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"Have we not the right to our own views, and own interpretations, and own creeds, and own Truths equal to those that proceeded us? Must we forever wear the cast-off garments of past ages?"
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Benjamin Fish AustinI do not believe in infallible men, nor in an infallible church, nor i — Benjamin Fish Austin
"I do not believe in infallible men, nor in an infallible church, nor in an infallible book"
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Benjamin Fish Austin
Benjamin Fish Austin
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Benjamin Fish Austin was a Canadian educator, author, Methodist minister, and spiritualist. He served as the principal of Alma College girls' school from 1881 to 1897 during which time that institution was regarded as one of the most prestigious centres of female education in Canada. Austin served the Methodist Church for many years as an educator and minister but was expelled from that organisati
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"Christ has recognised and declared womans equality with man"
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"It is a mistaken notion that all spiritual truth was given to the world in one complete system nearly 2000 years ago."
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"New truths in science are often condemned and 25 years ago it was very common and very popular for preachers to sneer at the evolution theory, but to-day it is no longer sneered at, for there is arising in all intelligent minds who have candidly examined the evidence the conviction that this was the method of creation, and no scientist of note to-day denies it."
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"We know as well as history can teach us that all religions are one and the same- all the outgrowth of mans moral nature, differing only according to the intelligence and advancement of the people among whom they originated"
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"To know the Truth, to love the Truth, and to live the Truth is the whole duty of man."
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