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Authority in Religion
Excerpt from Authority in Religion: A Sermon Preached at the Ordination of Edwin A. Wheelock, as Pastor of the First Unitarian Church in Dover, N. H., January 7, 1857 ON any other ground than this, who would dare to assume the Office into which we induct our young brother this even ing? To be, as the minister must be to a certain extent, the guide and keeper of a collective conscience; to be deemed, as, in spite of all his disclaimers, he must inevi tably be by the younger and less enlightened members of his flock, an infallible oracle of moral and religious wisdom; to modify, even where he does not mould, the moral sense and standard Of scores or hundreds of families, - who would venture t...
