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    • Before, -1902
      • Early Genealogy of the Davis Family
      • Sermons, -1902
        • The Church as a Social Institution, 1901
    • Harvard, 1902-1904
      • Sermons, 1902-1904
        • The Motive Power of Vision, 1903
        • Feed the Whole Man, 1903
        • The Renewal of the Spirit, No Date, probably 1903
        • Labor and Brotherly Love, 1903
        • Education the Means; Religion the Dynamic, 1904
        • Sympathy, 1904
        • The Roots of Victory, 1904
        • The Modern Pioneer, 1904
        • Man’s Responsibility, 1904
        • Simple Religion, No Date
        • Authority in Religious Life, No Date
        • Action and Reaction, No Date
        • Some Helps by the Way, No Date
        • From Confusion Unto Faith, No Date
        • Not Alms, But a Friend, No Date
        • Community of Purpose, No Date
        • The World of Fancy, No Date
    • Pittsfield, Unity Church, 1905-1919
      • Sermons, 1905-1919
        • A Plea for the Principle of a Creedless Church, 1905
        • Growth and Salvation, No Date
        • The Richness of the Religious Life, No Date
        • Obedience to the Will of God, No Date
        • Abraham Lincoln and the Needs of the Times, 1906
        • String-bound Collection of 1906 Sermons
          • Broken Ideals and Discouraged Worshippers, 1906
          • The Relation of Religion to Health, 1906
          • The Finality of Christianity, 1906
          • Take Time to Live, 1906
          • Choosing the Noble Life, 1906
          • The Rejected Corner Stone, 1906
          • From Smoke to Pen, 1906
          • Jesus, The Lover of Human Nature, 1906
          • Temptation, 1906
        • The Missionary Spirit, 1906
        • The Place of the Church in the Life of the Individual and in Society, 1908
        • Fall 1908 Sermons
        • Robert Louis Stevenson, The Man of an Understanding Heart, 1909
        • Good Will Among Men, Is it a Fact or a Theory? [Incomplete], 1909
        • That Man May Live, 1909
        • The New Era, 1914
        • The Democratization of Industry, 1918
        • The Great Tradition Becomes The Great Faith, 1918
        • Peace Service Sermon: A Dynamic Peace, 1918
        • Channing, The Apostle of Liberty, 1919
        • Behold: A Man, No Date
        • The Thirst for a Living God
        • The Ethical Significance of the Changing Social Order in its Bearing on the Institution of Government
        • The Ethical Significance of the Changing Social Order in its Bearing on the Institution of Education
        • What is the Nature of Worship and Will it Have a Place in the Coming Age?
        • Sermon: Can the Christian Churches Adjust Themselves to the Coming Age?
        • Reformation Without Tarrying for Any
        • What Think Ye of Man? No Date
        • What is Christianity? The Letter Killeth but the Spirit Giveth Power, No Date
        • Why Does One Go To Church?
