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He was born in Boston, Massachussets, 1812, the son of Benjamin and Catherine (Davis) Thayer and a descendant of Richard Thayer, an early settler of Braintree.
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He was born in Boston, Massachussets, 1812, the son of Benjamin and Catherine (Davis) Thayer and a descendant of Richard Thayer, an early settler of Braintree.
Thomas received his early education in the public schools of Boston and at the Boston Latin School. He was tutored in the studies of the freshman year at Harvard, by F. R. Leverett, master of the Latin School from 1828 to 1831.
He received the degree of D. D. from Tufts college in 1865.
He taught in Hawes Grammar School and later in a preparatory school for boys established by Leverett. While teaching he supplied Universalist churches, and in December 1832 was ordained by the Boston Association of Universalists. The following year he became pastor of the First Universalist Society in Lowell, Massachussets.
He seems to have entered the ministry with the fervor and zeal of a missionary. Theological disputations were the fashion and were carried on uncompromisingly. Thayer quickly took a leading position in the warfare against the doctrine of eternal punishment. He fought with his pen with even greater vigor than with his voice. Assisted by the Rev. Abel C. Thomas, he established and edited (1841 - 42) The Star of Bethlehem, a journal devoted to Universalist propaganda. During the same period he and Thomas wrote and published the Lowell Tracts, five of which are credited to Thayer--"What is Universalism?" , "Scripture Doctrine of the Devil, " and "Truth and Reason Against Creeds" being the best known. He also assisted Thomas in publishing the Lowell Offering, the articles in which were written by the mill girls of Lowell.
In 1845 he accepted a call to Brooklyn, N. Y. He now became less militant, partly because his spare time was devoted to editing The Golden Rule and Odd Fellows' Family Companion, a fraternal publication. In 1851 he returned to his first charge in Lowell.
In 1859 he left Lowell to become pastor of the Shawmut Avenue Universalist Church in Boston, with which he remained until he retired from the active ministry in 1867.
His earliest polemic was Christianity against Infidelity (1836) which was reissued in considerably enlarged form in 1849. One of his most successful and influential works was The Bible Class Assistant, or Scriptural Guide for Sunday Schools (1840). It was a pioneer work in the direction of more sensible and illuminative methods of Biblical instruction, and passed through many editions. In 1855 he copyrighted The Origin and History of the Doctrine of Endless Punishment, and in 1862, Theology of Universalism.
He was a frequent and forceful contributor to the Universalist Quarterly, of which he became editor in 1864. With the exception of a few months' absence on a tour of Europe and the Far East he conducted this journal until his last illness. In it are found his most lasting contributions to the literature of Universalism. He was also the author of much verse which, however, is not available in collected form. Thayer was an overseer of Harvard from 1858 to 1864 and again from 1865 to 1871. He died in Roxbury (part of Boston), Massachussets.
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In March 1853 he married Mrs. Sarah Athena Peck, daughter of Samuel H. Harris of Methuen, Massachussets, by whom he had a daughter.