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id: 11142
author: Tarrant, W. G. (William George)
title: Unitarianism
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  It was but a struggling society at first, not for lack of sympathy with its principle, but because many Unitarians, like Channing, so strongly disliked the notion of forming a new sect that they took little interest in methods of propagandism common to most religious bodies. Unitarian_ parish churches, in the words of a popular Unitarian poet, 'look the whole world in the face, and fear not any man.


id: 33672
author: Martineau, Harriet
title: The Essential Faith of the Universal Church; Deduced from the Sacred Records
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  All worldly ambition, all selfish luxury are utterly incompatible with the faith of the Gospel, which disallows every claim founded on itself to distinctions of rank, to abundance of wealth, to power over the possessions of other men, to the indulgence of earthly desires. We alike feel how pervading, how perpetual is the influence of Gospel principles in ennobling every incident, in hallowing every vicissitude of life; in equalizing human emotions; in animating the sympathies, in vivifying the enjoyments, and blunting the sorrows, of all who adopt those principles in full conviction of the understanding, and in perfect sincerity of heart.


id: 31779
author: Ashley, George T. (George Thomas)
title: From Bondage to Liberty in Religion: A Spiritual Autobiography
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sentence: 1894
flesch: 66
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  That is to say, that in order to save mankind and yet appease the divine wrath, and satisfy the vengeance of an offended God, God sent his son into the world to bear the brunt of his wrath instead of mankind, and tho innocent, to suffer as tho guilty; and finally to die as a malefactor, tho innocent of sin; and because of the dignity and character of the victim and the intensity of his sufferings in both life and death, they were sufficient in both quality and quantity to satisfy the divine vengeance against all mankind; _provided_ man would avail himself of these provisions for his release by accepting by faith the Son of God as his suffering substitute; whereupon, God would forgive the sins of the faithful and _impute_ to them the benefits of the righteousness of Christ. I was taught from infancy that the church of my parents was the one and only true, scriptural and orthodox church on earth, with an unbroken organic succession from Jesus Christ himself down to the present time; that it was the only true exponent of apostolic faith and practice; the only true and lawful custodian of the word of God, and the only authority for the administration of the ordinances of the gospel; that all other organizations claiming to be churches were not churches in fact, but merely religious societies; and that while some of these societies might do some little good in the world, and some of their members might ultimately be saved, they could never reach those sublime heights of glory reserved exclusively for the truly baptized members of the true and only church.


id: 18578
author: Savage, Minot J. (Minot Judson)
title: Our Unitarian Gospel
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  The difference between Jesus and other men, as we hold it, is not a difference in kind: it is a difference in degree. We need to know other men.


id: 41280
author: Clarke, James Freeman
title: Christianity and Modern Thought
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  He lived as naturally in the world of spiritual realities as other men live in the world of physical realities. Let any one, in studying the modern writers of this school, compare the solid, manly, sensible way in which they deal with every thing on the physiological and sensational level, with their manner towards all the convictions and sentiments usually recognized as the supreme lights of our nature; the tone now of forbearing indulgence, now of sickly appreciation, often of hardly concealed contempt, that is heard beneath the interminable conjectural analyses of Moral and Religious affections,--and he will feel the difference between the honor that is paid to truth, and the constrained patience towards what other men revere.


id: 34637
author: Parker, Theodore
title: Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 2 (of 3)
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  The antiquary unrolls his codex, hid for eighteen hundred years in the ashes of Herculaneum, deciphers its fossil wisdom, telling us what great men thought in the bay of Naples, and two thousand years ago. The use of great men is to serve the little men; to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.


id: 34688
author: Parker, Theodore
title: Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3)
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  Such is the crisis in our affairs; such the special issue in the general question between freedom and slavery; such the position of parties and of great men in relation to this question; such the foes to freedom in America. He declared that he was not fit for the office, not acquainted with the political measures of the day, and only consented to be brought from his obscurity, when great men told him he was the only man that could save the Union.


id: 34573
author: Parker, Theodore
title: Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 1 (of 3)
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summary:
  We sometimes say that our institutions, here in America, do not require great men; that we get along better without than with such. There are two classes of great men.


id: 8605
author: Cooke, George Willis
title: Unitarianism in America: A History of its Origin and Development
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  The form of service thus initiated was adopted in many other churches, and slowly had its influence in giving greater beauty and spiritual expressiveness to worship in Unitarian churches. The Salem pastors, Rev. John Higginson and Rev. Nicholas Noyes, addressed a letter to the Brattle Street congregation, in which they criticised the church because it did not consult with other churches in its formation, because it did not make a public profession of repentance on behalf of its members, because baptism was administered on less stringent terms than was customary and too lax admission was given to the sacraments, and because the admission of females to full church activity had a direct tendency to subvert the order and liberty of the churches.


