bMS 595

Barth, Joseph.  Papers, 1932-1983.

Summary Information:

  • Call Number: bMS 595
  • Title: Barth, Joseph. Papers, 1932-1983.
  • Repository: Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-1911
  • Quantity: 55 boxes

Biographical Note:

Joseph Nicholas Barth (1906-1988) was born in Salina, Kansas. He attended a number of schools, including Creighton University and Wesleyan University. In 1934 he married Ramona Sawyer and they had five children. He received a PhB in 1935 from the University of Chicago and a BD from Meadville Theological School, which in 1956 also granted him a DD. Barth had a short academic career, teaching at the University of Puerto Rico. He served as pastor for three congregations in Massachusetts and Florida. He was also a trustee of the Meadville Theological School, chairman of the Interracial Committee of the Boston Council of Churches, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Boston Center for Adult Education. He wrote articles for several journals and published a book entitled The Art of Staying Sane, which was published by the Beacon Hill Press.

Scope and Content:

Sermons, 1937-1975, comprise the bulk of the collection. Other papers include Barth's graduate course work; manuscripts of his lectures; personal files from various ministerial settlements, including Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago and King's Chapel in Boston; correspondence files; and personal writings.

Container List:

Box 1
  • "The Chosen People" - Fall 1933
  • "Christian Ethics" for C.T. Shailer Matthews - Fall 1933
  • Church history course notes - Charles Lyttle
  • Class Notes - I. As arranged
  • Class Notes - II. As arranged
  • Class Notes - III. As arranged
  • "The Cooperation of Liberalism with Science Since 1650" for Dr. Charles Lyttle
  • "The Death of Jesus of Nazareth" for C.R. Bowen, N.T. M303
  • [Esthetic and Religious Experience]
  • "The Idea of God by Pringle-Pattison" Theology - Dr. Hutcheon
  • "Love and Ethics" for Prof. Hartshorne
  • "The Natural Basis of Human Value"
  • Philosophy 207 - Final Exam - Autumn 1932
  • "A Religion of Joy" for Prof. Haydon
  • "The Revelation of John" for Prof. Bowen, N.T. 302
  • "Salvation in Religion and Psychoanalysis" for Prof. Haydon
  • Sociology class paper - 1932
  • "Some Experiences and a Comment" for Dr. Hutcheon
  • Students Conference, Ohio Valley - April 1933
  • Studies in Vocational Ethics - Course of Prof. Arthur E. Holt - Winter 1933
  • A Survey of Two Negro Spiritualistic Churches of Chicago- Faris, Sociology 230
  • Survey Continued - Negro Churches in the City of Chicago - Spring Quarter 1932

Lectures

Box 2
  • Minns Lectures - 1. Covenants Old and New - 1956
  • Minns Lectures - 2. The Workings of the Spirit - 1956
  • Minns Lectures - 3. By What Authority - 1956
  • Minns Lectures - 4. The Body (and Blood) of Christ
  • Minns Lectures - 5. The Polity with a Long Past
  • Minns Lectures - 6. The Future of the Liberal Church - Nov. 14, 1956
  • Minns Lecture - The State of the UU Churches and Their Ministry - Oct. 5, 1975
  • Rohlfing-Ferris Lectureship - The Paradoxicality of the Unitarian Universalist Tradition
  • Lecture - A Theological Approach to Religious Liberalism - St. Lawrence, Feb. 4, 1960

Office Files

Box 3
  • A - Miscellaneous - 1945
  • The Alliance - 1940, 1945
  • Douglas Angelilli Conscientious Objector - 1942
  • May Meeting, AUA Address by Joseph Barth - May 19, 1942
  • "The Art of Staying Sane" (Book) by J. Barth = Correspondence - 1947-48
  • Boy Scouts - 1940
  • Chicago, University of - 50th Anniversary Fund - J. Barth, Chair - 1941
  • Church Bulletins Chicago, 1st Unitarian
  • Church Bulletins from various institutions
  • Church Bulletins Channing Church, Newton - 1901-1941
  • Church School - 1937-41
  • Church School: Movies
  • City Commission, J. Barth Campaign for - Feb.-May 1945
Box 4
  • City Planning Board - 1944-45
  • Civil Liberty - 1940-42
  • Conference on Religion Star Island - 1960
  • Consumers Coop. - 1936-45
Box 5
  • Correspondence Miscellany 1930s - Undated; scraps, etc.
  • Correspondence - 1931
  • Correspondence - 1932
  • Correspondence - 1933
  • Correspondence - 1934
  • Correspondence - 1935-38 - Office
  • Correspondence - 1937 - Personal
  • Correspondence: July 1940-Jan. 1941
Box 6
  • Correspondence - Jan. 1941 - Jan. 1942
  • First Unitarian, Miami - Jan.-Mar. 1942 - General
  • Correspondence - Jan.-Dec. 1942 - Office
  • Correspondence - Jan.-Dec. 1942 - Personal
  • Correspondence - Jan.-Apr. 1943
  • Correspondence - Apr.-Jan. 1943
  • Correspondence - Jul.-Dec. 1943
  • Correspondence - Jan.-June 1944
Box 7
  • Correspondence - Dec. 1944 - Apr. 1945
  • Correspondence - Apr.-June 1945
  • Correspondence - Dec. 1946 - April 1948
  • Correspondence - Nov. 1948 - July 1953
  • Correspondence - Oct. 1955 - Dec. 1959
  • Correspondence - Apr. 1960 - Dec. 1962
  • Correspondence Jan.-Dec. 1963
Box 8
  • Correspondence - Jan.-Oct. 1964
  • Correspondence - Nov. 1964 - Dec. 1965
  • Correspondence - Dec. 1965 - Jan. 1966
  • Correspondence - 1965-66 - Barth Family
  • Correspondence - Jan.-Feb. 1966
  • Correspondence - Feb. 1966 - Sep. 1967
  • Correspondence - Feb.-July 1968
Box 9
  • Correspondence - Aug. 1968 - Jan. 1970
  • Correspondence - Feb. 1970 - May 1971
Box 10
  • Dade County Republican Party
  • First Unitarian, Miami - Constitution
  • Greenfield Group Retreat - Nov. 24-26, 1958 - Senextet House - "The Theology of Unit. Today"
  • Harold James Haynes - Kings Chapel Sexton (?) - reminiscences
  • "Inspirational" (sic) I
  • "Inspirational" (sic) II
  • "Inspirational" (sic) III
  • Kings Chapel: Joseph Barth - Installation 1955-6 - Resignation 1966
  • Kings Chapel: 275th Anniversary Celebration - 1961
  • Marriage Records - 1936-1940
  • McGehee, Charles W. - "Kings Chapel" - paper for American Church History course - Jan.1958
Box 11
  • Mead, Sidney E.: Writings 1950-58, Letter to J. Barth - July 6, 1956, Two Sermons by J.B. 1961
  • Meadville: Bowen, Prof. Clayton R. - Sermons
  • Meadville Commencement - J. Barth = Doctor of Divinity - 1935
  • Meadville and Tufts - Printed Matter
  • Miami Community Forum - 1940-41
  • National Defense - 1971-72 - Printed Matter
  • Ordinations and Installations - 1922-1956
  • Pan Americanism - 1941
  • Political and Social Concerns - 1936-38
  • Prospective Members - 1941
  • Public Housing Mass. - 1957
  • Radio Program - 1940-45 - Texts, requests, radio fund
  • Radio Program - 1940-45 - Correspondence
  • Radio Program - 1941-42 - Recap; notable letters
  • Radio Talks, original copies - 1941-42
Box 12
  • Radio Talks - Folder # 1
  • Radio Talks - WCRB - Folder # 2
  • Radio Talks - WCRB - Folder # 3 - Topics not listed
  • Scrap Book - quotes
  • Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association - Correspondence 1968-71
  • Social Action - 1935-40
  • Social Agencies of Dade County, Fla. - 1940-45
  • Speaking Engagements - 1947-49
  • Syphilis - references from unnamed source, Gonorrhea - newspaper clipping
  • Tapp, Robert B.: Sermon "Can a Free Church Have Goals?" Reply from J. Barth - 1965
  • Town Meeting of the Air - 1941-42
  • Turner, C.P. - Correspondence - 1933-42
  • Unitarian Commission for Transylvania - 1936
  • Unitarian Ministers Association: Correspondence - 1950-51
  • UU Ministers and Churches - Miscellaneous services and printed matter
Box 13
  • UUA Recruitment Committee - 1956
  • United Sermon's Service - 1943-45
  • Veterans Service Committee Council of Social Agencies - 1945
  • Brooks R. Walker "Beacon Hill and Kings Chapel" paper for theology class - Spring 1958
  • White, Glenn Matthew - Ass. Ed., Ladies Home Journal - Correspondence. in re articles by J.B. and White
  • Young People's Religious Union - 1932-35

