Archive for the 'Universalist professions of faith' Category

Reader’s question: Where to get the 1941 prayerbook?

Monday, April 21st, 2008

A reader asked where he might get a copy of the 1941 Universalist prayerbook. This is how I replied:

The 1941 (and lesser known 1943 Harrisville, R.I. prayerbook) were simply abridgments of the 1894 servicebook, with the 1935 Washington Avowal in place — in the appendix — of the Winchester Profession and a new introduction by […]

Confessions of Faith from “Life Hymnal” (1904)

Monday, June 4th, 2007

I read two very interesting faith statements — I dare not call them anything else; they had no formal denominational standing — and have typed them below. These are prescribed in one of the Sunday school services in The Life Hymnal: A Book of Song and Service for the Sunday School by Stanford Mitchell and […]

Return of the Google Universalist library (or “I’m a kid in a candy store”)

Monday, June 4th, 2007

Google and its partner libraries must be scanning up a storm. After adding some titles yesterday, I found a bunch more, even better than the first batch (and including an early edition of the 1894 Book of Prayer which I hope to republish in a more handy PDF format).

Links to all below the fold.