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Excerpt from Endless Punishment: In the Very Words of Its Advocates F ortunately the time has now arrived when these grave questions can be discussed with a degree of calmness and under an absence of prejudice and passion which hitherto it has been difficult, if not impossible, to com mand. The larger hope, nay, the assured belief, of the final victory of good over evil, is no longer so utterly heretical as to throw its possessor beyond the pale of common-sense and Christian charity. The most zealous advocate of endless punishment is obliged to confess that there is something to be said in favor of a doctrine for which all good men pray, and which, if true, would not only fill the moral universe with joy, but must also te dound to the infinite glory of God. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Thomas was born on January 9, 1804 in Reading, Vermont, United States, one of the ten children of Benjamin and Sally (York) Sawyer. He was a descendant of Thomas Sawyer of Lincolnshire, England, who emigrated to America not later than 1639, and died in Lancaster, Massachussets, in 1706. Young Sawyer's early life was that of most country boys in his day.
During the year 1822 Sawyer lived with the Universalist minister of the town, Samuel C. Loveland, and studied under his direction. He received both a B. A. (1829), and an M. A. from Middlebury College (1833) after many years of financial hardship.
In 1829 Thomas was ordained to the Universalist ministry at the General Convention, meeting at Winchester. In April 1830 he became pastor of the Grand Street Universalist Society, recently organized in New York City, which soon afterward established itself in a church edifice on Orchard Street.
When Sawyer went to New York, organized Universalism had almost ceased to exist there. For the next fifteen years he was a potent force in its upbuilding. His views appeared in printed form: for example, Letters to the Rev. Stephen Remington in Review of His Lectures on Universalism (1839) and Review of Rev. E. F. Hatfield's "Universalism as It Is" (1841).
In the interest of the denomination he started and edited, with Philo Price, the Christian Messenger (1831 - 1835). In November 1835 this was merged with other papers and the Universalist Union established, of which Sawyer was an editor for some years.
In 1845 he became principal of Clinton Liberal Institute. A Universalist theological school, for which in General Conventions and elsewhere he had long pleaded, was soon established in Clinton and Sawyer conducted it in connection with his principalship of the Institute. It ceased to exist when he left Clinton, in 1852, but when the Canton Theological School, the beginning of St. Lawrence University, was founded in 1856, he was made first president of the board of trustees, a position he soon resigned.
He called the convention held in New York, May 1847, which resulted in the founding of Tufts College. Elected its first president in 1852, he would not accept the position because the trustees could not guarantee him the $2, 500 salary for which he asked.
From December 1853 to April 1861 he was again pastor of the Orchard Street Church, New York, declining in the meantime the presidency of Lombard University and of St. Lawrence University.
Once more he appears in the role of an aggressive controversialist, publishing A Discussion of the Doctrine of Universal Salvation (1854), a debate with the Rev. Isaac Westcott, a Baptist, in the Broadway Tabernacle; and Who Is Our God? the Son or the Father? (1859), a reply to Henry Ward Beecher. From January 1863 to the end of 1865 he was editor of the Christian Ambassador.
After relinquishing this position he lived on a farm he had acquired at Star Landing, Woodbridge, New Jersey, until 1869, when he was called to the Packard professorship of theology at Tufts Divinity School. In 1892 he became professor emeritus, having been dean for the ten years preceding, but remained comparatively active until his death in his ninety-sixth year.
Thomas Jefferson Sawyer was an important early educator in the Universalist movement. During his successful ministry he started the periodical, The Christian Messenger, and was its co-editor for a number of years. He was also a founder and prime mover of the Universalist Historical Society in 1834, and was its secretary and librarian for more than fifty years. His famous works: A Discussion of the Doctrine of Universal Salvation (1854), Memoir of Rev. Stephen R. Smith (1852), The Damnation of the Heathen, and the American Board (1888), Endless Punishment in the Very Words of Its Advocates (1891) and others.
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Sawyer was aggressive in the promulgation of Universalist doctrines and quick to take up cudgels in their defense, engaging in numerous public controversies with members of other denominations.
He was a pioneer advocate of educational institutions under Universalist control.
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Horace Greeley, who became one of his parishioners in 1831, later said of him that he "was not a brilliant preacher, and never became such; but he possessed qualities more essential to a clergyman than dazzling eloquence - sound judgment, solid learning, immovable integrity, and profound devotion to his Master's cause".
On September 21, 1830, Sawyer married Caroline Mehitable (died 1894), daughter of Jesse and Anna (Kenrick) Fisher of Newton, Massachussets. She was a woman of considerable literary talent, whose publications include, besides much prose and verse in periodicals, The Juvenile Library (1845), and The Rose of Sharon (1850 - 58), an annual; she also edited from 1861 to 1864 the Ladies' Repository, a Universalist monthly. Seven children were born to her.