Personal Papers

Box 14
  • Art, Poetry, Letters - 1929-30
  • Book Contract - 1971
  • Diary 1928-30
  • Engagement Books - 1971-73
  • League of Nations and WWI aftermath - clippings, pamphlets, et al - I
  • League of Nations and WWI aftermath - clippings, pamphlets, et al - II
  • League of Nations and WWI aftermath - clippings, pamphlets, et al - III
  • Miscellany - 1983
  • News Clippings
  • Sermon Notes - 1933

Resources

Box 15
  • Christmas Material
  • Hymns
  • Poetry
  • Prayers - Misc. Orders of Service
  • References and Quotes

Writings

Box 16
  • Poem: "Sweet May"
  • ...A tale of shallowness and deceit about women...
  • "Dear Ethel"
  • Poem: "Like Rain"
  • Fragment - a horseman
  • Poem: "Unknown, I a young man..."
  • [on writing a novel]
  • On Letter Writing - 11-7-1930
  • Short Story
  • Poem: "Out of the North" - 10-17-1930
  • "Young Man Looks at Business"
  • Poems - to Joseph Barth
  • I. Prayers, Sermons, Writings, et al - 1966-
  • II. Sermons, Meditations, Reports for UUA et al - 1966-68
  • III. Reports to UUA; Letter to UU World - 1968-71
  • Manuscript = Title? I = completed form
  • Manuscript = Title? II = Sources, rough drafts, etc., part one
Box 17
  • Manuscript = Title? II = Sources, rough drafts, etc., part two
  • Manuscript = Title? III = "Edited Material NG" (sic)
  • "Ask What Hour It Is" = Steps Toward a Personal Theology - 1st draft?
  • "Ask What Hour It Is" = Steps Toward a Personal Theology - 2nd draft?
  • "Beyond Nationalism" Article in "Wholesale Grocer News" - August 1949
  • Christianity is Dead
  • "Contest for the Presidency" [of the UUA] with critique by "Mason" - 1961
  • Articles for Ladies Home Journal and correspondence - 1959
  • "Need Religion Fear Science" - rough drafts and completed article with critique by R.W. Burhoe - 1963
  • "Our Last Best Chance to Grow Up" - article in Ladies Home Journal and resulting correspondence - April 1961
  • Published Sermons - 1937-52
Box 18
  • Published writings of Joseph Barth
  • "The Story of Kings Chapel"
  • "The Story of Kings Chapel" - 3 drafts
  • "Surviving Marriage Together" - excerpt from book?
  • "Toward a Doctrine of the Free Church" - copy 1
  • "Toward a Doctrine of the Free Church" - copy 2
  • "Toward a Doctrine of the Free Church" - copy 3
  • Untitled (The Superior Person)
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Fragments ???

