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From Poet to Premier. the Centennial Cycle 1809-1909. Poe, Lincoln, Holmes, Darwin, Tennyson, Gladstone
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Thomas Roberts Slicer was an American Unitarian clergyman.
Background
He was born on April 16, 1847 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States, the son of Henry and Elizabeth Coleman (Roberts) Slicer. His father, of Scotch descent, was a prominent minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and several times chaplain of Congress.
Education
Thomas was educated in the public schools of Baltimore and in Baltimore City College.
Career
When he was twenty years old he was admitted on trial to the East Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Church; he was ordained deacon in 1869 and elder in 1871. He then transferred to the Colorado Conference and was pastor at Denver (1871) and Georgetown (1872). Returning East, he became a member of the New York Conference in 1873.
Pastorates in Providence, (1881 - 90), and Buffalo, New York (1890 - 97), were followed by one at All Souls Church, New York City, which continued until his death. Many of his sermons and addresses, stenographically reported, appeared in print, and his church is said to have been one of the few to which strangers in New York City asked to be directed.
He was placed on the board of trustees of the City Club in New York. As chairman of one of its committees he formulated the charges against District Attorney Asa Bird Gardiner in 1900. These were dismissed by Gov. Theodore Roosevelt, who, however, later in the year removed Gardiner from office. He was chairman of the National Commission on Prison Labor, a member of the council of the Immigration League, and a trustee of the People's Institute, to which he was especially devoted.
A poetic strain in his temperament and his interest in the field of literature led him to publish Percy Bysshe Shelley, an Appreciation (1903) and From Poet to Premier: the Centennial Cycle 1809-1909 (1909), which offers commentaries on Poe, Lincoln, Holmes, Darwin, Tennyson, and Gladstone, all born in 1809.
After his death, a volume of selections from his writings, which he himself had put together as an aid to devotion, was published under the title, Meditations: a Message for All Souls (1919).
His varied exertions broke down his health and for two or three years before his death, in New York City, he was comparatively inactive.
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Religion
After serving Methodist Episcopal Church for several years, he was impelled by changes in his theological views to sever his Methodist connections and to unite with the Unitarians.
Views
His works are an attempt to guide those emancipated from the bonds of orthodoxy to a rational religion, and the fundamental ideas they elaborate are that religion is a natural function of the human soul, since the mind is so constituted that it cannot conceive of the causeless; that, consequently, the assumption that what is best in man's mind and feeling has its counterpart at the heart of the universe, is inescapable; and that the religious life consists in the developing of this best to its perfection in the individual and in society.
Although convinced that an ideal society can be achieved only through the regeneration of the individual, he believed that those who sought that ideal were called to combat social evils.
Personality
He had the ability, though speaking extemporaneously, to express ideas cogently, consecutively, and in a manner that held the close attention of his hearers.
Connections
On April 5, 1871, he married Adeline E. Herbert, daughter of Theodore C. Herbert of the United States Navy.