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March 21st, 1920.
Received by James Padgett
Washington D.C.
Let me write just a line as I merely desire to say that I have
listened to what the Master has written
and can testify that the love to God and love to our fellow man
are not all that man needs for a basis of his religion. I was when
on Earth a minister and taught the same doctrines that the preacher
of the day taught, (Unitarian) and believed that they were all that man needed,
and died in that belief; but, alas, I discovered after many years
of darkness, and of happiness in my natural love that they would
not furnish a basis for my progress to the Celestial Heavens - to
the condition of the soul transformed by the Divine Love. I merely
wanted to say this. If agreeable to you I should like to come some
time and detail more at length my experience in learning the basis
of the true religion.
I will say good night.
Your brother in Christ, Dr. Channing.
Dr. William Ellery Channing (April 7, 1780 – October 2,
1842) was the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in
the early nineteenth century and, along with Andrews Norton, one
of Unitarianism's leading theologians. He was known for his articulate
and impassioned sermons and public speeches, and as a prominent
thinker in the liberal theology of the day. Dr. Channing's religion
and thought were among the chief influences on the New England Transcendentalists,
though he never countenanced their views, which he saw as extreme. (Source: Wikipedia)
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