Sermons—Chronological Arrangement

Box 19
  • List of Topics: 1947-55, 1962-66, Topical
  • Sermon for Young People's Week - Feb. 5, 1933
  • Suburbanites - Jan. 1937
  • Religion and Social Unrest - Oct. 3, 1937
  • Anne Hutchinson - Oct. 10, 1937 (probably)
  • What Prosperity May Do To Us - Dec. 12, 1937
  • Another Way - Christmas 1937
  • The Greatest American Woman - Lucretia Mott - Mar. 1938
  • Don't Get Personal - Jan. 1939
  • Religious Truth - 1939-40, Feb. 20, 1949
  • In Defense of Jesus - Jan. 14, 1940
  • Is God a Lawbreaker? - Nov. 3, 1940, and Mar. 13, 1949
  • Growing Up - Nov. 10, 1940
  • Getting Married - Sunday, Nov. 17, 1940
  • Suffer the Children - Nov. 24, 1940
  • Smother Love - Dec. 8, 1940, and Feb. 27, 1949
  • Unorganized Intelligence - Dec. 29, 1940, and April 10, 1949
  • Why God Lets it Happen - Mar. 2, 1941
  • The Dangers of Believing in God - Mar. 23, 1941, and Mar. 6, 1949
  • The Bad Results of Being Good - Mar. 30, 1941, and Mar. 20, 1949
  • Subversive - May 4, 1941(?)
  • A Thousand Years and a Day - Feb. 7, 1942
  • The Art of Dying - Mar. 1, 1942 / April 14, 1949
  • Recognition Sermon - Social Workers - April 12, 1942
  • A Way Out of Defeat (missing) - May 24, 1942
  • fragment - Oct. 7, 1942
  • Shall We Annihilate Our Enemies? - Jan. 31, 1943
  • Women in the New World to Come - Nov. 1943
  • Russia Carries on the American Revolution - Mar. 19, 1944
  • Can the US Avoid Authoritarianism? - Dec. 8, 1946
  • That Man - John L. Lewis - Dec. 15, 1946
  • The Worst Enemy of the Better - Dec. 22, 1946
  • When the Atom Bomb Falls - Jan. 5, 1947
  • The God I Believe In - Jan. 12, 1947
  • The Art of Staying Sane - Jan. 19, 1947
  • If I Were a Jew - Jan. 26, 1947
  • Open All Week - Feb. 2, 1947
  • The World and You Fifty Years Hence - Mar. 2, 1947
  • America's Most Intolerant Man - Mar. 16, 1947
  • Why Is Mysticism? - May 4, 1947
  • Causes of Miami Police Brutality - Nov. 2, 1947
  • Who Isn't a Communist? - Nov. 9, 1947
  • Henry Wallace - That Third Party - Jan. 25, 1948
  • The Mystery Called Life - May 9, 1948
  • Is It Love? - May 16, 1948
  • Tomorrow's Religion Today - Sep. 26, 1948
  • Are We more or less Honest? - Oct. 3, 1948
  • All Men Are Not Sinners - Oct. 17, 1948
  • United Nations or What? - Oct. 24, 1948
  • Man for Himself - Oct. 31, 1948
  • An Armistice on Propaganda - Nov. 7, 1948
  • Why a Liberal Church - Nov. 14, 1948
  • Religion and the Kinsey Report - Nov. 21, 1948
  • Must the Church be Reactionary? - Dec. 5, 1948
  • Religion and Psychiatry - Dec. 12, 1948
  • If Christmas Were Really So - Dec. 19, 1948
  • Almost Persuaded - Dec. 26, 1948
Box 20
  • Life With the Minister - Jan. 2, 1949
  • I Know a Green Cathedral - Jan. 9, 1949
  • Religion and Communism - Jan. 16, 1949
  • The Sickness called Realism - Feb. 6, 1949
  • Great Americans - Feb. 13, 1949
  • The Sickness called Idealism - Feb. 20, 1949
  • Beyond Nationalism - Mar. 6, 1949
  • The Cardinal and the Commissar - Mar. 13, 1949
  • The Sickness called Neuroticism - Mar. 20, 1949
  • The Varieties of Tolerance - Mar. 27, 1949
  • Atheism and God - April 3, 1949
  • The Atlantic Pact - For War or Peace - April 3, 1949
  • Attitudes of Creative Religion - Curiosity - April 10, 1949
  • Attitudes of Creative Religion - Objectivity - April 10, 1949
  • Attitudes of Creative Religion - Resilience - April 24, 1949
  • Attitudes of Creative Religion - Understanding - May 1, 1949
  • Attitudes of Creative Religion - Creativity - May 15, 1949
Box 21
  • Christian Plus - Oct. 16, 1949
  • Spellman vs. Roosevelt - Oct. 23, 1949
  • Joy Through Suffering - Nov. 13, 1949
  • What Is Wrong with Communism - Nov. 20, 1949
  • Jesus Christ - Dec. 4, 1949
  • Why Is a Scapegoat? - Dec. 11, 1949
  • Excuse for Inaction - Jan. 1, 1950
  • They Chose the Wrong Parents - Jan. 8, 1950
  • Christ-Jesus - Jan. 15, 1950
  • The Right to Chatter - Jan. 22, 1950
  • Materialism among the Spiritualists - Jan. 29, 1950
  • Ban Stromboli - Feb. 26, 1950
  • What Is Sentimentalism? - Mar. 5, 1950
  • The Way Everlasting - Mar. 19, 1950
  • Easter - April 9, 1950
Box 22
  • American-Soviet Conflict: Civil Liberty - April 16, 1950
  • American-Soviet Conflict: Planning - April 23, 1950
  • American-Soviet Conflict: Power - April 30, 1950
  • The Joy of Communication - May 7, 1950
  • Religion for the War We Live In - Oct. 1, 1950
  • A Minister Should Be -- ? - Oct. 8, 1950
  • The Artist and the Neurotic - Oct. 15, 1950
  • Aggressors for Peace - Oct. 22, 1950
  • Liberal Religion at Work - Oct. 29, 1950
  • The Art of Being Married - Nov. 5, 1950
  • The Meaning of Korea - Nov. 12, 1950
  • How to Develop Your Thinking Ability - Nov. 19, 1950
Box 23
  • Courage to Love - Nov. 26, 1950 / revised for Arlington St. - July 14, 1957
  • The Menace of McCarthyism - Dec. 3, 1950
  • What to Expect in Marriage - Dec. 10, 1950
  • Meanwhile - Dec. 17, 1950
  • Living Creatively with Evil - Jan. 7, 1951
  • Going to be Married - Jan. 14, 1951
  • They Ought To... - Jan. 21, 1951
  • The Disappearance - Jan. 28, 1951
  • Gambling - Feb. 11, 1951
  • God Without a Long Beard - Feb. 25, 1951
  • Sin and the New Psychology - Mar. 4, 1951
Box 24
  • Half Past Life - Mar. 11, 1951
  • Jesus Was a Unitarian - Mar. 18, 1951
  • Dare We Choose Life - Easter - Mar. 25, 1951
  • Now, Dianetics! - April 1, 1951
  • Moral Rearmament - April 15, 1951
  • In Defense of America - April 22, 1951
  • Not So Late as You Think - May 13, 1951
  • Liberalism and the Party Line - Oct. 7, 1951
  • The Right to be Angry - Oct. 14, 1951
  • Do The Dead Men Know? - Oct. 21, 1951
