Your letter was received a week since, and read with interest. What
you said of our teachings, of course, was light and just. We do not
expect ministers of other denominations to accept our views
altogether, for if so they would _be_ Unitarians. Your view
concerning studying the Bible agrees with mine. Still, it is well
to know the latest view of the Bible, although we cannot accept the
teaching at first. In time the way is made clear to us. Have
mailed to you to-day two more good tracts and our church programme
for this year. After Wednesday will mail to you "Positive Aspects
of Religion," by English leaders. We will agree to let you have any
book at just what it costs us, you paying postage on it....
Theodore Parker's "Discourses Pertaining to Religion" is a good
book for you to read,--usual price, $1.00. But first, "Orthodoxy;
Its Truths and Errors," J. F. Clarke; and a new book just out,
"Orthodoxy and Heresy." ... "Bible for Learners" is by three German
divines, translated by an Englishman, and gives the latest German
views concerning the Bible.
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