Re-Statements of Christian Doctrine: In Twenty-Five Sermons

by Henry Whitney Bellows

Excerpt from Re-Statements of Christian Doctrine

Although hardly any two of these sermons were written with reference to each other, and not one of them with any thought of publication, a certain plan will be observed in their arrangement. I intended, at first, to style the volume by what is now only the run ning title, The Re-adjustment of Faith but the un willingness to be thought to claim success in a'work in which I am only an humble striver, induced me to sur render the name. A chief effort of my whole ministry has been to meet, not the scholastic, but the practical and spiritual difficulties which, in our day, make faith in Christianity so hard to thousands of the more thoughtful and educated class. My Object has steadily been to awaken spiritual apprehension without wound ing intellectual laws; and with a profound respect for the understanding, to keep it in its due subordination to still higher faculties of the soul.

446 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1867

About the author

Henry Whitney Bellows was an American clergyman, and the planner and president of the United States Sanitary Commission, the leading soldiers' aid society, during the American Civil War. Under his leadership, the USSC became the major source of spiritual and physical aid for wounded Union soldiers.