The spectre of active proselytism on the part of Protestants abroad was vigorously conjured up to stimulate vigilance and justify repression.
The Thirty Years' War gave the German Protestants ample occupation at home and, after the Peace of Westphalia, proselytism was out of fashion.
In Poland, too, proselytism was of frequent occurrence, especially in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
It can at once be seen that the absence of proselytism is the leading feature of works composed in such a spirit.
The proselytism of the faithful was chiefly carried on by means of pointed conversations, during which their hearty earnestness was gradually communicated to others.
But the instances show that proselytismwas encouraged.
Most of its adherents had come through conversion, and proselytism was a cardinal item in its program.
Enthusiastic in their calling, they pursued with ardour their mission of proselytism without experience of the world.
This kind of proselytism was encouraged only by Alexandrian or Hellenistic Judaism.
While the Halakah remained antagonistic to proselytism on account of its narrow adherence to the spirit of the Priestly Code, the Haggadah exhibits a broader view.
The school of Hillel followed in the footsteps of Hellenistic Judaism in accentuating the ethical element in the law;(1342) so naturally it encouragedproselytism as well.
The school of Shammai in its rigorous legalism opposed proselytism in general, and its chief representative, Eliezer ben Hyrcanos, distrusted proselytes altogether.
Thus a new impulse was given to Jewish proselytism in Alexandria, and the earlier history of Israel, especially the pre-Israelite epoch with its simple human types, was read in a new light.
We cannot abandon thisProselytism without deserting the Protestant principle.
Moral proselytism will aim at communicating enthusiasm for the good and the true, at uplifting the moral level of mankind as a whole and mainly of the masses of the people.
Anglo-Saxon religious proselytismhas achieved the distinction of contradicting and paralyzing itself.
Its position was false from the beginning, and obliged it to resort to persecution and official proselytism in order to put an end to the anomaly.
St. Athanasius and St. John Chrysostom protest in like manner against the intemperate proselytismof the day.
Bahá’u’lláh’s writings forbid the aggressiveproselytism through which many religious messages have been widely promulgated.
The aggressive proselytism that had characterized efforts in ages past to promote the cause of religion is declared to be unworthy of the Day of God.
He was received with the enthusiasm which his eminence merited, but, unfortunately, he died in November of the same year, and the Beghards were able to continue their proselytism without efficient opposition.
The fragmentary records of Fra Antonio Secco, who undertook the work in the spring of 1387, show how fruitless was the endeavor to co-operate with the ruthless proselytism of Borel.
The spirit of proselytism took possession of him later in life.
Delsarte is a spontaneous soul, his mind is at once Christian and free, his only passion is the proselytism of the Beautiful, and this is the charm of his speech.
In Scotland, James's zeal forproselytism was more successful.
Prussia, though a Protestant country, does not dream of making the public schools a machine either for proselytism or unification.
If the supporters of the Independent are sincere in their desire to benefit the destitute, the needy, and the vicious, let them first remove all suspicion of proselytism from their charities by appointing proper persons to administer them.
Perhaps there may be too much of a spirit of proselytism in some of them; but, at any rate, there is a sincere desire to make men better.
In an introduction, headed "The Protestants in Italy", Father Perrone laments the great mischief they have done to his country, and at the same time expresses his hopes that their attempts at proselytism will end in failure.
They prescribe for certain cases of such a proselytism corporal chastisement, the knout, and transportation to Siberia.
Greeks united with Rome, as well as the systematical proselytism by force and fraud amongst the Protestants of the Baltic provinces.
And once the legal obstacles to proselytism were removed, the way would be open for a more glorious advance than they had yet seen.
The first breath of the Mohammedan Revival, however, blew the smouldering embers of proselytism into a new flame, and everywhere except in Europe Islam began once more advancing portentously along all its far-flung frontiers.
In the ardour of proselytism and of the diffusion of the new creed, they hailed the historical transformation of the earthly endeavour after temporal acquisitions and pleasures into a providential preparation for the heavenly kingdom.
In the philanthropic department more particularly, the two provinces chiefly cultivated by women are religious proselytism and charity.
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