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A Man In Search Of New Saints, Earl Clement Davis

Publications, 1933-1953

In this writing, Earl Davis is attending the Tercentenary of Harvard University, listening to President James B. Conant ask "Is there in our time an authentic, unstudied, and spontaneous urge to truth?". This question sends his thoughts to another time, years back, when Davis sat in an office of a large department store at sundown, listening to another man's life story. In prose, he retells the story as it was told to him. The man talking to Davis that day was Milton T. Garvin of Lancaster, PA. Orphaned and possessing no formal education, he went onto become a successful businessman …

Suggested Thoughts On The Question: Can We Escape Both Traditionalism And Liberalism, O. A. Geiseman

Concordia Theological Monthly

History reveals that the visible Church of God has periodically tended to decline and degenerate. Think how true that is of the period from Adam to Noah; Noah to Abraham; Abraham to Moses; Moses to Elijah; Elijah to the Captivity; Ezra to Christ; Apostolic Age to the Reformation; Reformation to our own day.

Order Of Worship For Children's Sunday [Sermon Notes], Earl Clement Davis

Sermons, 1933-1953

For the years 1938 through 1947 Davis collected his sermon notes in more-or-less annual hand-bound booklets. Most of these booklets were well-ordered and inclusive of only sermons from one particular year. The exception was the booklet of sermon notes for 1941, which was out of chronological order, and included sermon notes from multiple other years, 1934 through 1945. In all, only 30 of the 41 sermon notes were from 1941. The notes transcribed here were found in that collection.

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Democracy Versus Authority In Church (And State), Earl Clement Davis, Carl Heath Kopf

Manuscripts, 1933-1953

This address, written with Carl Heath Kopf, minister of the Mt. Vernon Church of Boston, was delivered at the Massachusetts Convention of Congregational Ministers in King’s Chapel, Boston. They argue that the direction of history is from Authority, Revelation, and Obedience to Freedom, Discovery, and Consent. They discuss early efforts of the Pilgrims in the creation of a congregational focused church.

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Norman Hapgood, Editor [The Christian Register], Earl Clement Davis

Publications, 1933-1953

A brief note on the appointment of Norman Hapgood as incoming Editor of the Christian Register. At this time, Davis was the President of the Board of Trustees for the Christian Register.

The Congregational Genius Of Our Churches, Earl Clement Davis

Manuscripts, 1933-1953

An opening presentation Earl Davis gave to an Institute for Ministers that he co-organized in Petersham, MA. We have yet to confirm the date of the Institute or its other components.

This work is Davis's most comprehensive statement of the Congregational Polity's history of development, whereby each individual church congregation has the authority to establish religious practice as their congregation sees fit, including electing their minister. His history starts with the Pilgrims and Puritans, continues through the conflicts of the late 1600s, and into the early 19th century with the appointment of Henry Ware, Professor of Divinity at Harvard, and …