  • Dust with a Destiny - Oct. 28, 1951
  • Truman and the Vatican - Nov. 11, 1951
Box 25
  • When Orange Blossoms Fade - Nov. 18, 1951
  • The "Right" to Conformity - Nov. 25, 1951
  • Honesty Is Impossible - Dec. 2, 1951
  • Objectivity Is Impossible - Dec. 16, 1951
  • Failure Is Difficult - Dec. 30. 1951
  • The Loving Attitude - Jan. 6, 1952 / 1st Parish Weston - Feb. 7, 1954
  • The Loving Method - Jan. 13, 1952
  • The Loving Demand - Jan. 20, 1952
  • The Loving Result - Jan. 27, 1952
  • Why Socialism Grows - Feb. 3, 1952
  • USA - A Protestant Country? - Mar. 2, 1952
  • __________; First 2 pages missing -- Perhaps = "God - Behind all Gods" - Mar. 9, 1952
Box 26
  • Arm Chair Liberals - Mar. 23, 1952
  • Sex in Marriage - Mar. 30, 1952
  • Spring of Life - April 13, 1952
  • The Danger of Militaristic Socialism - April 20, 1952
  • You Don't Understand - May 4, 1952
  • Liberals Look Both Ways - Sep. 21, 1952
  • Prepare to Meet Thy God - Oct. 5, 1952
  • O Dear Banana Tree - Oct. 12, 1952
  • The Shadow of Greatness - Oct. 19, 1952
  • The Art of Being - Nov. 2, 1952
  • The Art of Being - Nov. 2, 1952 / recycled as Being - Oct. 6, 1957
Box 27
  • Attached Detachment - Nov. 9, 1952
  • Our Fathers - Nov. 16, 1952
  • The Great "I Am" - Nov. 30, 1952
  • The Comprehending Experience - Dec. 14, 1952
  • In His Own Image - Jan. 11, 1953
  • The Most Dangerous Radicalism - Feb. 1, 1953 / Mar. 11, 1953
  • The Wealth of the World - Feb. 15, 1953
  • The Mystery of Wholeness - Mar. 8, 1953
  • Unafraid to Die - Mar. 29, 1953
  • High Cast of Non Conformity - Apr. 26, 1953
  • Ties That Do Not Bind - May 3, 1953
  • The Liberal Church and The Liberal Cause - Sep. 20. 1953
  • Coming to Terms with Evil - Oct. 4, 1953
  • On the Level - What Level? - Oct. 18, 1953
  • Hydrogen Bomb - Oct. 25, 1953
  • What God? - Nov. 8, 1953
  • Why I Didn't Commit Suicide - Nov. 22, 1953
  • Marriage - Are You Stuck With It? - Nov. 29, 1953
  • Disappearing Difference - Dec. 6, 1953
  • The Need to Change - Dec. 27, 1953
  • The Profit Motive in Society - Jan. 3, 1954
  • Ecclesiastical Malnutrition - Jan. 31, 1954
  • Are You a Unitarian Without Knowing It? - Mar. 7, 1954
Box 28
  • Life is For Awhile - Mar. 21, 1954
  • Why "Boom or Bust"? - Mar. 28, 1954
  • Stars in Your Crown - Apr. 4, 1954
  • Death of a Hero - Apr. 11, 1954
  • The Hand That Made Us - May 9, 1954
  • When Fear Strikes our Community - June 27, 1954
  • Untitled - Ocean Chapel Point - Aug. 19, 1954
  • Virtue by Association - Sep. 19, 1954
  • The Popular Myth Called "Security" - Sep. 26, 1954
  • The Uses of Adversity - Oct. 10, 1954 / also Ithaca, Burlington, VT, Worcester / revised for All Souls NYC - Aug 18, 1957
  • Between White Supremacy and Racial Integration - Oct. 31, 1954
  • Discontent: Diabolic or Divine? - Nov. 7, 1954
Box 29
  • Have You Ever Joined the Human Race? - Nov. 14, 1954 / Palm Beach - Feb. 20, 1955
  • Investment in The Better - Nov. 28, 1954
  • The Promise of Good Things to Come - Dec. 5, 1954
  • Morality Is Unethical - Dec. 12, 1954
  • A Year to Live - Dec. 26, 1954
  • Competitive Co-Existence - Jan. 9, 1955
  • Is Time on the Side of Communism? - Jan. 16, 1955
  • Freedom in Fellowship - Feb. 27, 1955
  • Improving the Golden Rule - Mar. 13, 1955
  • The Courage to Be Nobody - Apr. 8, 1955
  • The Price of Fellowship - Apr. 24, 1955
  • The Courage to Be Somebody - May 1, 1955
  • First Things and Last - Sep. 18, 1955 / Ocean Point - Aug. 1954 / "1st day of Holy Week, Kings Chapel - 1956"
Box 30
  • The Worlds We Live In: Religion - Nov. 20, 1955
  • [New Years Day] - Jan. 1, 1956
  • The Ordering of Duty in the Liberal Ministry - Jan. 8, 1956 / (revised?) for H.D.S. - Feb. 29, 1956
  • Congregation: Sitting or Kneeling? - Jan. 15, 1956
  • Through Jesus Christ Our Lord - Jan. 22, 1956
  • How It Feels to Start a Church - Jan. 29, 1956
  • Be Still - Feb. 12, 1956
  • He Had Fasted - Feb. 19, 1956
  • No Power of Ourselves - Feb. 26, 1956
  • Lent: Exercise - Union Lenten Service, Sun. evening - Mar. 4, 1956
  • Good Friday (Murdered Greatness) - 1956
  • Good Friday - 1956
  • Easter - Apr. 1, 1956
  • The Moral Command in Absolute - Apr. 8, 1956
Box 31
  • Moral Demands are Relative - Apr. 15, 1956
  • The Pharisaism of the Publican - May 6, 1956
  • The Price of Freedom - Norfolk-Suffolk Conf.. - Sun. May 6, 1956 at 4 pm
  • Toolmaking Man - May 13, 1956
  • Why Men Say God - May 27, 1956
  • The Lord's Song in a Strange Land - June 3, 1956 / All Souls NYC - Aug. 26, 1956
  • Freedom-in-Fellowship - Meadville - June 5, 1956
  • How to Grow Corn - June 10, 1956
  • Celebrating July 4th - July 1, 1956
  • Brotherhood - Ideal or Reality? - Oct. 5, 1956
  • Give God Credit - Oct. 21, 1956
  • The Meaning of Reformation - Oct. 28, 1956 / Beverly Mass. - Oct. 25, 1958, evening
  • A Eucharist for Unitarians - Nov. 4, 1956
  • Liberal Religion and a Free Press - Nov. 11, 1956
  • My Brother's Keeper - Nov. 18, 1956
  • Thanksgiving - Nov. 22, 1956
  • Remembrance Is Sweet - Forefathers' Day - Nov. 25, 1956
Box 32
  • Dependent? - Dec. 2, 1956
  • Two Dangers of Thinking About Morality - Crane Theological School - Dec. 5, 1956
  • Independent? - Dec. 9, 1956
  • Interdependent - Dec. 16, 1956
  • The Wonderful Christmas Stories - Dec. 23, 1956
  • Christmas Eve - Dec. 24, 1956
  • Christmas Day - Dec. 25, 1956
  • A New Year's Sermon - Dec. 30, 1956
  • Hungary and the Free Faith - Jan. 20, 1957
  • Jesus' Love and God's Anger - Jan. 27, 1957
  • Your Life and the Pound Law - Feb. 3, 1957
  • The Impossible Possibility Called Perfection - Feb. 17, 1957
