Fifty Notable Years

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Adams John Greenleaf. Fifty Notable Years

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. THE WORLD'S PROGRESS

CHAPTER II. CHRISTIAN UNIVERSALISM

CHAPTER III. UNIVERSALISM IN AMERICA

CHAPTER IV. EARLY ADVOCACY OF UNIVERSALISM IN AMERICA

CHAPTER V. GROWTH

CHAPTER VI. UNIVERSALISM. – UNITARIANISM. – RATIONALISM

CHAPTER VII. REFORM MOVEMENTS AND UNIVERSALISM

CHAPTER VIII. NEW ENGLAND ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY. – UNIVERSALIST PROTEST

CHAPTER IX. REFORMATORY PROGRESS

CHAPTER X. THE UNIVERSALIST CHURCH AND ITS WOMEN

CHAPTER XI. SKETCHES OF MINISTERS

CHAPTER XII. SKETCHES OF MINISTERS —continued

CHAPTER XIII. SKETCHES OF MINISTERS —continued

CHAPTER XIV. SKETCHES OF MINISTERS —continued

CHAPTER XV. SKETCHES OF MINISTERS —continued

CHAPTER XVI. SKETCHES OF MINISTERS —continued

CHAPTER XVII. SKETCHES OF MINISTERS —continued

CHAPTER XVIII. SKETCHES OF MINISTERS —continued

CHAPTER XIX. SKETCHES OF MINISTERS. —continued

CHAPTER XX. EDUCATIONAL AIDS

CHAPTER XXI. THE LAITY

CHAPTER XXII. THE PRESENT OUTLOOK

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Every intelligent reader of that expressive line of Longfellow, "Let the dead past bury its dead," understands that if "the dead past" may be buried, as it deserves to be, the living past will be remembered, recorded, celebrated, honored in all time to come. It is well, always, that we have our eyes open to this fact.

Among the many voices heard in the discussions going on in the religious world during the last half-century, has been that of Christian Universalism. It is still speaking more emphatically and widely than ever. A brief and comprehensive notice of its manifestations is surely worthy of consideration at the present time. It is the intent of this volume to keep in sacred remembrance some of the preachers and defenders of the Gospel of God's impartial grace, who in times when it was frowned upon and misrepresented in and out of the churches, had the Christian courage and loyalty to avow and maintain it. They have made the past not "dead," but gloriously alive in their faith and works.

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Wars may be lessened, may be outgrown in human society. There are better ways of settling human disputes than by an appeal to arms. Facts in the history of our own nation prove it. Here are a few of them: —

In 1794, the question of the Northeastern boundary between the United States and the dependencies of Great Britain was settled by arbitration.

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