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Earl Clement Davis
The Manuscripts
String-Bound Collection from 1906
Four-twine-bound Collection of Manuscripts, 1909-1911
Three-Top-Brad-bound Collection of Manuscripts, 1912-1918
1918 Four-brad Bundle of Manuscripts
Before, -1902
Early Genealogy of the Davis Family
First Sermon Preached: The Church as a Social Institution, 1901
Harvard, 1902-1904
Divinity School Class Papers and Thesis, 1902-1904
Theology I: Borden P. Bowne’s Philosophy of Theism, December 15, 1902
Philosophy V: The Country Manufacturing Plant: A Solution of One Aspect of Housing the Poor, December 16, 1902
History VI: Saint Columbanus, January 20, 1903
Sermons I: The Leadership of Jesus, February 19, 1903
Church History VI: Suppression of the English Monasteries, May 16, 1903
Homiletics II: The Conquest of Unconscious Sins, January 7, 1904
New Testament II: Greek, February 2, 1904
Thesis: A Prophet of Democracy, June, 1904
An Unknown Sacrifice, No Date
Sermons, 1902-1904
Theology I: Being of God, February 9, 1903
Simple Religion, No Date
The Motive Power of Vision, 1903
Feed the Whole Man, 1903
Labor and Brotherly Love, 1903
The Renewal of the Spirit, No Date, probably 1903
Education the Means; Religion the Dynamic, 1904
The Roots of Victory, 1904
Sympathy, 1904
The World of Fancy, 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 Modern Pioneer, 1904
Man’s Responsibility, 1904
Pittsfield, Unity Church, 1905-1919
1905-1907 Sermons & Manuscripts
Sermons, 1905-1907
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
Why Does One Go To Church?
What is Christianity? The Letter Killeth but the Spirit Giveth Power, No Date
The Compelling Power of the Christ Like Life, Sermon Notes, No Date
Choosing the Noble Life, 1906
The Missionary Spirit, 1906
Abraham Lincoln and the Needs of the Times, 1906
Religion in a Democracy, 1906
Broken Ideals and Discouraged Worshippers, 1906
The Relation of Religion to Health, 1906
The Finality of Christianity, 1906
Take Time to Live, 1906
The Rejected Corner Stone, 1906
From Smoke to Pen, 1906
Jesus, The Lover of Human Nature, 1906
Temptation, 1906
Manuscripts, 1905-1907
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
Industrial Cooperation, 1906
Boston Herald: “Church Fairs and Suppers Graft and Blackmail, Says Minister,” January 20, 1907.
1908 Sermons and Manuscripts
Address at the Lincoln Celebration Held Under the Auspices of the Colored M.E. Church, 1908
In the Service of the Country, May 22, 1908
The Open Way and the Life of Man, May 31, 1908
The Motive of Right Living (Outline of a Sermon), June 7, 1908
The Moral Significance of the Evolution of Religious Faith: From the Idea of God as an Occasional Visitor, To the Idea of God as the Indwelling Goodwill, June 14, 1908
The Place of the Church in the Life of the Individual and in Society, June 21, 1908
Mountain Climbing, June 28, 1908
The Spirit of the Evangel, July 5, 1908
The Moral Conscience and the Needs of the Times, July 12, 1908
The Bearing of Burdens, July 19, 1908
Helping the Other Man: The Moral and Religious Problem of the Present, July 26, 1908
For the Joy of Living, August 2, 1908
The Educated Good Will, August 9, 1908
Keeping Back a Part of the Price, August 30, 1908
The Conservation of Resources, September 6, 1908
Some Religious and Social Ideas of Tolstoy, September 13, 1908
Faith in Life, September 20, 1908
The Value of Doubt in Religious Life, September 27, 1908
The Religion of Humanity, October 18, 1908
The Need for Extending More Rational Methods in Dealing with the Small Offenders Against the Social Order, October 25, 1908
Record [of Experience of Psychic Phenomenon], 1908
Practical Politics and Civic Righteousness, November 1, 1908
Our Growing Hunger for an Absorbing Service, November 6, 1908
Clear Thinking and Right Living in the Individual, November 13, 1908
The Puritan Spirit in the Life of Today, November 26, 1908
The Motive of Conduct in a World of Righteousness, 1908
Report to the Parish, 1908