  • A Being Beset - Feb. 24, 1957
  • Ash Wednesday - Mar. 6, 1957
  • Happiness: Idol or a Grace? - Mar.10, 1957
Box 33
  • The Bible: Idol or Source of Vital Truth? - Mar. 7, 1957
  • The Church: Idol or a Way? - Mar. 24, 1957
  • The State: Idol or Instrument? - Mar.31, 1957
  • Jesus: Idol or Inspiration - Apr. 14, 1957
  • Holy Thursday 1957 - Apr. 18, 1957
  • Easter - Apr. 1957
  • Legalized Gambling: Sense or Nonsense? - May 5, 1957
  • Running Away from Maturity - May 19, 1957
  • Patterns of Growth - May 26, 1957
  • A Sound from Heaven - June 9, 1957
  • Dedication of Parish House, Walton NH - June 23, 1957 at 3:30 pm
  • High Religion - Summer 1957
  • Secret Place of the Most High - Summer 1957
  • Freedom in Fellowship - Milwaukee - Oct. 13, 1957
Box 34
  • Humanism Among the Theists - Oct 20, 1957
  • Theism Among the Humanists - Oct 27, 1957
  • The Communion of Saints - Among us Sinners - Nov. 3, 1957
  • What Sputnik Writes in the Sky - Nov. 10, 1957
  • An Appletree and the Cross - Nov. 17, 1957 / recycled many times
  • The King's Chapel Among Puritans - Nov. 24, 1957
  • Thanksgiving - Nov. 28, 1957
  • A Holy Indifference - Dec. 1, 1957
  • Untitled - Middlesex School - Dec. 8, 15, 1957
  • Atomic Devils and the Prince of Peace - Dec 15, 1957
  • Christmas Sermon (sic) - Dec. 22, 1957
  • Christmas - Dec. 25, 1957
  • New Year Sermon - Dec. 29, 1957
  • Our Heritage from Judaism/Roman Catholicism/Protestantism/Unitarianism - Jan. 1958
  • Our Heritage from Judaism - Jan. 5, 1958
  • Our Heritage from Roman Catholicism - Jan. 12, 1958
Box 35
  • Our Heritage from Protestantism - Jan. 19, 1958
  • King's Chapel - Our Heritage from Unitarianism - Jan. 26, 1958
  • Our Push-Button Hell - Feb. 9, 1958
  • God - As Experiencing - Feb. 23, 1958
  • Objectivity and Compassion - Appleton Chapel - Feb. 24, 1958
  • Negative Question - Lenten Monday - Feb. 25, 1958
  • Never Let Your Brotherly Love Fail - Appleton Chapel - c.1958-60 / WEEI 1963/4?
  • [Hard Sayings of Jesus] - Appleton Chapel - Feb. 26, 1958
  • Positive Answer - Noonday Lenten Service - Feb. 26, 1958
  • God - As Transcendent Giveness - Mar. 2, 1958
  • God - As Creator - Mar. 9, 1958
  • Installation of John Arnold Meardon - Melrose, MA - Mar. 9, 1958
  • God - As Unconscious Creativity - Mar. 23, 1958
  • God - As Redemptive Love - Mar. 30, 1958
  • Holy Thursday Eve - Apr. 3, 1958
  • Good Friday - 1958
  • Participation in the Eternal - Easter - Apr. 6, 1958
  • The Religion of Thomas Jefferson - Apr. 13, 1958
Box 36
  • There Shall Be One Fold - Apr. 20, 1958
  • "The Sabbath for Man" - May 4, 1958
  • A Crisis in Trust - May 11, 1958
  • An Axiom in Morality - May 18, 1958
  • The New Liberalism - May 25, 1958
  • God in the Summertime - June 8, 1958 / Arlington St. - July 13, 1958 / All Souls NYC - Aug. 16, 1959
  • On Vacation - Aug. 24, 1958
  • Ordination - "The Religious Man" - Sep. 28, 1958 / Nov. 1, 1957 / Oct. 20, 1957
  • The Unsung Goodness - Oct. 5, 1958
  • YHWH - Oct. 12, 1958
  • Souls and Systems - Oct. 19, 1958 / Germantown, Pa. - Jan. 11, 1959
  • The Names on Our Faces - Oct. 26, 1958
  • The Redemption of the World - Nov. 2, 1958
  • The Tassel of Jesus - Nov. 16, 1958
  • The Other Nine - Nov. 23, 1958
Box 37
  • Thanksgiving - 1958
  • The City Was Moved - Nov. 30, 1958
  • The Fear of Christmas - Dec. 7, 1958
  • The Judgment of Christmas - Dec. 14, 1958
  • The Promise of Christmas - Dec. 21, 1958
  • Christmas - 1958
  • [Celebration of the Dawning of a New Year] - New Year 1959
  • The Paradox of Prayer - Jan. 4, 1959 / Ocean Point, ME - Aug. 13, 1961
  • Predestination and Freedom - Jan. 18, 1959
  • Preparing for the Worst - Feb. 1, 1959
  • Preparing for the Best - Feb. 8, 1959
  • The Religion of Openness - to the Past - Feb. 15, 1959
  • To Evil Open - Feb. 22, 1959
  • [Grace Be With You] - Appleton Chapel - 1959
  • Openness to the Better - Mar. 1, 1959
  • The Religion of Openness - to One's Self - Mar. 8, 1959
  • The Religion of Openness - to Creation - Mar. 15, 1959
  • The Religion of Openness - to Judgment - Mar. 26, 1959
  • Holy Thursday - Mar. 26, 1959
Box 38
  • Good Friday - Mar. 27, 1959
  • The Religion of Openness - to the Future - Easter - Mar. 29, 1959
  • The Intelligence to Know Your Own Cross - St. Paul's - Apr. 8, 1959
  • On This Wise Showed He - Apr. 12, 1959
  • Before Last Judgment - Apr. 19, 1959
  • War - Superstition, Insanity, or Sin - Apr 26, 1959
  • Utopia and Life - May 3, 1959
  • The Trinity - May 10, 1959
  • Whitsunday - May 17, 1959
  • The Difficulty of Community - May 24, 1959
  • The Life Behind Life - June 7, 1959
  • Expectation - June 21, 1959
  • A Way to Religious Experience - Sep. 20, 1959
  • High and Hearty Expectation - Oct. 4, 1959
  • American Soviet Meetings - Oct. 18, 1959
  • Born in Paradise - Oct 25, 1959
  • Dreading and Hoping All - Nov. 1, 1959
  • Thine Inestimable Love - Nov. 8, 1959
Box 39
  • Merger - Nov. 15, 1959
  • Thanksgiving! - Nov. 22, 1959
  • Thanksgiving - Nov. 26, 1959
  • Standing in History - Nov. 29, 1959
  • The Population Explosion and Church History - Dec. 13, 1959
  • A Christmas Story - Perhaps 1959
  • A New Year's Sermon - Dec. 27, 1959
  • God's Investment - Jan. 3, 1960
  • When They Wanted Wine - Jan. 17, 1960
  • God's Only Child - Jan. 24, 1960
  • The South Moves North - Jan. 31, 1960
  • The Varieties of Christ - Feb. 7, 1960
  • If Society Gets Better - Feb. 14, 1960
  • Rage in Utopia - Feb. 28, 1960
  • God the Void - Ash Wednesday - Mar. 2, 1960
  • Science as the Truth - Mar. 6, 1960
