Suggestions for a Church of Unity, Embodying a Review of the Distinguishing Doctrines and Practices of the Church of Rome and the Society of Friends, by a Layman [T.C. Brown]. - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862. Excerpt: ... 90 CHAPTER XVII. CONCLUSION. It may be contended that the proposed scheme is Utopian, a do-nothing system, and that under it mankind would fall into a state of indifference, the stimuli arising from sectional differences in doctrines and forms being withdrawn. But it must not be supposed, because we require no assent to any thing but the primary creed, we consider nothing necessary to be done to help man in religion. We have not attempted to define the mode by which public worship should be conducted, but it must include the reading of the Scriptures, prayer, praise, thanksgiving, and psalmody, as the means of uniting all assembled in divine worship. Then might follow teaching, which would include the expounding of the Scriptures, natural theology, and moral and religious discourses, by good, learned, and scientific men, desirous of labouring in God's vineyard; readers, as they would be literally, if all contributions were written, not extemporaneous (to which there are many objections). These readers would be laymen, unpaid, without the least spiritual authority; reading the sermons of others, or their own, whether the composition of man or woman, the inspiration of the pen, the fruits of human wisdom guided by divine wisdom. Besides this, a great means of reformation would be a more enlarged and perfect system of education and training youth, which is now so much behind what it ought to ba, because a national education is impracticable under the divisions which now exist on religion. If there were a church of unity, letters, art, science, and morals might all be taught. Intellectual and physical instruction, properly carried out, would elevate the people, and restrain low habits and sensual pleasures, which now keep down the moral and intellectual facul...
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