William Henry Channing

Proceedings of the Free Religious Association’s third annual meeting, held in Boston on May 26–27, 1870. The volume includes annual reports, the sessions at Tremont Temple, an essay by Samuel Johnson, addresses and remarks by other participants, and the association’s constitution.

Contributors include Octavius B. Frothingham, David Atwood Wasson, Ednah D. Cheney, Francis Ellingwood Abbot, Lucretia Mott, Isaac M. Wise, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Henry Channing, and William J. Potter. Navigation follows the original contents, including separately listed remarks that share a printed page.

Copy note: the scan includes repeated or misordered leaves near printed pages 116–117. The constitution, listed at printed page 122, appears at scan page 124. Full leaf-by-leaf continuity has not been certified.

Source: Internet Archive scan G5173.

The Works of William E. Channing, D.D. gathers the major theological, philosophical, literary, and social writings of William Ellery Channing (1780–1842), a formative figure in American Unitarianism. This 1899 American Unitarian Association printing is the New and Complete Edition, Rearranged, with The Perfect Life added. The volume ranges from religious freedom, self-culture, Unitarian theology, creeds and church life to education, poverty, peace, slavery, emancipation, literature, and social reform.

Contents

• Introductory Remarks — p. 1
• Self-Culture — p. 12
• On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes — p. 36
• Honor Due to All Men — p. 67
• Ministry for the Poor — p. 73
• On Preaching the Gospel to the Poor — p. 88
• Charge for the Ordination of Robert C. Waterston — p. 93
• Address on Temperance — p. 99
• Remarks on Education — p. 116
• Remarks on National Literature — p. 124
• Remarks on Associations — p. 138
• The Present Age — p. 159
• Spiritual Freedom — p. 172
• Importance of Religion to Society — p. 187
• Evidences of Christianity, Part I — p. 188
• Evidences of Christianity, Part II — p. 204
• The Evidences of Revealed Religion — p. 220
• Christianity a Rational Religion — p. 233
• The Great Purpose of Christianity — p. 246
• Means of Promoting Christianity — p. 254
• The Christian Ministry — p. 257
• The Demands of the Age on the Ministry — p. 269
• Theological Education — p. 279
• Charge at the Ordination of the Rev. John Sullivan Dwight — p. 283
• Likeness to God — p. 291
• Character of Christ — p. 302
• The Imitableness of Christ's Character — p. 310
• Love to Christ, First Discourse — p. 316
• Love to Christ, Second Discourse — p. 322
• Preaching Christ — p. 328
• Self-Denial, First Discourse — p. 336
• Self-Denial, Second Discourse — p. 343
• The Evil of Sin — p. 347
• Immortality — p. 354
• The Future Life — p. 359
• Unitarian Christianity — p. 367
• Unitarian Christianity Most Favorable to Piety — p. 384
• Objections to Unitarian Christianity Considered — p. 401
• Christian Worship — p. 408
• The Church — p. 428
• The Sunday School — p. 447
• The Moral Argument against Calvinism — p. 459
• Letter on Catholicism — p. 468
• The System of Exclusion and Denunciation in Religion — p. 478
• Extracts from a Letter on Creeds — p. 486
• The Duties of Children — p. 489
• Daily Prayer — p. 493
• Remarks on the Character and Writings of John Milton — p. 498
• Remarks on the Life and Character of Napoleon Bonaparte — p. 522
• Remarks on the Character and Writings of Fénelon — p. 559
• A Discourse on the Life and Character of the Rev. Joseph Tuckerman, D.D. — p. 578
• The Philanthropist: A Tribute to the Memory of the Rev. Noah Worcester, D.D. — p. 599
• A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of the Rev. Dr. Follen — p. 607
• Memoir of John Gallison, Esq. — p. 618
• Notice of the Rev. S. C. Thacher — p. 625
• The Union — p. 629
• War: Discourse before the Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts — p. 642
• War: Discourse Delivered Jan. 25, 1835 — p. 654
• Lecture on War — p. 664
• Duties of the Citizen in Times of Trial or Danger — p. 679
• Slavery — p. 688
• The Abolitionists: A Letter to James G. Birney — p. 743
• A Letter to the Hon. Henry Clay, on the Annexation of Texas to the United States — p. 752
• Remarks on the Slavery Question, in a Letter to Jonathan Phillips, Esq. — p. 782
• Emancipation — p. 820
• The Duty of the Free States; or, Remarks Suggested by the Case of the “Creole,” Part I — p. 853
• The Duty of the Free States; or, Remarks Suggested by the Case of the “Creole,” Part II — p. 871
• An Address Delivered at Lenox on the First of August, 1842 — p. 907

The Perfect Life

• Title and Character of This Book — p. 927
• I. The Religious Principle in Human Nature — p. 931
• II. God Revealed in the Universe and in Humanity — p. 938
• III. The Universal Father — p. 947
• IV. The Father's Love for Persons — p. 954
• V. Trust in the Living God — p. 960
• VI. Life a Divine Gift — p. 966
• VII. The True End of Life — p. 975
• VIII. The Perfecting Power of Religion — p. 984
• IX. Jesus Christ the Brother, Friend, and Saviour — p. 992
• X. The Essence of the Christian Religion — p. 1000
• XI. Perfect Life the End of Christianity — p. 1006
• XII. The Church Universal — p. 1012
• Index — p. 1021