  • The Superstition and Reality of Morality as God Sanctioned - Mar. 13, 1960
Box 40
  • Equal Pay for Equal Work - Mar. 20, 1960
  • Superstition and Reality of Persons as Free Agents - Mar. 27, 1960
  • The Superstition and Reality of the Holy Spirit as Revelation - Apr. 3, 1960
  • The Superstition and Reality of Jesus as Savior - Palm Sunday - Apr. 10. 1960
  • Maundy Thursday - Apr. 14, 1960
  • Good Friday- Apr. 15, 1960
  • God the Eternal Love - Easter - Apr 17, 1960
  • God as Enemy - May 1, 1960
  • God as Friend - May 8, 1960
  • "Unitarian Development" - May 15, 1960
  • Down from the Summit - May 22, 1960
  • Untitled - May 29, 1960
  • The Gifts of the Spirit - June 5, 1960
  • 1st After Whitsunday - June 12, 1960
Box 41
  • Bridge Over Hell - First Church - June 26, 1960
  • The Battle for the Soul - Sep. 11, 1960
  • Installation of Lawrence Eston McGinty - Sep. 25, 1960
  • The Dignity of Guilt - Oct. 2, 1960
  • Prejudice and Politics - Oct. 9, 1960
  • Judgment and Mercy - Oct. 16, 1960
  • Nobody to Be - Oct. 23, 1960/ Squirrel Island, ME - Aug. 8, 1965/ Brunswick, ME - Aug 29, (1965?)
  • Music Hath Charms - Nov. 6, 1960
  • Approaches to Brotherhood - Nov. 20, 1960
  • Thanksgiving 1960
  • Faith, Doubt and the Everlasting Arms - Naval Station Chapel - Nov. 20, 1960 / Appleton Chapel - Jan. 29, 1961
  • It is High Time - Nov. 27, 1960 (See Leaflet for Nov. 20)
  • Know of Your Own Selves - Dec. 4, 1960
  • [Jesus Christ is always the same] - Appleton Chapel - Dec. 11, 1960
  • Do We Look for Another? - Dec. 11, 1960
Box 42
  • I Am Not the Christ - Dec. 18, 1960
  • Christmas / The Quality of our Joy - Dec. 25, 1960
  • New Year's Eve 1960-61
  • Then He Went Away - New Year's Day 1961
  • Warned in a Dream - Jan. 8, 1961
  • The Morality of Boston Politics - Jan. 15, 1961
  • A Great Tempest - Jan. 29, 1961
  • Judgment at Sundown - Feb. 5, 1961
  • Desert, Temple and Mountain - Feb. 12, 1961
  • Ash Wednesday - Feb. 15, 1961
  • The Trying of Faith - Feb. 26, 1961
  • Made Manifest by Light - Mar. 5, 1961
  • Whence Buy Bread? - Mar. 12, 1961
  • "Before Abraham Was, I Am" - Mar. 19, 1961
  • "The Multitude...Rejoice" - Palm Sunday - Mar. 26, 1961
Box 43
  • And There Came a Darkness - Good Friday - Mar. 31, 1961
  • If Ye Be Risen - Easter - Apr. 2, 1961
  • A Prudential Fortitude - Apr. 16, 1961
  • A New Virtue - Objectivity - Apr. 30, 1961
  • A New Commandment - May 7, 1961
  • Denominations on the Move - May 14, 1961 / Seattle, WA - May 6, 1962
  • The Works of God - May 21, 1961
  • The Eichmann Trial - June 4, 1961
  • Shuttle of Mischief - June 11, 1961
  • Ways to Survival - July 30, 1961
  • The Salvation of Mankind - Sep. 10, 1961
  • Unknown - Sep. 17, 1961
  • The "Humbly Bold" - Oct. 1, 1961
  • The Sacred and/or Secular - Oct. 8, 1961
  • Journey Into Majesty - Oct. 15, 1961
  • The Corruption of a City - Oct. 29, 1961
Box 44
  • The Appeals of History - Nov. 5, 1961
  • unknown - Nov. 12, 1961
  • The Late Happy Revolution - Nov. 19, 1961
  • Thanksgiving - Nov. 23, 1961
  • Back to the Cave, Man! - Nov. 26, 1961
  • Installation of James H. Curtis - Norfolk - Nov. 29, 1961
  • A Cracker Box and God - Dec. 3, 1961 / Northeastern Univ. - Dec. 13, 1961 / Wellesley College - Jan. 28, 1961 / Wells College
  • 275th Commencement. Sermon - Dec. 10, 1961
  • The Soviet Challenge - Dec. 16, 1961
  • The Unmanageable Rock - Dec. 17, 1961
  • In the Face of a Chill - Dec. 24, 1961
  • Christmas Day - Dec. 25, 1961
  • No More a Servant - Dec. 31, 1961
  • New Year's Eve - Dec. 31, 1961, 8pm
  • Two Rights Make a Wrong - Jan. 7, 1962
  • Go - Search Diligently - Jan. 14, 1962
  • Consider and Understand - Jan. 21, 1962
  • Lesson For Do-Gooders - Feb. 4, 1962
  • Finding God's Glory - Feb. 18, 1962
  • Having Heard the Word - Feb. 25, 1962
  • Ash Wednesday - 1962
  • From That Very Hour - Mar. 18, 1962
  • The Finger of God - Mar. 25, 1962
  • That These May Eat - Apr. 1, 1962
  • Lesson for Do-Gooders - Worcester - Apr. 8, 1962
  • The New Moon - Apr. 22, 1962
  • The Witness of God - Apr. 29, 1962
  • The Certainty of Uncertainty - May 13, 1962 / Community Church - Aug. 4, 1963 / Crane Chapel - Nov. 20, 1963
  • The Law of Liberty - May 27, 1962
  • The End at Hand - June 3, 1962
  • The Expected and Unexpected - Crane Chapel - June 9, 1962
  • Eat Bread with Joy - June 10, 1962
  • No Title - Sep. 16, 1962
  • On the Tearing Down of the Miami Church - Sep. 23, 1962
  • Glory in the Church - Oct. 7, 1962
  • The Uniting Nations - Oct. 21, 1962
  • The Free Church in a Changing World - Oct. 28, 1962
  • Many Are Called - Nov. 4, 1962 / Chestnut Hill, MA - Dec. 2, 1962
  • Strong in the Lord - Nov. 11, 1962
  • As We Forgive - Nov. 18, 1962 / Aug. 25, 1968
Box 45
  • Thanksgiving - 1962
  • The Beginning of the End - Nov. 25, 1962
  • The Dignity of Death - Dec. 9, 1962
  • Joy in the Gift - Dec. 16, 1962
  • Be Careful for Nothing - Dec. 23, 1962
  • Christmas - Dec. 25, 1962
  • When They Had Seen - Dec. 30, 1962
  • New Year's Eve - 1962
  • Heir of God - Jan. 6, 1963
  • The Many Are One - Jan. 13, 1963
  • Worthy? - Jan. 27, 1963 / Wellesley College - Feb. 17, 1963
  • What Manner of Man? - Feb. 3, 1963
  • To Judge the Earth - Feb. 10, 1963
  • Speaking as a Fool - Feb. 24, 1963
  • The Temptations of Man - Mar. 3, 1963
  • Count It all Joy - Mar. 10, 1963 / All Souls NYC - July 14, 1963
  • Holes in the Street - Mar. 17, 1963
  • Hast a Devil? - Mar. 24, 1963
  • The Shared Bread - Mar. 31, 1963
  • His Domain - Apr. 7, 1963
  • Good Friday - Apr. 12, 1963
  • The Eternal Life - Easter - Apr. 14, 1963
  • Devoted or Bought - Apr. 28, 1963
