Fifty Notable Years

Part memoir, part collective portrait: Adams, a Universalist minister for half a century, surveys the denomination's ministry from the 1830s to the 1880s with biographical sketches of the preachers he had known — famous and obscure alike. Written from personal acquaintance, it preserves faces, voices, and pulpit styles that formal histories leave out, and is a principal source for the lives of dozens of nineteenth-century Universalist clergy.

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