Sermons, 1905-1919
Document Type
Sermon
Files
Date
10-17-1909
Summary
This is from the bound collection—“bundle #4”—that includes sermons from February 14, 1909 to December 26, 1909.
Charles William Eliot (1834-1926) was President of Harvard University from 1869 to 1909; this included the period of time when Earl Davis was a student in the Harvard Divinity School. This sermon was inspired by a conference held at the opening of the 1909 Harvard Divinity School summer session. Roughly half of the sermon focuses on the address by Charles Eliot — then having just stepped down from the Harvard Presidency — which closed the conference. This address ultimately was published — Charles W. Eliot, “The Religion of the Future,” The Modern Review, January 1912, pp. 30-39 — and by comparing quotations
in Davis’ text with this publication, it was possible to confirm these quotations.
Evidently a printed copy of Eliot’s talk was made available at the conference — or Davis took remarkably good notes. Using quotation indentation, efforts are made to signal which portions of the sermon text are direct quotes from Eliot’s published article.
Date refers to Date Given.
The primary downloadable document contains the original document followed by the transcription. The bottom of each item page also features the primary document as an embedded pdf for browsing.
Transcription by Davis Baird. Item description based off writing and context provided by Davis Baird.
Keywords
Earl Clement Davis, sermons, minister, Unitarianism, religion, Charles William Eliot
Recommended Citation
Davis, Earl Clement, "Ex-President Eliot as a Religious Thinker" (1909). Sermons, 1905-1919. 49.
https://commons.clarku.edu/pittsfield_sermons/49
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