[Life of Father Hecker by Walter Elliott]@TWC D-Link bookLife of Father Hecker CHAPTER III 14/29
Yet even so he had not deliberately turned his back upon Him, though his tendency at this time was doubtless toward simple Theism.
He had begun to ignore Christianity, simply because his own problems were dominantly social, and orthodox Protestantism, the only form of religion which he knew, had no social force corresponding to its pretensions and demands. Now, upon this state of mind the teaching of Dr.Brownson came like seed upon a fallow soil.
Like that which preceded it, it erred rather by defect than by actual or, at any rate, by wilful deviation from true doctrine.
Isaac Hecker met for the first time in Orestes Brownson an exponent of Jesus Christ as the great Benefactor and Uplifter of the human race in this present life.
Dr.Brownson has himself given a statement of the views which he held and inculcated between 1834 and 1843--which includes the period we are at present considering--and it is so brief and to the point that we cannot do better than to quote it: "I found in me," he writes (_The Convert,_p.
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