Excerpt from The Denomination and Its Colleges: Three Addresses<br><br>It is too late to question the right of denomina tions to live. Old extravagancies no longer mark denominational life. Old animosities are gone. We no longer express disapproval of a neighbor's views by burning him. Religion now consists in something more than hating those who difi'er from one. Denominations are seen to have their root in common religious experience, to be built ao cording to a common faith, only expressing differ ence of conception in detail. This for our genera tion is commonplace, but it was once strange doctrine, and even still needs emphasis as ground ing denominational rights and obligations.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.