  • A Little While... - May 5, 1963
  • The Engrafted Word - May 12, 1963
  • Why Stand Gazing - May 26, 1963
  • Ye Shall Live - June 2, 1963
  • Born Again - June 9, 1963
  • unknown - Squirrel Island - Aug. 11, 1963
  • The Meaning of Boston's Segregation - Sep. 15, 1963
  • Seek Ye First - Sep. 29, 1963
  • Things Too Wonderful - Oct. 6, 1963
  • Why the Great Command Commands - Oct. 13, 1963
  • The Vanity of Mind - Oct. 20, 1963
  • Called to Glory - Oct. 27, 1963
  • The Importance of Being a Sinner - Nov. 3, 1963 / All Souls NYC - Aug. 22, 1965
  • And Forgive Us - Nov. 10, 1963
  • The Same Servant - Nov. 17, 1963
  • See Ye Not - NOT PREACHED - Nov. 24, 1963
  • President Kennedy - Nov. 24, 1963
  • Thanksgiving - 1963
  • These Things Begin - Dec. 8, 1963
  • He That Should Come - Dec. 15, 1963
  • Songs, for Sighing - Dec. 22, 1963
  • Christmas Day - Dec. 25, 1963
  • They Made Known - Dec. 29, 1963
  • Wise Men - Jan. 5, 1964
  • The Measure of Faith - Jan. 12, 1964
  • Water Made Wine - Jan. 19, 1964
  • Song out of Silence - Feb. 2, 1964
Box 46
  • The Greatest - Feb. 9, 1964
  • Ash Wednesday - Feb. 12, 1964
  • Grace...in Vain - Feb. 16, 1964
  • The Works of Faith - Feb. 23, 1964
  • The Last State - Mar. 1, 1964
  • The "Ah" of Things - Mar. 4, 1964 / Portsmouth, NH - July 9, 1961 / recycled from 1957
  • Evermore Filled - Mar. 8, 1964
  • Not of God - Mar. 15, 1964
  • Palm Sunday - Mar. 22, 1964
  • Good Friday - Mar. 27, 1964 / April 8, 1966
  • The Way Everlasting - Easter - Mar. 29, 1964
  • What Glory - Apr. 12, 1964
  • Again, A Little While - Apr. 19, 1964
  • If I Go Not Away - Apr. 26, 1964
  • Because Ye Have Loved - May 3, 1964
  • They Believed Not - May 10, 1964
  • The Splendid Wayfaring - GA, California - May 16, 1964
  • With One Accord in One Place - May 24, 1964 / May 29, 1966
  • If They Hear Not - May 31, 1964
  • Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day - Baccalaureate Belmont Hill School - June 4, 1964 / St. Mark's - May 1967
  • Yet There Is Room - June 7, 1964
  • Joy in Heaven - June 14, 1964 / June 11, 1967
  • Mercy and Forgiveness - Sep. 20, 1964
Box 47
  • Such Power! - Oct. 4, 1964
  • They Made Light of It - Oct. 11, 1964
  • The Man Believed - Oct. 18, 1964
  • As We Forgive - Oct. 25, 1964
  • The Communion of Saints - Nov. 1, 1964
  • Vice in Politics - Nov. 8, 1964
  • The Grace of God in Truth - Nov. 15, 1964
  • Devices and Desires - Nov. 23, 1964
  • Go Your Way into His Gates - Thanksgiving - Nov. 26, 1964
  • Into the Temple - Dec. 6, 1964
  • Prepare the Way - Dec. 13, 1964
  • Voice in the Wilderness - Dec. 20, 1964
  • The Life Was the Light - Dec. 25, 1964
  • Angels Gone Away - Dec. 27, 1964
  • New Year's Eve - Dec. 31, 1964
  • Hidden Talent - Jan. 3, 1965
  • Intermarriage - Jan. 17, 1965
  • Say Nothing to Anybody - Jan. 24, 1965
  • Little Faith - Jan. 31, 1965
  • Both Grow Together - Feb. 7, 1965
  • Common Sense, Science and God - Feb. 14, 1965 / Tulsa, Oklahoma - Feb. 21, 1965
  • In the Beginning, The Word - Feb. 28, 1965
  • Ash Wednesday - Mar. 3, 1965
  • God the Holy - Mar. 7, 1965
  • God the Creator - Mar. 14, 1965
  • God the Omnipotent - Mar. 21, 1965
Box 48
  • God the Omnipresent - Mar. 28, 1965
  • God the Judge - Apr. 4, 1965
  • God the Loving - Apr. 11, 1965
  • Good Friday - Apr. 16, 1965
  • God in Time and Eternity - Apr. 18, 1965
  • A Journey to Jerusalem - May 9, 1965
  • If I Go Not - May 16, 1965
  • Tradition and a New Revelation - May 23, 1965
  • The Fire of Faith - June 6, 1965
  • God the Omniscient - June 13, 1965
  • Adlai Stevenson: Enlightened Conservative - July 25, 1965
  • A New Heaven and a New Earth - Oct. 3, 1965
  • Different But Equal - Oct. 10, 1965
  • Things Not Seen - Oct. 17, 1965
  • Glamour or Blessedness - Oct. 24, 1965
  • Precious Promises - Oct. 31, 1965
  • Vietnam and the Demonstrators - Nov. 7, 1965
  • As We Forgive - Nov. 14, 1965
  • And Went Their Way - Nov. 21, 1965
Box 49
  • Thanksgiving - Nov. 25, 1965
  • God is Dead, Long Live God - Dec. 5, 1965 / All Souls NYC - Oct. 30, 1966
  • Stewards of the Mysteries - Dec. 12, 1965
  • Those Things Learned ... Do - Dec. 19, 1965
  • In a Shepherd's Cave - Dec. 25, 1965
  • Servant or Son? - Dec. 26, 1965
  • The Importance of Time - Jan. 2, 1966
  • The Fellowship of the Mystery - Jan. 9, 1966
  • Know What to Do? - Jan. 16, 1966
  • No Title (fragment) - Northeastern - Jan. 19, 1966
  • Choosing What to Be - Jan. 23, 1966
  • Wind and Sea Obey Him - Jan. 30, 1966
  • What Manner of Love - Feb. 13, 1966
  • When Forgiveness Seems Unjust - Feb. 20, 1966
  • Tempted of the Devil - Feb. 27, 1966
  • The Difficulties of Being Better - Mar. 13, 1966
  • Twelve Baskets - Mar. 20, 1966
  • Mediator of the New - Mar. 27, 1966
  • Joy Seen Through Tears - Apr. 3, 1966
Box 50
  • He Is Risen - Apr. 10, 1966
  • Christmas Story - Dec. 25, 1966
  • [Good Friday] - Mar. 24, 1967
  • Pluralism and the Free Church - July 2, 1968
  • The Temptation - Feb. 23, 1969
  • Ministration of the Spirit - Aug. 24, 1969
  • Fellowship in Freedom - Sep. 21, 1969
  • Free Church - Free People - Oct. 23, 1969
  • Church in Doubt - Mar. 8, 1970, June 21, 1970 / Plandome, NY / Charlottesville, VA
  • Testing of Faith - Birmingham, ALA - Nov. 15, 1970 / Athens, GA - Oct. 25, 1970
  • The Future of an Amazing Past - St. Paul, MN - Oct. 17, 1971
  • Fellowship in Freedom - Berkeley - Feb. 11, 1973 / Worcester - Oct. 27, 1974
  • Fellowship in Freedom - Brunswick, ME - Feb. 2, 1975
  • Final Sermons - Sheepscot / Alna, ME / Weddings, Funerals, misc. services - 1970s

