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

• Encyclopedic article on William Channing Gannett on Wikipedia