Publications, 1933-1953
Earl Clement Davis served as the minister of the Petersham First Congregational Parish Church in Massachusetts from 1933 until his death in 1953. The works in this series are a collection of publications from that time. Any undated sermons from this era are listed first, followed by a reverse chronological order.
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The Village Church
Earl Clement Davis
Davis, Earl Clement. "The Village Church". The Christian Register, Unitarian, March 1944, vol. 123, no. 3, pp. 92-93.
A meditation on the role of the village church and its prospects for the future. Davis is mindful of the ongoing war, "the wrecked harvest of a tragic era", and attentive to the fact that the young men going to war continue to want to be recognized in the church: "They should contain the seeds of a better harvest."
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Memorial Remarks: Norman Hapgood in Petersham
Earl Clement Davis
In 1936, the Trustees of the Christian Register, of which Earl Davis was then the President, appointed Norman Hapgood as the editor of the Christian Register. He died on April 29, 1937. Davis wrote these memorial remarks.
Norman Hapgood was an American writer, journalist, editor and critic. In 1919, President Wilson appointed Hapgood Minister to Denmark, a post in which he served for about six months.
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A Man in Search of New Saints
Earl Clement Davis
In this writing, Earl Davis is attending the Tercentenary of Harvard University, listening to President James B. Conant ask "Is there in our time an authentic, unstudied, and spontaneous urge to truth?". This question sends his thoughts to another time, years back, when Davis sat in an office of a large department store at sundown, listening to another man's life story. In prose, he retells the story as it was told to him. The man talking to Davis that day was Milton T. Garvin of Lancaster, PA. Orphaned and possessing no formal education, he went onto become a successful businessman who deeply sought knowledge and something that reconciled science and religion. He found that reconciliation in the Ralph Waldo Emerson and Unitarianism. Garvin financially supported the Church of Our Father in Lancaster.
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Norman Hapgood, Editor [The Christian Register]
Earl Clement Davis
A brief note on the appointment of Norman Hapgood as incoming Editor of the Christian Register. At this time, Davis was the President of the Board of Trustees for the Christian Register.
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A Pilgrimage to Senexet
Isabel Kimball Whiting
In November 1934, Earl Davis and Dr. Charles E. Park led a pilgrimage to Senexet, a retreat in Woodstock, Connecticut. Isabel Kimball Whiting wrote a short description of the experience.
