Charles Spear
Charles Spear (1803-1863; some catalogs give his birth year as 1801) was a Boston-born Universalist minister and reformer who studied for the ministry under Hosea Ballou 2d and served several Massachusetts congregations. He devoted most of his career to prison reform and the abolition of capital punishment, publishing Essays on the Punishment of Death (1844) and editing the reform journal The Prisoner's Friend from 1845 to 1857. He died in Washington, D.C., in 1863 while serving as a chaplain during the Civil War.
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Names and titles of the Lord Jesus Christ (1841)
A devotional study of the scriptural names of Christ by Charles Spear, Universalist minister and the era's most persistent campaigner against capital punishment — the author of Essays on the Punishment of Death and publisher of The Prisoner's Friend. The gentleness of this book and the reform career were one piece: a Christ of restoring love left no room for the gallows.
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