Heralds of a Liberal Faith: The pioneersAmerican Unitarian Association, 1910 - Unitarian churches |
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Page 135 - Another fit of epilepsy. I pray God, that I may be prepared, not so much for death, as for the loss of health, and, perhaps, of mental faculties. The repetition of these fits must, at length, reduce me to idiocy. Can I resign myself to the loss of memory, and of that knowledge, I may have vainly prided myself upon...
Page 229 - These facts have always suggested to man the sublime creed that the world is not the product of manifold power, but of one will, of one mind ; and that one mind is everywhere active, in each ray of the star, in each wavelet of the pool; and whatever opposes that will, is everywhere balked and baffled, because things are made so, and not otherwise.
Page 177 - The rough farmers had their hands at their eyes repeatedly. But the old hardened sinners, the arid, educated men, ministers and others, were dry as stones.
Page 41 - College, and in 1820 a member of the convention for the revision of the State Constitution. In this able and dignified body he held a conspicuous rank.
Page 99 - Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
Page 120 - I verged towards Calvinism, for ill health and depression gave me a dark view of things. But the doctrine of the Trinity held me back. When I was studying my profession, and religion was the subject of deepest personal concern with me, I followed Doddridge through his ' Rise and Progress ' till he brought me to a prayer to Jesus Christ.
Page 147 - It unites sterling sense, sound and various scholarship, precision of thought, the utmost elegance of style, without pomp or laborious ornament, with a fervor and depth of feeling truly evangelical. These qualities, of course, are preserved in the printed text of the oration. But the indescribable charm of his personal appearance and manner, — the look, the voice, the gesture and attitude, the unstudied outward expression of the inward feeling, — of these no idea can be formed by those who never...
Page 20 - Bancroft began to doubt the soundness of the doctrinal teachings under which he had been brought up. He writes, " the Westminster Assembly's Shorter Catechism was early taught me. While young, I was, by my father, appointed reader to the family on Saturday evenings, and Willard's Body of Divinity, a large folio, was selected as my book. The Catechism I never understood or loved ; — my mind revolted against Willard. I could not assent to the popular creed, and I well remember the throes of my youthful...
Page 136 - God ! enable me to bear this thought, and make it familiar to my mind, that, by thy grace, I may be willing to endure life as long as thou pleasest to lengthen it. It is not enough to be willing to leave the world when God pleases ; we should be willing even to live useless in it, if he, in his Holy Providence, should send such a calamity upon us. I think I perceive my memory fails me. O God, save me from that hour...
Page 23 - I thank you for your kind letter of Dec. 30th, and above all for the gift of a precious volume. It is a chain of diamonds set in links of gold. I have never read nor heard read a volume of sermons better calculated and adapted to the age and country in which it was written.