William Channing Gannett

William Channing Gannett (March 13, 1840 – December, 1923) was an American Unitarian minister and hymnwriter. Quotes The poem hangs on the berry-bush,    When comes the poet's eye; The street begins to masquerade    Where Shakespeare passes by. The Christ sees white in Judas’ heart,    And loves his traitor well; The God, to angel his new heaven,    Explores his lowest hell. "We See as We Are", in Unity: Freedom, Fellowship and Character in Religion, vol. 16, no. 5 (October 3, 1885), p. 58 Collected, and revised, in The Thought of God in Hymns and Poems, 2nd ser. (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1894), p. 114: The poem hangs on the berry-bush,    When comes the poet's eye; The street begins to masquerade,    When Shakespeare passes by. The Christ sees white in Judas’ heart,    And loves his traitor well; And God, to angel his new Heaven,    Explores his lowest Hell. The Western Unitarian Conference conditions its fellowship on no dogmatic tests, but welcomes all who wish to join it to establish truth, righteousness, and love in the world. Motion, carried by by a majority of thirty-four to ten, at the Western Unitarian Conference meeting in Cincinnati (1886); George Willis Cooke, Unitarianism in America (Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1902), pp. 225–6 Freedom, the method in religion, in place of Authority; Fellowship, the spirit in religion, in place of Sectarianism; Character, the test in religion, in place of Ritual or Creed; Service, or Salvation of Others, the aim in religion, in place of Salvation of Self. "The New Orthodoxy, the New Unitarianism, and the New Universialism—Should they be Three or One?", Adddress Delivered in the Tent Evangelist, Buffalo (June 28, 1900); Unity: Freedom, Fellowship and Character in Religion, vol. 48, no. 5 (October 3, 1901), p. 71 See also Frederick Lucian Hosmer External links Category:Hymnwriters from the United States Category:Unitarians from the United States Category:1840 births Category:1923 deaths