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THE
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Vot. X. February 2, 1863. No. 60.
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LrXIV.—CHRISTIAN LIBERTY AND ITS
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The cause which is represented hy this M...
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The
THE
ENGLISH WOMAN ' S JOURNAL .
PUBLISHED MONTHLY .
Vot. X. February 2, 1863. No. 60.
_Vot . X . February 2 , 1863 . No . 60 .
Lrxiv.—Christian Liberty And Its
LrXIV . _—CHRISTIAN LIBERTY AND ITS COUNTERFEIT .
The Cause Which Is Represented Hy This M...
The cause which is represented hy this Magazine is naturally associated with ideas of libert . Those who are striving to secure
y more to Eng varied lish women employmen the benefits t , are of justified a more in extended urging that cult , ure so , and far as of
these are needlessly withheld , some women , and indeed the whole sex , ht to be kep set t under free . On a c the ertain other bondage handthose , from who which have strong they
feelings oug against the removal of any of the , restraints hy which the education and the work of English women happen to be at
wi the th present a false freedom moment , and confined losing , are the afraid refinement of women and becoming the usefulness free
which they hold upon the tenure of moving in a restricted circle . sis It ting is very in a impor servi tant ce , no t t herefore crushed , th from at true within ideas nor of hampered liberty , as from
conwithout , should be , generally diffused . It is most desirable that the ambitious should be preserved from going astray after the
love of a false liberty ; and it is also most desirable that the conservative should be warned against maintaining foolish obstacles
in the way of genuine liberty . The following paper contains thoughts on Christian liberty according to St . Paul ' s view of it ,
which were not composed for this Magazine , but which may t p ions erhap of s be useful twhich , in Christians bringing will before confess its readers to be those most authori concep-
tative and sacred y . In one of his _EjDistlesSt . Paul is led to proclaimwith great
earnestness , the principle , of true Christian liberty . It , was proved In the Churches of Galatia that this liberty is not a condition
which every man naturally likes and enjoys . It could not hold i ts ground . St . Paul as a represent source of s p it leasure as one ; it of needed the hi to gh be charac pursued teristics as a
of that y vocation with which Christians are called . Those who accept that calling , he maintains , inherit a condition of freedom .
The vol y . x . ht to be jealous in asserting and preserving i ) » their
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 2, 1863, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02021863/page/1/
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