Over the River

'Pleasant walks into the valley of shadows, and beyond' — Thayer's book of consolation, published in the midst of the Civil War when nearly every household had its dead. The scholarly author of the Theology of Universalism here writes for mourners, assembling the grounds of hope for reunion and the universal homecoming beyond the river. With Quinby's Heaven Our Home and Chapin's Crown of Thorns it forms this collection's shelf of Universalist consolation literature.

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