James Morris Whiton papers, circa 1819 -- 1929

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Series 3: Writings, 1848 -- 1919

This series is open for research.

3.25 linear feet; 3.25 linear feet; 7 boxes

This series contains manuscript and print addresses, essays, and notes, as well as sermons. The newspaper articles were either by or about Whiton. There are also articles that influenced or were collected by Whiton himself. Whiton was an active reviewer of books and other publications, and this series also contains information on those. The "topic files" contain information and articles on specific organizations and people that influenced Whiton. This includes Henry Ward Beecher, the Federal Council of Churches in America, liturgy, slavery, Church Union, and Westminster Catechism.

This series is arranged by material type.



Box 3:1 Folder 1 Articles, essays, and notes, circa 1866 -- 1919

"The Alleged Infallibility of the Scriptures Practically Considered," "The Anti-Christian Use of the Bible," "Business Ethics," "Christology," "Church Action for Political Morality," "The Coming of the Son of Man"


Box 3:1 Folder 2 Articles, essays, and notes, circa 1866 -- 1919

"Damage by a Good Word," "The Divine Trilogy as Biological Reality"


Box 3:1 Folder 3 Articles, essays, and notes, circa 1866 -- 1919

"An Ethical Creed," "Ethical Regulations," "The Gambling Evil," "The God-Consciousness of Jesus," "Inefficient Religion and Efficient," "The Inspiration of the Prophets," "Introduction to the Meeting of the General Assembly of Congregational Churches of Massachusetts"


Box 3:1 Folder 4 Articles, essays, and notes, circa 1866 -- 1919

"John Wiclif as a Social Leader," "Missions and Massacres," "Modern Theology," "Moorehead Lake," "The Moral Crisis Confronting the Church," "Moral Defects in Recent Sunday School Teaching," "Morality Real and Unreal," "Outworn Theological Ideas"


Box 3:1 Folder 5 Articles, essays, and notes, circa 1866 -- 1919

"The Place of Departed Spirits," "Practicing the Presence of God," "Public Sentiment," "Premature Burial," "The Reaction of Ethics upon Economics"


Box 3:1 Folder 6 Articles, essays, and notes, circa 1866 -- 1919

"Religion in Our Public Schools," "Religion Versus Customary Morality," "Religious Solidarity"



Box 3:2 Folder 1 Articles, essays, and notes, circa 1866 -- 1919

"Report on the Work of the Churches and State of Religion," "Retrospect and Prospect," "The Revival of Atheism," "Selections, Chiefly from the Holy Scriptures, for Devotional Use in Public and Social Worship," "Self Realization as the Christian Aim, "Some Implicates of Theism"


Box 3:2 Folder 2 Articles, essays, and notes, circa 1866 -- 1919

"The Teaching of Christ Respecting the Duration of Future Punishment," "The Teaching of Paul Respecting the Duration of Future Punishment," "Theological Bearings of Modern Philosophy and Science," "Through the Phenomena of Change to the Reality of God," "Trinity and/or Creed," "U.R.S.," "Victim or Warrior?"


Box 3:2 Folder 3-4 For "The Christian Union", 1888 -- 1896


Box 3:2 Folder 5-6 For "The Homiletic Review", 1899 -- 1917



Box 3:3 Folder 1 Interludes in a Time of Change (Reviews), 1909


Box 3:3 Folder 2 For "The Outlook", 1895 -- 1910


Box 3:3 Folder 3 For "The Universalist Leader", 1915


Box 3:3 Folder 4 General, 1894 -- 1919


Box 3:3 Folder 5 Sermons, 1885 -- 1901

"Peace by Power," "Contrasts of a Century," "Reconciled to God," "A Quarter Century Retrospect of Change and Progress in Christian Thought," "Fiftieth Anniversary of North Church," "The Law of Christ," "Christian Morality,"


Box 3:3 Folder 6-8 Sermons, general, 1868 -- 1910



Box 3:4 Sermon scrapbook, 1871 -- 1874



Box 3:5 Folder 1-2 "New Theology," Controversy over Whiton's sermons, General Content by Whiton, circa 1866 -- 1919


Box 3:5 Folder 3-4 Articles that Influenced Whiton, circa 1866 -- 1919


Box 3:5 Folder 5 Contributed and Editorial, circa 1866 -- 1919


Box 3:5 Folder 6 Articles about Book Reviews, National Tribune and New York Herald, circa 1866 -- 1919


Box 3:5 Folder 7 Articles by Whiton, Washington D.C. and London, circa 1866 -- 1919


Box 3:5 Folder 8 Scraps from English Papers, circa 1866 -- 1919


Box 3:5 Folder 9 Correspondence from journals, circa 1866 -- 1919



Box 3:6 Folder 1-4 Reviews of Books and Publications, circa 1866 -- 1919


Box 3:6 Folder 5-6 Publications Collected by Whiton, circa 1866 -- 1919


Box 3:6 Folder 7-11 Topic Files, circa 1866 -- 1919



Box 3:7 Folder 1 Poetry, circa 1890 -- 1910


Box 3:7 Folder 2 Prizes for Writing, 1848 -- 1891


Box 3:7 Folder 3 Translation Notes, Lecture on Cato the Elder, circa 1848 -- 1891


Box 3:7 Folder 4-5 Practical Ethics, 1863 -- 1904


Box 3:7 Folder 6 Henry Ward Beecher, circa 1863 -- 1904


Box 3:7 Folder 7-9 Unpublished Manuscript: From Seers to Prophets, 1885