Report to the Unity Workers, 1908
Lincoln Steffens to Speak at Colonial Theatre, 1908
The Social Unrest, 1908
1909 Sermons and Manuscripts
The Value and the Limitation of Allegiance to Religious Leaders, February 14, 1909
The Spiritual Realities of Everyday Life, February 28, 1909
The Inevitable Compensation of Thought and Conduct, March 14, 1909
The Nature and Function of the Church, April 4, 1909
The Festival of the New Life, Easter Sunday Service, April 11, 1909
Moral Responsibility and Moral Accountability, April 25, 1909
The Travail and Pain of Human Life, What Can It Mean? May 2, 1909
The Adventurous Task of the Church, May 16, 1909
The Fate of Tomlinson, May 23, 1909
The Making of Reality, June 13, 1909
Our Debt to Thomas Paine, Patriot and Freethinker, June 27, 1909
What Go Ye Out To Seek? July 18, 1909
Two Great Principles of the Modern World, September 19, 1909
What To Do? September 26, 1909
Confidence in the Amateur Thinker, October 3, 1909
Ex-President Eliot as a Religious Thinker, October 17, 1909
The Spirit of the Times, October 24, 1909
The Individual and Society, November 14, 1909
John Brown and the Passion for Justice, November 21, 1909
Is Your God Dead? December 5, 1909
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Man of an Understanding Heart, December 12, 1909
Good Will Among Men, Is it a Fact or a Theory? December 19, 1909
That Man May Live, December 26, 1909
The Significance of Count Tolstoi, 1909
Edgar Allen Poe, 1909
Robert Louis Stevenson, the Writer and the Man, 1909
1910 Sermons and Manuscripts
An Appeal for Self-Assertion, January 2, 1910
Is There Any Sense in Praying? January 9, 1910
A Carpenter in the Face of Danger, Easter Service, March 27, 1910
Theodore Parker, The Man of Conviction, June 10, 1910
A More Abundant Life, June 19, 1910
The Democracy of God, September 25, 1910
The Democracy of the Bible, October 2, 1910
Some Questions of Municipal Housekeeping, December 4, 1910
The Joy of a Pagan Christmas, December 25, 1910
Socialism: A Reply, 1910
Churches for Truth and Justice, 1910
The Work of a Church Today, 1910
The Class Struggle, 1910
What about City Government, Pipe and Pen Club, 1910
Marriage and Divorce, 1910
The Churches and Socialism, 1910
The Social Ideal of the Modern World, 1910
Socialism, 1910
1911-1913 Sermons and Manuscripts
The Demands of the New Year, January 1, 1911
The Essence of Manhood, January 8, 1911
Plodding Illuminated by Imagination, January 15, 1911
Address Given at the Presentation of Diplomas to Members of the Graduating Classes of Grammar Schools in Pittsfield, 1911
Robert Burns: The Poet of Common Life, 1912
The Influence of Democracy on Religious Thought and Practice, 1913
The Court Jester to King Bourgeois, 1913
1914-1919 Sermons and Manuscripts, including sermons During the War
The New Era, 1914
The Social Message of William Ellery Channing
The Other End of a Shad Dinner, 1916
The Dream of a Christmas Shopper, 1916
The Church as Fellowship for Common Purpose, April 8, 1917, Easter Sunday
A Sermon on Patriotism and The Spirit of ’76, April 15, 1917
The Undercurrent of the Times, April 29, 1917
The Great Tradition Becomes The Great Faith, 1918
Five Months at Camp Devens, 1918
Peace Service Sermon: A Dynamic Peace, 1918
The Significance of Labor Strikes from the Point of View of Evolution of Religion, 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 Democratization of Industry, 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
Channing, The Apostle of Liberty, 1919
Report of a Survey of Industrial Relations, September 22, 1919
1916, History Manuscript: The Origins and History of the Bible
Lecture I: The English Bible
Lecture II: History of Early Bible Manuscripts
Lecture III: The Origin of the Books of the Old Testament, Part 1
Lecture IV: The Origin of the Books of the Old Testament, Part 2
Lecture V: Amos and the Prophets
Lecture VI: Finding the Book of Instruction in the Temple
Lecture VII: When and Where did the Hebrew Bible Become a Canonical Text?
