{"id":92842,"date":"2020-05-17T07:35:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T11:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=92842"},"modified":"2020-05-17T07:42:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T11:42:01","slug":"92842","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=92842","title":{"rendered":"Food for Thought from William Ewart Gladstone"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;He was asked if he had observed the singular absence of the sense of sin in the works of American divines of all schools. &#8216; Ah,&#8217; said he slowly, &#8216; the sense of sin \u2014 that is the great want in modern life ; it is wanting in our sermons, wanting everywhere ! &#8216; This was said slowly and reflectively, almost like a monologue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;Lionel Arthur Tollemach, <b>Talks with Mr. Gladstone<\/b> (London: Edward Arnold, 1903), p.96<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Did you know the Library was founded in 1896 by W.E. Gladstone. Born in Liverpool in 1809, Gladstone was the pre-eminent politician of his day, achieving international fame as a politician, statesman, and scholar. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Gladfacts?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Gladfacts<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GladstonesLibrary?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GladstonesLibrary<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Libraries?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Libraries<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Glimpse?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Glimpse<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DIzaHYMceH\">pic.twitter.com\/DIzaHYMceH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gladstone&#8217;s Library (@gladlib) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gladlib\/status\/1250001044999942146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;He was asked if he had observed the singular absence of the sense of sin in the works of American divines of all schools. &#8216; Ah,&#8217; said he slowly, &#8216; the sense of sin \u2014 that is the great want<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=92842\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92842"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92849,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92842\/revisions\/92849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}