Octavius Frothingham

thumb|Octavius Frothingham Octavius Frothingham (November 26, 1822 – November 27, 1895) was an American clergyman and author. Quotes The Cradle of the Christ: A Study in Primitive Christianity (1877) New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, online at gutenberg.org The unfashionable faith is the very one to attract worldly people on their first awakening to spiritual sensibility. The show of worldliness is then, to the worldly, particularly offensive. "The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life," delight in abasing themselves before rags and filth, wishing to reach the opposite extreme. The graces of the religious character, humility, meekness, self-accusation, contrition, find in associations with the coarse, the hard, the repulsive, their fittest expression. Hence it was that Judaism, heretofore the faith of the despised, became the faith of the despisers. p. 173 If it be asked why Judaism, then, was not made the religion of the empire, instead of Christianity, which it hated with all the fervor of close relationship, the answer is at hand: Judaism laid no emphasis on its cosmopolitan features, and discouraged belief in the historical fulfilment of its own prophecy. p. 174 External links Category:Biographers from the United States Category:Unitarians from the United States Category:Clergy from the United States Category:Harvard University alumni Category:1822 births Category:1895 deaths Category:People from Boston Category:Abolitionists