Excerpt from Five Points of Faith On the walls of many Unitarian churches and Sunday-school rooms hangs a large square of card-board, bearing these words: - Our Faith. We believe in The Fatherhood of God; The Brotherhood of Man; The Leadership of Jesus; Salvation by Character; The Progress of Mankind Onward and Upward Forever "Such will be the theology of the Church of the Future, which will be emancipated from ritualism, dogmatism, and sectarianism, and will possess more and more of the mind and heart of Christ Jesus." So wrote James Freeman Clarke, who formulated what he called these "Five Points of the New Theology" in a sermon preached May 10, 1885, in the Church of the Disciples, Boston, and printed and reprinted in America and England. The title presents it as a contrast to those Five Points of Calvinism "which have been the main and essential doctrines of Orthodoxy in the past." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.