Antedating of "Muscular Christianity"

[Fred Shapiro]

muscular Christianity (OED3 1857)

1853 _National Magazine_ June 550 ff. (American Periodical Series)  Among
the common working people, the modern preacher will find some stern
principles, stout prejudices, pithy sayings, large capacities of action,
some fine specimens of muscular Christianity.

Fred Shapiro


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