The Life of William Ellery Channing, D.D.American Unitarian Association, 1880 - 719 pages |
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Abolitionism Abolitionists affection awaken beauty believe benevolence blessings Boston called Channing Channing's character charity Christian church consider conviction delight desire Divine doctrines duty earnest earth evil exalted exertion express faith Faneuil Hall Father fear feel felt freedom give glory God's gospel habits happiness heart heaven holy honor hope human nature important improvement infinite influence intellectual interest Jesus Christ Joanna Baillie Joseph Tuckerman labor letter Liberal Christians ligion live look mankind means ment mind minister ministry moral nations ness never Newport Noah Worcester object opinions ourselves passions peace peculiar perfect piety pleasure preaching present principles received relation religion religious Scriptures seems sentiments sermon sincere slavery social society soul spirit sublime suffering sympathy thought tion Trinitarians true truth Unitarians universal views virtue Washington Allston whilst whole WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING wish word
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Page 66 - My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music : it is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word ; which madness Would gambol from.
Page 503 - Universalists believe in a god which I do not ; but believe that their god, with all his moral attributes, (aside from nature itself) is nothing more than a chimera of their own imagination.
Page 128 - It yearns me not if men my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.
Page 286 - ... by appeals to reason and by its liberal examples to infuse into the law which governs the civilized world a spirit which may diminish the frequency or circumscribe the. calamities of war, and meliorate the social and beneficent relations of peace; a Government, in. a word, whose conduct within and without may bespeak the most noble of all ambitions — that of promoting peace on earth and good will to man.
Page 266 - I was hungry and ye gave me no meat, thirsty and ye gave me no drink, naked and ye clothed me not, a stranger and ye took me not in, sick and in prison and ye visited me not.
Page 194 - If once we forsake this guide, to whom shall we attach ourselves ? If once we choose to rest on human authority, whom shall we select as our teacher out of the multitude who wish to number us among their proselytes? What pledge have we that we shall not throw ourselves into the arms of the most deluded ? Let us, then, stand fast in the liberty with which Christ has made us free.
Page 47 - No right is so inseparable from humanity, and so necessary to the improvement of our species, as the right of exerting the powers which nature has given us in the pursuit of any and of every good which we can obtain without doing injury to others. Should you desire it, I will give you some idea of the situation and character of the negroes in Virginia. It is a subject so degrading to humanity, that I cannot dwell on it with pleasure. I should be obliged to show you every vice, heightened by every...
Page 228 - ... same in nature with that which constitutes the glory of God. In particular, that disinterested love, that diffusive benevolence, to which Jesus Christ so emphatically calls us, forms the highest glory of the Divine character. The language of John on this subject is remarkable. " God is love, and he that dwells in love dwells in God.
Page 387 - If a man love me, my Father will love him, and we will come unto him and make our abode with him "; for the fact is illustrated before our eyes.
Page 562 - I hope I shall be permitted to express my surprise at the sentiments of the last speaker, — surprise not only at such sentiments from such a man, but at the applause they have received within these walls. A comparison has been drawn between the events of the Revolution and the tragedy at Alton. We have heard it asserted here, in Faneuil Hall, that Great Britain had a right to tax the Colonies, and we have heard the mob at Alton, the drunken murderers of Lovejoy, compared...