Title
Party Spirit: An Address Delivered Before the Literary Societies of Washington College, Washington PA.
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Description
In this address, Nevin defines “party spirit” as “selfishness expanded and strengthened by means of the social principle, under all, and more than all, the forms of corrupt affection, which belong to it in the original man” (p. 5, emphasis in the original). He contends, in the words of the concluding paragraph, that it is “irreconcileably [sic] at war” with “the genius of the gospel,” and encourages his hearers to embrace the gospel’s “lofty, large, and free” spirit, and to avoid the “illiberal passions” and “narrow conceptions of men” (p. 30).
Publication Date
1840
Publisher
Printed at the Office of Publication of the Ger. Ref. Church
City
Chambersburg, PA
Keywords
Appalachia, Pennsylvania, John Williamson Nevin, Presbyterian Church, Reformed Church in the United States, Sermons
Disciplines
Appalachian Studies | Digital Humanities | Other Religion | Rhetoric
Type
article
Recommended Citation
Nevin, John Williamson, "Party Spirit: An Address Delivered Before the Literary Societies of Washington College, Washington PA." (1840). Nevin, John Williamson, 1803-1886. 11.
https://mds.marshall.edu/nevin_johnwilliamson/11
Comments
Marshall does not own this book; the nearest physical copy is at the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio. Like all other books published in the United States in the 19th century, it is in the public domain.