Lecture VIII: The Historical Setting to the Early Origins of the Christian Bible
Lecture IX: the Bible of the Early Christians
Lecture X: Unfortunately Missing, Likely on the Epistles
Lecture XI: The Words of Jesus
Lecture XII: Establishing the New Testament Canon
Lecture XIII: the Bible as a Whole
Lecture XIV: The New Testament Story of the Resurrection
Lecture XV: Bibliography
Lecture XVI: Appendix: Additional Materials
1908-1919 Undated Sermons from Pittsfield
Count Leo Tolstoy: A Tragedy of the Times, undated
Behold: A Man, No Date
What Think Ye of Man? No Date
Sermon on Labor, 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
The Ethical Aspect of Socialism, No Date
Permanent Characteristics of Liberal Religion, No Date
Review of “The Introduction of Androcles and the Lion” by G. B. Shaw, No Date
The Hope for a New Age, Sermon Notes, No Date
The Relation of Public Schools to Life, No Date
The Bible as Literature, 191X
Why Cardinal O’Connell is Wrong! 191X
Lancaster, Church of Our Father, 1919-1924
Sermons, Manuscripts and Publications, 1919-1924
God and My Neighbor, September 21, 1919
Letter Exchange between C. E. Haupt and E. C. Davis, January, 1920
True Meaning of “the Coming Crisis,” 1920
Will a Belief in Immortality Survive? April 4, 1920
Remarks at Unveiling of the Frieze of the Prophets, 1920
Letter to the Editor of the Lancaster Public Ledger, 1920
Thanksgiving, Then and Now, November 28, 1920
Review of The Behavior of Crowds by Everett Dean Martin, 1920
An American Sunday, January 16, 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
Music in Religion, Sermon Notes and Preparatory Notes, October 21, 1921
Notes on The Mirrors of Downing Street by Gentleman with a Duster, 1921
Speech by James H. Maurer, “The Open Shop?” and Maurer’s correspondence with Earl Davis ahead of a meeting on March 9, 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
Notes on The Glass of Fashion by Gentleman with a Duster, 1922
The Fact of God in Human Experience, September 17, 1922
Two Sermons for October 15, 1922: Morning Service, “The Mind in the Making;” Evening Service, “The Golden Rule in Religion”
The Great Relay Race, Notes on an Address to the Students at the YMCA F+M Academy, October 20, 1922
The Well Fed Mind, 1922
Notes on Silhouettes of my Contemporaries by Lyman Abbott, 1922.
The Essential Christ, 1922
Notes on “The Renaissance of Prayer” by Samuel McComb, November, 1922
The Need For A Spirit of Broad Fellowship. What shall we do with the Heretics? 1923
Did Christ Have the Power of God, February 25, 1923
Mennonites: Notes for Talk Given at Wilmington, Delaware, March 1, 1923
Is Protestantism in the Midst of a Revolution? March 18, 1923
The Lost Stream of Frankness and Freedom, 1923
The Land of Promise, October 21,1923
Concord, Unitarian Church, 1924-1933
Sermons and Manuscripts, 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
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, Manuscripts, Publications 1933-1937
The Beginning of a Long Trail, March 4, 1934, Loomis School
The Next Step for Our Unitarian Churches, c. 1934
A Pilgrimage to Senexet, 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
Norman Hapgood, Editor, 1936
Order of Worship for Children’s Sunday, June 7, 1936
A Man in Search of New Saints, 1936
The Congregational Genius of Our Churches, 1936
Memorial Remarks: Norman Hapgood in Petersham, 1937
Sermon Notes for 1938
Sermon Notes for 1939-1940
Sermon Notes for 1941
Sermons, Manuscripts and Publications, 1942-1943
Sermon Notes for 1942 and 1943
Remarks at Tenth Anniversary, 1943
From Copernicus to Galileo, 1943
Sermon Notes, Publications and Manuscripts for 1944
Sermon Notes for 1944
The Village Church, 1944
Modern Christianity at Work in the Country, 1944
Sermons and Manuscripts, 1945-1946
Memorial Day Union Service, May 27, 1945
Community Peace Service for Praise and Thanksgiving, August 15, 1945
Union Thanksgiving Service, Petersham, November 18, 1945
Service of Commemoration, 1946
Sermon Notes and Sermon for 1947
Sermon Notes for 1947
Not Revelation but Discovery, Not Forms but the Holy Spirit, 1947
Channing Day by Day, 1947
Undated Materials
No Title. Notes on the Ministry, No Date
Communion Service, No Date
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
Essays
You are All Wizards Now: Commencement Address, June 13, 2021
My TIA, Winter, 2024
Sermons, Manuscripts, Publications 1933-1937
