omise a revolution of the
popular religious sentiment in Great Britain and the American Republic.
Orthodoxy is unhesitatingly pronounced a public curse. In reply, we
would request our skeptical opponents to remember the historical record
of their principles, as seen in the social convulsions of Germany, in
the immorality and revolutions of France, and in the religious
indifference and prostration of England in the eighteenth century. We
would remind them, further, that orthodox theology has here been in the
ascendant, and that in no land are public morals purer, the laws more
just, humanitarian enterprises better supported, material interests more
progressive, or education better fostered than in the United States. The
American Church laments that her faith has not been stronger and her
zeal more fervent, but her history, with all its dark pages of
hesitation and inefficiency, is the answer which she returns to the
accusations of her Rationalistic opponents. Meanwhile, she proposes to
continue her labor for human salvation, by the promulgation of her
present system of theology, nor will she consider her mission
accomplished until the gospel of Christ has been preached to every
creature.

FOOTNOTES:

[232] Smith, _History of the Church of Christ in Chronological Tables_,
p. 74.

[233] _The Reason of Church Government against Prelacy._ Ch. II.

[234] _History of the Church of Christ, &c._, p. 74.

[235] Baird, _Religion in America_, pp. 547-562.

[236] _Unitarianism in its Actual Condition._ Edited by Rey. J. R.
Beard, D. D. pp. 1-4. London, 1846.

[237] Sprague, _Annals of the American Unitarian Pulpit_. _Historical
Introduction_, p. xii.

[238] Appleton's _American Cyclopaedia_. Art. _Wm. Ellery Channing_. W.
L. Symonds, Esq., is the author of this biography.

[239] _Works_, _Introductory Remarks_, p. viii.

[240] Ibid. p. vi.

[241] _Works_, _Introductory Remarks_, pp. xviii-xix.

[242] Ellis, _Half Century of Unitarianism_, p. 34.

[243] These words refer to the great Revival in the winter of 1857-58.

[244] Bellows, _Restatements of Christian Doctrine_, p. 164-165.

[245] _Controversial Sermons_, No. 1.

[246] Orr, _Unitarianism in the Present Time_, pp. 54, 58, 59.

[247] Farley, _Unitarianism Defined_, p. 24.

[248] Farley, _Unitarianism Defined_, p. 26.

[249] Ibid. pp. 122, 123, 136.

[250] Ibid. pp. 156, 157.

[251] Will the Reverend author be kind enough to inform the public of
the