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Willard Child
Willard Child was a nineteenth-century Vermont clergyman whose theological contributions reflected the religious and political concerns of antebellum New England. His sermon before the Vermont General Assembly exemplifies the tradition of ministerial engagement with civic affairs, demonstrating how religious leaders of his era sought to influence public policy and moral discourse through appeals to Christian principles. Child's work represents an important intersection of ecclesiastical authority and democratic governance in early American religious history.
From Sermon Preached Before the General Assembly of the State of Vermont
fondly he broods over it, that this great Being, who is so mighty in counsel and so wonderful in working, is eminently the God of Israel ; and, in the language of a recent commentator, " will work spiritual changes " corresponding to these natural phenomena, for the " benefit of the people whom he has entrusted with " the revelation of his will." But if such were the views and feelings of the Jew, with his incomplete revelation, and his system of worship, which was chiefly only the shadow of good things to come, how much more should similar views and feelings be cherished by a people who are blessed with the fullorbed revelation, and the spiritual worship of the christian dispensation; — a dispensation in which "life and immortality are brought to light," and not the consecrated hierarch alone, but every worshiper, is permitted, through " the offering…
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