Sermons, N.D.—Alphabetic Arrangement

  • Accidents Don't Happen
  • Advantages of Organized Intelligence
  • Alternatives to Selfishness
  • American Soviet Meetings
  • The Animal Named City
  • Are Unitarians Christian?
  • Are You Afraid for Democracy?
  • The Art of Dealing With Evil
  • Before Last Judgment
  • Being in Christ Jesus Glorified With Him (?)
  • Believing in the Better
  • Be True to Your Self
  • Builders of Democracy
  • Can We Plan the Future?
  • Christmas Carol
  • The Church and Life
  • The Communion of Saints - Among Us Sinners
  • The Condition of Man: Born in Paradise
  • The Condition of Man: Dreading and Hoping All
  • The Condition of Man: "Thine Inestimable Love"
  • Conscience as Voice of God?
  • Cooperative Religious Community
  • Cornerstone of Civilization
  • The Cult of Ignorance
  • Dangers in Superiority
  • Democracy - After This War
  • The Difficulty of Community
  • The Dignity of Guilt
  • Do We Want Justice?
  • Does the Bible Sanction War?
  • Education in Democracy
  • Escape into Sanity
  • Ethics of Press and Radio
  • Expectation
  • A Fable - 1960
  • Facts
Box 51
  • Family Conference Not a Lecture
  • The Farce of Sunday Morality
  • Fascism, Communism, Democracy, and Religion in the Future
  • Fascism or Justice
  • Ordination - "The Fire of Faith"
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls
  • Henry Ford - and the Tragedy of an Era
  • The Freedom to Choose
  • Sigmund Freud - October, a month after his death
  • God's Investment
  • Growing a Free Church
  • Growing Old
  • High and Hearty Expectation
  • High Religion
  • Hope Springs Eternal - 1939
  • How to Get Ahead in Life
  • I Want to be a Minister
  • If God Wrote the Bible
  • If Society Gets Better
  • In Account With Life
  • Institutions
  • The Intelligence to Know Your Own Cross
  • Is Progress a Myth
  • Is Sin Old-Fashioned
  • Isolation and International Responsibility - 1937
  • [Thomas Jefferson]
  • Jesus - "Foolish" Alternative to War
  • Jesus in the Wilderness of 1940
  • Jesus - The Great Failure
  • The Joy of Communication
  • The Judgment of Christmas
  • Learning by Experience
  • The Liberal Tradition Points to the Future
  • Living Memorial
  • The Long View
  • The Lost Art of Being Honest
  • Man Who Didn't Like People - c. 1941-42
  • The Measure of Life
  • Members One of Another
  • The Method of Theology
  • The Mind of the South
  • Miracle of Life
  • Modern Man's Worship
  • More Excuses for Inaction
  • Mothers of Humanity
  • Must Religion be Superstitious?
  • National Survival and the Sinews of Peace
  • The Need for a Week-Day Religion
  • Need for Inclusive Philosophy
  • A New Chapter
  • New Year's Nonsense
  • A New Year's Sermon
  • Of Loaves and Fishes - Little Boar's Head, NH
  • Of Men and Women - I
  • Of Men and Women - II
  • On This Wise Showed He
  • One Time at Least - glad to be a minister
Box 52
  • Ordination - Candidate: Justin (?), undated, Unitarian Fellowship of Burlington
  • Our Father
  • The Paradox of Prayer
  • Passivism, Non-Resistance and Force
  • The Peace We Will Get
  • "Police Force" - first version, with outline notes - Miami
  • "Police Force" - Miami
  • Preparing for the Best
  • Preparing for the Worst
  • The Price of Peace
  • Propaganda
  • Psychology of Prejudice
  • The Religion of Openness to Oneself
  • The Religion of Joy
  • Religion, the Flag, and the Enemies of Democracy
  • Religion Versus Death
  • Revelation in Religion
  • Rhythm of Reality
  • Roles, Images and Being
  • Roll Away the Stone
  • Roosevelt and World Freedom - c. 1941
  • The Sabbath for Man
  • Sanctified Selfishness
  • "Science as the Truth"
  • The Schema of Your Mind
  • Selling Integrity
  • Short History of Unitarianism
  • "The Sinews of Peace"
  • A Sound from Heaven
  • The Spire of Kings Chapel
  • Standing in History
  • A Story That Will Live - Barth/White
  • The Tassel of Jesus
  • Tests of Adulthood
  • Theologs Deciding to Sing
  • "This Tragic Glory" one of 2 texts
  • "This Tragic Glory" second of 2 texts
  • -- To Men of Good Will
  • [Tolerance]
  • The Tragedy of Plenty
  • Two Most Immoral Books - 1941
  • The Two Worlds of Unitarianism
  • The Universe of Every Man
  • Unpopular Psychology
  • The Unsung Goodness
  • The Varieties of Christ
  • Wanted - A Really Catholic Church
  • Wanted: Individuals
  • War with Soviet Union Probable - Debate - Barth-no / Andrews-yes
  • A Way Through Worry
  • What Goodness Is
  • What's Behind Peacetime Conscription?
Box 53
  • This fall we begin the 4th year of our church family life - Fall 1942
  • Those persons are wrong who say that people do not want to give of themselves
  • When Is a Liberal?
  • Why Is a War?
  • Why They Do Not Go To Church
  • Why We Fight This War
  • ...Building a Church
  • untitled [Heaven]
  • untitled [Minds]
  • untitled [Neutrality]
  • All persons, especially all liberals, are interested in the future of human freedoms
  • As a Boy of Twelve...
  • If You Could Talk With God
  • Last Sunday - understanding situation before acting on it
  • Now...Greatest of all Mysteries a man can comprehend
  • Progress is not Automatic
  • Until recently...every person...has had a job
  • When the Spring rains come...
  • While We are Remembering Mothers Day
  • Whom the Gods would destroy, they first make mad
  • [Football] (unfinished)
  • __________; fragment
  • __________; fragment
  • __________; fragment
  • __________; fragment
  • __________; title missing (communist doctrine)
  • Ash Wednesday; fragment
  • fragments
  • fragment
  • Marriage Ceremony - Charles _______ and Ann _______
  • Memorial Service - Helen Thomas Warren
  • Memorial Service - Gorham Brooks
  • Memorial Service - H.H. Bundy - Oct. 9, 1963
  • Special Service - The Family of Man - May 23, 1958
Box 54
  • Photographs of Joseph Barth
Box 55
  • Joseph Barth --Diploma, Meadville
  • Joseph Barth --Diploma, Tufts University

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