A Voice to Youth

A manual of counsel for young men and women by the Universalist minister of Auburn, New York — the same John M. Austin who met the Methodists in formal debate (his 1848 contest with David Holmes is in this collection). Austin covers education, occupation, amusements, courtship, character, and religion, showing the denomination's pastors competing with orthodox advice literature on its own ground: morality grounded in a Father's love rather than the fear of hell.

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