On Sunday, the sermon was on the history of our faith, the Unitarian Universalist kind. One of the things that led people to search out a new faith was the hell and damnation sermons of the early preachers in the New World. As an illustration of the types of sermons the people heard back in that day, Rev. Dana read a portion of Jonathan Edward's sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." Tonight in history class, the instructor read a portion of Jonathan Edward's sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." The same portion. I can't remember ever before hearing any portion of anything Jonathan Edwards said or wrote.
After class, I stayed to mention this oddity to the instructor, and found out that she is Quaker. I had no idea that Quaker's still existed. The things one learns when at school....
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