spiritual power

and led a great

advance toward the

Christian ideals

William Ellery Channing MDCCLXXX - MDCCCXLII

He breathed into

theology a humane

spirit and pro-

claimed anew the

divinity of man.

(Text from reverse)

I see the

marks of God in the

Heavens and the Earth, but

how much more in a liberal

intellect, in magnanimity, in

unconquerable rectitude,

in a philanthropy which

forgives every wrong,

and which never despairs

of the cause of Christ

and human virtue. I do

and I must reverence

human nature. I bless it

for its kind affections. I

honor it for its achievements

in science and in art and

still more for its examples

of heroic and saintly virtue.

These are marks of a divine

origin and the pledges of

a celestial inheritance

and I thank God that my

own lot is bound up with

that of the human race.

William Eller Channing.

The gift of

John Foster