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title: 'Faith, Reverence and Freedom: A Baccalaureate Address to the Graduating Class in Marshall College, Sept. 12, 1849'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
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authors:
- 'John Williamson Nevin'
date: 1850-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Personal Piety'
- 'Revelation (General and Special Revelation)'
- 'Deity, and Person and Work of Christ'
scriptures:
- 'John 1'
- 'Genesis 28'
- 'Psalms 1'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/nevin-1850-faith-reverence-and-freedom-a-baccalaureate-address-to-the-graduating-class-in-marshall-college-sept-12-1849
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# Faith, Reverence and Freedom: A Baccalaureate Address to the Graduating Class in Marshall College, Sept. 12, 1849

Baccalaureate address urging graduates to cultivate faith, reverence, and freedom. Faith unites the soul to the spiritual world, centers on Christ (incarnation), and sustains virtue amid doubt.

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