Rose, Henry R. Good Sense in Religion: Eleven Lectures. Boston and Chicago: Universalist Publishing House, 1894. First Edition. [11232]
Blue cloth, grubby with old stains, 8 1/4 x 6 inches, remnants of bookplate on front paste-down. 239 [1] clean pp. Ex-library with removed spine label, a bit shaken with nothing detached. Fair. Hardcover.
"Printed at the Journal Office, Lewiston, Me." on the copyright page.
Eleven lectures in which reason is placed before revelation, and the doctrines of the Bible rejected as unreasonable. Instead, Rose teaches that God is a loving parent to all, God is not angry with anyone, the theory of Evolution is true, Jesus was the great Humanitarian, Endless Punishment is not taught in the Bible, it is not possible for sin to destroy the sinner, etc.
Henry Reuben Rose (1866=-950), b. Philadelphia; d. New York City, by falling or jumping out of the sixth-floor window at Doctors Hospital on East Eighty-seventh Street. He had been a lecturer and writer for the more liberal party of the Universalist Church since 1891. He had been educated at Tufts College, Harvard University, and Tufts Divinity School, holding several pastorates in New England before accepting the call to the Church of the Redeemer in Newark. He was a trustee of the University of Newark and for twenty-five years vice president of the Newark Bureau of Associated Charities. - Death notice, The New York Times, January 25, 1950.