        • The Compelling Power of the Christ Like Life, Sermon Notes, No Date
        • The Hope for a New Age, Sermon Notes, No Date
        • Sermon on Labor, No Date
      • History Manuscripts
        • Origins of Modern Religion, Modern Charity and Modern Labor Problems
          • Lecture One, Freehand Charity of the 14th Century, 1905
          • Lecture Two, [Late Medieval Period, Frederick II, John Wyclif]
          • [Lecture Three:] The Peasants Revolt, [Late Medieval Period 2, 1350-1381]
          • [Lecture Four:] Charity, A Degrading Influence of the 18th Century, [18th Century]
          • What Authority has Experience Over a Man’s Religious Life? [Early Modern Period, Methodism, George Whitefield, John and Charles Wesley]
          • [Lecture Six:] The Iron Law of Wages, The Poor Man Pushed to the Wall, [Early Modern Period, Late 1700s]
          • [Lecture Seven:] The Beginnings of Modern Charity, [19th Century]
          • [Lecture Eight:] The Place of Charity in a Democratic Community, 1905
        • Rise and Development of the Congregational Polity and Spirit
          • Lecture I: The Church at Scrooby
          • Lecture II. Earliest Traces of Congregational Churches
          • Lecture III: Brief Definition of Certain Terms Used in the History of Free Churches
          • Lecture IV: The Pilgrim Church in Holland
          • Lecture V: The Pilgrim Church at Plymouth
          • Lecture VI: The Puritan-Pilgrim Church
          • Lecture VII: The Forces Without the Theocracy
          • Lecture VIII: John Murray and the Beginning of the Universalist Movement
          • Lecture IX: Thomas Paine and Theology Without the Church
          • Lecture X: Henry Ware and Harvard University
        • Biographical Sketches of Important 17th and 18th century New England Congregational Preachers
          • Cotton Mather [1663-1728], No Date
          • John Wise [1652-1725], No Date
          • Charles Chauncy [1705-1787], No Date
          • Charles Chauncy [1705-1787], Continued, No Date
          • Jonathan Edwards [1703-1758], No Date
          • Samuel Hopkins [1721-1803], No Date
          • Nathanael Emmons [1745-1850], No Date
      • Publications, 1905-1919
        • Socialism: A Reply, 1910
        • The Influence of Democracy on Religious Thought and Practice, 1913
      • Manuscripts, 1905-1919
        • Religion in a Democracy, 1906
        • Address at the Lincoln Celebration Held Under the Auspices of the Colored M.E. Church, 1908
        • Lincoln Steffens to Speak at Colonial Theatre, 1908
        • Record [of Experience of Psychic Phenomenon], 1908
        • Four-twine-bound Collection of Manuscripts, 1909-1911
          • The Significance of Count Tolstoi, 1909
          • Address Given at the Presentation of Diplomas to Members of the Graduating Classes of Grammar Schools in Pittsfield, 1911
          • Edgar Allen Poe, 1909
          • The Social Ideal of the Modern World, 1910
          • Robert Louis Stevenson, the Writer and the Man, 1909
          • The Churches and Socialism, 1910
          • Churches for Truth and Justice, 1910
          • The Work of a Church Today, 1910
          • The Social Unrest, 1908
          • The Class Struggle, 1910
          • What about City Government, Pipe and Pen Club, 1910
          • Marriage and Divorce, 1910
        • Robert Burns: The Poet of Common Life, 1912
        • Count Leo Tolstoy: A Tragedy of the Times, undated
        • The Court Jester to King Bourgeois, 1913
        • Review of “The Introduction of Androcles and the Lion” by G. B. Shaw, No Date
        • The Other End of a Shad Dinner, 1916
        • 1918 Four-brad Bundle of Manuscripts
          • Five Months at Camp Devens, 1918
          • Review of God of the New Age by Eugene W. Lyman, 1918
          • Religion, In Life and In Reality, 1918
          • Democracy and Socialism, 1918
          • Liberty and Responsibility in Religion, 1918
        • The Strike of the General Electric Company Employees, 1919
        • Letter to the Pittsfield Eagle Comparing the French Revolution with the Russian Revolution, April 8, 1919
        • The Ethical Aspect of Socialism, No Date
        • Industrial Cooperation, No Date
        • Permanent Characteristics of Liberal Religion, No Date
        • The Relation of Public Schools to Life, No Date
    • Lancaster, Church of Our Father, 1919-1924
      • Sermons, 1919-1924
        • Thanksgiving, Then and Now, 1920
        • An American Sunday, 1921
        • Music in Religion, Sermon Notes and Preparatory Notes, October 21, 1921
