CIVIL WAR Slavery ABOLITION Emancipation CHANNING'S WORK Fine Binding 6 vol 1846

  

Complete 6 Volume Set Measures. 8" tall, 5 1/8" deep, 6 1/2 thick. One of the Most Prominent Preachers and Theologians of His Day. Channing had Lots of Wisdom & Insight Regarding Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation, War, Etc.

Originally Published in 1841, Exactly 20 Years Prior to the American Civil War. Extremely Rare Complete Six Volume Set--NOT a Library Set.

Beautiful Gold Gilt and Embossed Bindings. Perhaps Nicest Set in Existence. The six bindings show NO. Oiling throughout the spines and covers.

The book spines are NOT faded. The exterior book hinges are NOT cracked--all 12. Exterior hinges remain quite functional and are holding strong, like new. The book corners are NOT bumped or soft--all 24 book. Remain sharp and square with NO cloth loss.

Volume II has a discrete chip repair to the top spine edge (see photos). There are NO other chips in the upper and lower spine edges throughout the six volumes.

The exterior page edges remain fresh and bright with VERY VERY LIGHT age toning and NO dust dulling along the top edges. The gold gilt on the spines of the six volumes remains BRIGHT and VIBRANT with NO loss.

The six books stand straight and tall on their own and are NOT askew. At rest, the six books do NOT pop open. The paste down portion of the front and rear endpapers are all holding firmly to the book covers, like new. There is an ink signature of L. Elliot, dated 1846 written on the first free front endpaper in all six volumes.

There are 3 or 4 hand written lines of text about William E. Channing written on the second free front endpaper (of Volume 1 only). The interior (paper) book hinges are NOT cracked--all 12.

Quite functional and are holding strong, like new. The six text blocks remain very tight with NO loose signatures (gatherings).

There are NO pulls or separations within the six text blocks. There are NO missing or loose pages throughout the six volumes. There are NO torn pages throughout the six volumes. The pages throughout the six books are crisp, clean, very very lightly and very evenly age toned with NO.

Foxing, almost as new (see attached photos as an example). The page corners throughout all six volumes remain sharp and square with NO folded pages. There are NO library markings or personal book plates throughout the six books. Other than the signatures on the endpapers (described above) there are NO other signs. Of pencil or ink throughout the pages of the six books. The books have NO smoke, mildew or other unusual odors.

It appears as though these six books have NEVER BEEN OPENED or READ since they were signed 180 years ago! Note: There is a VERY LIGHT moisture stain in the upper corner of the endpaper with the 3 or 4 lines of hand written text in Volume 1 (see attached photo). There is a very very slight remnant of this same moisture stain to the following 25 pages of volume 1 (see attached photo of the Title Page of Volume 1 to see if you can even see it).

None of these 25 pages are rippled or wavey, but remain perfectly flat. Most of these moisture stains are imperceptible unless you look very close.

William Ellery Channing (April 7, 1780 - October 2, 1842) was the foremost Unitarian. Preacher in the United States. In the early nineteenth century and, along with Andrews Norton. Channing was known for his articulate and impassioned sermons and public speeches, and as a prominent thinker in the liberal theology of the day. His religion and thought were among the chief influences on the New England.

Although he never countenanced their views, which he saw as extreme. His espousal of the developing philosophy and theology of Unitarianism. Was displayed especially in his "Baltimore Sermon". 5, 1819, given at the ordination of the theologian and educator Jared Sparks.

Channing, the son of William Channing and Lucy Ellery, was born April. 7, 1780, in Newport, Rhode Island. He was a grandson of William Ellery. Deputy Governor of Rhode Island, Chief Justice, and influential citizen.

As a child, he was cared for by the formerly enslaved woman Duchess Quamino. Who later influenced his views on abolitionism. He became a New England. Channing enrolled at Harvard College. At a troubled time, particularly because of the recent French Revolution. He later wrote of these years. College was never in a worse state than when I entered it. Society was passing through a most critical stage. The French Revolution had diseased the imagination and unsettled the understanding of men everywhere.

The old foundations of social order, loyalty, tradition, habit, reverence for antiquity, were everywhere shaken, if not subverted. The authority of the past was gone.

Graduating first in his class in 1798, he was elected commencement speaker though he was prohibited by the Harvard College faculty from mentioning the Revolution. And other political subjects in his address.

In opposition to traditional American Calvinist orthodoxy, Channing preferred a gentle, loving relationship with God. Proclaiming a God who is to be dreaded. We are told to love and imitate God, but also that God does things we would consider most cruel in any human parent, "were he to bring his children into life totally depraved and then to pursue them with endless punishment".

