations of the nation, it is not surprising that many efforts were made to give it concrete expression. | built | {
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With such a dream arising, at least in part, from the Protestant heritage of the United States and built into the foundations of the nation, it is not surprising that many efforts were made to give it concrete expression. | is | {
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With such a dream arising, at least in part, from the Protestant heritage of the United States and built into the foundations of the nation, it is not surprising that many efforts were made to give it concrete expression. | made | {
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A number were in the nature of movements to relieve or remove social ills. | were | {
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A number were in the nature of movements to relieve or remove social ills. | relieve | {
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A number were in the nature of movements to relieve or remove social ills. | remove | {
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Significantly, the initiation and leadership of a major proportion of the reform movements, especially those in the first half of the nineteenth century, came from men and women of New England birth or parentage and from either Trinitarian or Unitarian Congregationalism. | came | {
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Several of the movements were given a marked impetus by revivalism. | given | {
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Quakers, some from New England, had a larger share than their proportionate numerical strength would have warranted. | had | {
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Quakers, some from New England, had a larger share than their proportionate numerical strength would have warranted. | warranted | {
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We do well to remind ourselves that from men and women of New England ancestry also issued the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Seventh Day Adventists, Christian Science, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the American Home Missionary Society, the American Bible Society, and New E... | do well | {
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We do well to remind ourselves that from men and women of New England ancestry also issued the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Seventh Day Adventists, Christian Science, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the American Home Missionary Society, the American Bible Society, and New E... | remind | {
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We do well to remind ourselves that from men and women of New England ancestry also issued the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Seventh Day Adventists, Christian Science, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the American Home Missionary Society, the American Bible Society, and New E... | issued | {
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The atmosphere was one of optimism, of confidence in human progress, and of a determination to rid the world of its ills. | was | {
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The atmosphere was one of optimism, of confidence in human progress, and of a determination to rid the world of its ills. | rid | {
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"sense_definitions_list": [
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} | [
"relieve from"
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The Hopkinsian universal disinterested benevolence, although holding to original sin and the doctrine of election, inspired its adherents to heroic endeavors for others, looked for the early coming of the Millennium, and was paralleled by the confidence in man 's ability cherished by the Unitarians, Emerson, and the Tr... | holding | {
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The Hopkinsian universal disinterested benevolence, although holding to original sin and the doctrine of election, inspired its adherents to heroic endeavors for others, looked for the early coming of the Millennium, and was paralleled by the confidence in man 's ability cherished by the Unitarians, Emerson, and the Tr... | inspired | {
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The Hopkinsian universal disinterested benevolence, although holding to original sin and the doctrine of election, inspired its adherents to heroic endeavors for others, looked for the early coming of the Millennium, and was paralleled by the confidence in man 's ability cherished by the Unitarians, Emerson, and the Tr... | looked for | {
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The Hopkinsian universal disinterested benevolence, although holding to original sin and the doctrine of election, inspired its adherents to heroic endeavors for others, looked for the early coming of the Millennium, and was paralleled by the confidence in man 's ability cherished by the Unitarians, Emerson, and the Tr... | paralleled | {
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The Hopkinsian universal disinterested benevolence, although holding to original sin and the doctrine of election, inspired its adherents to heroic endeavors for others, looked for the early coming of the Millennium, and was paralleled by the confidence in man 's ability cherished by the Unitarians, Emerson, and the Tr... | cherished | {
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We should recall the number of movements for the service of mankind which arose from the kindred Evangelicalism of the British Isles and the Pietism of the Continent of Europe - among them prison reform, anti-slavery measures, legislation for the alleviation of conditions of labor, the Inner Mission, and the Red Cross. | recall | {
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We should recall the number of movements for the service of mankind which arose from the kindred Evangelicalism of the British Isles and the Pietism of the Continent of Europe - among them prison reform, anti-slavery measures, legislation for the alleviation of conditions of labor, the Inner Mission, and the Red Cross. | arose | {
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] | [
"arise%2:42:00::"
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We cannot take the space to record all the efforts for the removal or alleviation of collective ills. | take | {
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We cannot take the space to record all the efforts for the removal or alleviation of collective ills. | record | {
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A few of the more prominent must serve as examples of what a complete listing and description would disclose. | serve | {
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