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A Dictionary and Alphabetical Index to the Bible.

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ART. XXVI. THE RELATION OF MYTHS TO SCIENCE AND RE-

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Childhood and Youth.- Led towards the Ministry.- Enters the Ministry. -The Salem Pastorate-The Essex Ministerial Circle.- The Pastorate at South Dedham.- The Universalist Movement.- First Efforts to Found a Theological School. The Theological School Established. -The Call to Canton.- Dark Days.- A Crisis.- The War Crisis.Minor Crises.- Within the School. Without the School. Within the Home. Friends of the Institution.-Closing Years.- "Last of Earth." - Tributes.- Analysis of Character.

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ARTICLE XXI.

Universalist Conventions and Creeds.

CLOSING PAPER.

DENOMINATIONAL POLITY.

AT the session of the General Convention at Baltimore, in 1844, Rev. T. J. Sawyer, who was appointed in 1843 “to draft a plan of Organization," presented a lengthy and able Report, in which, after setting in clear light the imperfections and difficulties of the existing forms of government in the denomination, he outlined the duties, powers and jurisdiction of Societies, Associations, State Conventions and the General Convention; and urged the importance of immediate action on the part of these organizations to the end that the denomination might be both a unit and a power. At present, he argued that these different organizations, seemingly so regularly graded from the smallest to the largest and most important body, were mere names, having in reality no gradation whatever in rank and influence. For, he said:

"The moment we inquire into the more important relations of these bodies, into their respective powers and limitations, we shall be surprised at the chaotic state in which they are found. We shall observe that there is little or no uniformity of action; that there is no bond of union between especially the State Conventions; no court of appeal for them, and indeed, no power to regulate their intercourse, or make the acts of one body respected by another, and finally, no authority to determine many points of practice of universal concernment and of vital interest to the denomination.

"To account for this anomalous state it is only necessary to remind you that this body, professedly the highest, and the most comprehensive, has actually the least power of any, or more properly, no power at all. It avowedly disclaims, by a specific article of its Constitution, all power whatever, and satisfies itself with the privilege which the humblest individual in the denomination enjoys, the privilege of giving advice! I admire the modesty which this disclaimer implies, but I can

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