Channing's inner struggle continued through two years during which he lived in Richmond, Virginia. Working as a tutor for David Meade Randolph. He came to his definitive faith only through much spiritual turmoil and difficulty. Channing was called as pastor of the Federal Street Church. In Boston in 1803, where he remained for the rest of his life.

He lived through the increasing tension between religious liberals and conservatives and took a moderate position, rejecting the extremes of both groups. In 1809 he was elected a Fellow. Of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1815, Channing engaged in a noted controversy on the principles of Unitarianism. A review of a pamphlet on American Unitarianism (American Unitarianism; or a Brief History of the Progress and Present State of the Unitarian Churches of America), attributed to Jeremiah Evarts. Was published in The Panoplist. Channing objected to the way Unitarians in the United States were portrayed in the review. Notwithstanding his moderate position, Channing later became the primary spokesman and interpreter of Unitarianism, after sixteen years at Boston's Federal Street Church. He was invited to come south again to Maryland. To preach the ordination sermon of the future noted educator and theologian Jared Sparks. Known as the First Independent Church of Baltimore. Located at West Franklin and North Charles Streets, in a landmark two-year-old structure designed by noted French émigré architect J. , later known, after a merger with Second Universalist Church in 1935, as the First Unitarian Church of Baltimore (Unitarian and Universalist).

Which was forever after known as "The Baltimore Sermon". The sermon, or address, was given on Wednesday, May. 5, 1819, and was entitled "Unitarian Christianity".

In it, he explicated the distinctive tenets of the developing Unitarian movement, one of which was the rejection of the Trinity. Other important tenets were the belief in human goodness and the subjection of theological ideas to the light of reason. The anniversary of the address is celebrated and observed annually by the Maryland. Churches of the Unitarian Universalist Association.

And its Joseph Priestley District. As "Union Sunday", with occasional ecumenical. Guests from other Christian bodies. Based on these sermons, writer and critic John Neal. In his 1824-25 critical work American Writers.

Called Channing one of the best preachers in the country. He said: Such of his writings as have been published are remarkable for simplicity, clearness, and power. In 1828, he gave another famous ordination sermon, entitled "Likeness to God". The idea of the human potential to be like God, which Channing advocated as grounded firmly in scripture, was seen as heretical by the Calvinist. Religious establishment of his day.

It is in this address that Channing first advocated the possibility for revelation through reason rather than solely from Scripture. American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia classes him as one of several figures who took a more pantheist. Approach by rejecting views of God as separate from the world. Even at the end of his life he adhered to the non- Socinian. Belief in the preexistence of Christ.

William Ellery Channing by Henry Cheever Pratt, 1857. In later years, Channing addressed the topic of slavery. Although he was never an ardent abolitionist.

Channing wrote a book in 1835 entitled Slavery. Channing has, however, been described as a romantic racist. He held a common American belief about the inferiority of African people and slaves and held a belief that once freed, Africans would need overseers. The overseers (largely former slave masters) were necessary because the slaves would lapse into laziness.

Furthermore, he did not join the abolitionist movement because he did not agree with their way of conducting themselves, and he felt that voluntary associations limited a person's autonomy. Therefore, he often chose to remain separate from organizations and reform movements.

This middle position characterized his attitude about most questions although his eloquence and strong influence on the religious world incurred the enmity of many extremists. Channing had an enormous influence over the religious (and social) life of New England, and America, in the nineteenth century. Toward the end of his life, Channing embraced immediate abolitionism. His evolving view of abolitionism was fostered by the success of British abolition.

In the British West Indies. In 1834 and the absence of the expected social and economic upheaval in the post-emancipated Caribbean.

In 1837, Channing published a pamphlet, in the form of an open letter. To Senator Henry Clay, opposing the annexation of Texas. Channing wrote extensively about the emerging new national literature of the United States, saying that national literature is "the expression of a nation's mind in writing", and "the concentration of intellect for the purpose of spreading itself abroad and multiplying its energy".

Channing died in Old Bennington, Vermont. Is placed in his memory. He is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery. THE MAD MONK recognizes that vintage antique books are fragile. Therefore, his books are packaged with the utmost care to insure a safe journey to their new home. Smaller and/or miniature books may be mailed in a padded envelope with other protective measures taken. THE MAD MONK'S PROMISE. THE MAD MONK is an honest and fastidious friar.

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