Unitarianism in America: A History of its Origin and DevelopmentCooke, George Willis
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Unitarianism in America: A History of its Origin and Development
Cooke, George Willis
Unitarianism -- United States
[10] The views of Bartol and Judd are appropriate to a state church,
wherein they first found expression; and their motive is always
distinctly social.
[11] Life of J.F. Clarke, by E.E. Hale, 145
[12] Memoir of Samuel Longfellow, by Joseph May, 193.
[13] Miss Scudder's best hymns were all written while she was a Unitarian.
Unitarian hymnology has been nobly treated by Dr. Alfred P. Putnam,
in his Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith, Boston, 1875. It is
understood that he is preparing a second volume. The tendency to a
deeper recognition of the spirit of worship has found fitting
expression in The Spiritual Life: Studies of Devotion and Worship,
George H. Ellis, 1898.
[14] The addresses and papers of this meeting were published under the
title of Liberal Religious Thought at the Beginning of the Twentieth
Century, London, 1901. They give the most complete account yet
published of the various liberal movements in many parts of the
world, and the book is one of great interest and value.
[15] From the first circular of the International Council.
X.
THE MINISTRY AT LARGE.
One of the most important of the philanthropies undertaken by the early
Unitarians was the ministry to the poor and unchurched in Boston, usually
known as the ministry at large. It began in 1822, came under the direction
of the American Unitarian Association and the shaping hand of Dr. Joseph
Tuckerman in 1826, and was taken in charge by the Benevolent Fraternity of
Churches in 1834. It was not begun by Tuckerman, though its origin is
usually attributed to him. Even before 1822 attempts had been made to
establish missions amongst the poor by the evangelical denominations; but
their work was not thoroughly organized, and it had reached no efficient
results when Tuckerman entered upon his labors. The work of Tuckerman was
to take up what had been tentatively begun by others, give it a definite
purpose and method, and so to inform it with his own genius for charity
that it became a great philanthropy in its intent and in its methods.
[Sidenote: Association of Young Men.]
When the Hancock Grammar School-house in the north end of Boston was being
erected, a young man, in passing it on a September evening, said to a
companion, "Why cannot we have a Sunday-school here?" The proposition was
received with favor, and the two discussed plans while they continued their
walk. They met frequently to mature their methods of procedure, and they
invited others to join them in the undertaking. On the evening of October
2, 1822, these two young men--Frederick T. Gray and Benjamin H. Greene--met
with Moses Grant, William P. Rice, and others, to give more careful
consideration to their purpose of forming a society for mutual religious
improvement.[1]
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