        • Questionnaire Responses, “Young People: Why go to Church?” collected in preparation for a sermon on February 5, 1922
        • The Power of Understanding: Not Illusion but Truth is Divinity, 1922
        • Two Sermons for October 15, 1922: Morning Service, “The Mind in the Making;” Evening Service, “The Golden Rule in Religion”
        • The Well Fed Mind, 1922
        • The Essential Christ, 1922
        • The Need For A Spirit of Broad Fellowship. What shall we do with the Heretics? 1923
        • Did Christ Have the Power of God, 1923
        • The Land of Promise, 1923
        • Will a Belief in Immortality Survive? No Date
        • The Fact of God in Human Experience, No Date
        • Is Protestantism in the Midst of a Revolution? No Date
      • Publications, 1919-1924
        • True Meaning of “the Coming Crisis,” 1920
      • Manuscripts, 1919-1924
        • Letter Exchange between C. E. Haupt and E. C. Davis, January, 1920
        • Remarks at Unveiling of the Frieze of the Prophets, 1920
        • Letter to the Editor of the Lancaster Public Ledger, 1920
        • Review of The Behavior of Crowds by Everett Dean Martin, 1920
        • Speech by James H. Maurer, “The Open Shop?” and Maurer’s correspondence with Earl Davis ahead of a meeting on March 9, 1921
        • Research in Preparation for the Unveiling of a Reproduction of Da Vinci’s Last Supper, March 21, 1921
        • The Dilemma Of the Minister, 1921
        • Notes on The Mirrors of Downing Street by Gentleman with a Duster, 1921
        • Notes on The Glass of Fashion by Gentleman with a Duster, 1922
        • The Great Relay Race, Notes on an Address to the Students at the YMCA F+M Academy, October 20, 1922
        • Notes on “The Renaissance of Prayer” by Samuel McComb, November, 1922
        • Notes on Silhouettes of my Contemporaries by Lyman Abbott, 1922.
        • Mennonites: Notes for Talk Given at Wilmington, Delaware, March 1, 1923
        • The Lost Stream of Frankness and Freedom, 1923
    • Concord, Unitarian Church, 1924-1933
      • Sermons, 1924-1933
        • Life Has Meaning, 1923
        • The Search for Life, 1923
        • The Great Experiment in Religion: A Church Without a Creed, 1925
        • Into the Great Silences, 1925
      • Publications, 1924-1933
      • Manuscripts, 1924-1933
        • Report to the Second Congregational Society, 1929
        • The Results of Protestantism, February, 1931
        • Abigail Adams Makes a Suggestion & Brooks Adams Asks a Question, 1932
        • Final Report of the Commission on Free Publications of the American Unitarian Association, September 24, 1932
        • Mutual Aid a Factor in Evolution, 1933
    • Petersham, First Congregational Parish Church, 1933-1953
      • Sermons, 1933-1953
        • Remarks at Tenth Anniversary, 1942
        • Service of Commemoration, 1946
        • Not Revelation but Discovery, Not Forms but the Holy Spirit, 1947
        • Why the Birth of Jesus is Celebrated? 1947
      • Publications, 1933-1953
        • A Pilgrimage to Senexet, 1934
        • Norman Hapgood, Editor, 1936
        • A Man in Search of New Saints, 1936
        • Memorial Remarks: Norman Hapgood in Petersham, 1937
        • The Village Church, 1944
        • Channing Day by Day, 1947
      • Manuscripts, 1933-1953
        • The Next Step for Our Unitarian Churches, c. 1934
        • Centralization of Denominational Government: Do We Need More or Less? 1935
        • A New Note in Fiction, 1935
        • Democracy Versus Authority in Church (and State), 1936
        • The Congregational Genius of Our Churches, 1936
        • Modern Christianity at Work in the Country, 1944
        • No Title. Notes on the Ministry, No Date
    • Undated Materials
      • Sermons, undated
        • From Copernicus to Galileo
      • Manuscripts, undated
        • Notes on Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution, by P. Kropotkin, No Date
        • Outline of Points on English Bible, No Date
        • Grounds for Faith in Religious Liberty, No Date
    • Funeral, 1953, and After
      • Funeral Service for Earl Clement Davis, May 21, 1953
      • Obituary for Earl Clement Davis, American Unitarian Association Yearbook
      • Obituary for Earl Clement Davis, May 21, 1953

Democracy Versus Authority in Church (and State), 1936

This address, written with Carl Heath Kopf, minister of the Mt. Vernon Church of Boston, was delivered at the Massachusetts Convention of Congregational Ministers in King’s Chapel, Boston.

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