“Ours was the first Christian body in America to set forth the new philosophy of Christianity, which conceives of the soul as set in this world, not to be tested by a fixed law, but to find its destiny in a true freedom; which begins and ends in the idea of the sovereignty of love; [...]
“Though there be that are called Gods whether in heaven or in earth as there be gods many and lords many, yet to us there is but one God the Father of whom are all things and we in him. That God is love, good unto all, and his tender mercies are all over [...]
“The gospel is the dynamite of God. And some people don’t like dynamite. They think that a sermon aimed at correcting the evils and social injustices of our common life, and any social action by the Church to right the wrongs of today, is taking religion out of its proper sphere, and is [...]
“[Universalism is] a faith springing out of the moral and spiritual instincts of the human soul, and declaring itself in statements that may be changed and that should be changed as the reason of men follows the ever unfolding truth of God and Christianized conscience grows freshly sensitive to ever nobler ideals of religious living. [...]
“In the afternoon I preached [on] the uses of the communion. . . The administration of the Lord’s supper followed, which was a deeply interesting time. These seasons of communion are the most happy of my life; nothing penetrates more deeply towards the centre of my moral being, or carries me so far out [...]
“If, therefore, the world is to end in 1843, or any subsequent period, we have no evidence for believing that any one has been ‘let into the secret’ as to the precise time; neither is it at all certain that the scriptures used by Mr. Miller and others, to support their visionary theory, have any [...]
“As the telling of those we love the faults we discover in them is a painful as well as an unthankful duty, we must be excused, for the present, after we have named one more fault, the correction of which would do them great honor. Among those commendable things which were named, in approbation [...]
“Ye that are and dare to be Universalists–ye that would be Universalists, but dare not–ye that are Universalists at heart, but outwardly, ye go another way, to be seen of men, (a class innumerable)–ye that are willing to be a Universalist is ye can see the why and the wherefore (a noble class)–come–come–take the ‘Inquirer’–and [...]
“It is probably the fortune or misfortune of all newly organized christian communities, to win to their ranks the most discordant materials, and the most eccentric characters. The nucleus being once formed and put in motion, seems to attract nearly every particle floating in moral space, however unlike itself–if in some one particular, there [...]
“Acknowledging Jesus Christ to be the Head of the Church, and submitting ourselves unto him as such, we do hereby, as before him, agree to meet to worship together on the first day of the week, for the public worship of God, the breaking of bread, the reading of the scriptures, and the preaching of [...]
