Moral Uprising Quotes
Originally it was published in Boston under the name “A Columbian Patriot.”
Wycliffe had come down with a serious illness and appeared to be dying. The friars gathered at his bedside assuming that he would repent his attacks on the church, the friars and the Pope with his last rites. Instead, he pronounced this famous line. The churchmen left in disgust waiting for him to die. But he did not and vexed the established church and its representatives for a few more years. Wycliffe was castigated and had his books burned for his attacks on priests and bishops. A thousand years earlier another man was canonized as a Saint for similar attacks. See {618186}
The public had been roused by the meatpacking scandal and the other exposes of the leading muckraking journalists—of which Baker was one. President Roosevelt had galvanized and led the public opinion to pressure congress and major great reforms were under way that would change America forever—see New York Times editorial {86516}.
There are few countries and times where serious complaints were not made about the moral degeneration of the times and the danger to children. This example is from England in the early 20th century.
Rev. Falwell was so struck with the “moral majority” phrase that it became the name of their organization.
