When the standard of dissent is set up in any community, and men are invited to it in the name of liberality, nothing can hinder its becoming a rallying-point for all sorts of disaffected souls, not only the liberal, but the loose.

The story of the controversy belongs to later chapters of this book.

It is safe to say at this point that the early orthodox fears have at least not been fully confirmed by the sequel up to this date.

It was one of the most strenuous of the early disputants against the "liberal" opinions[227:1] who remarked in his later years, concerning the Unitarian saints, that it seemed as if their exclusive contemplation of Jesus Christ in his human character as the example for our imitation had wrought in them an exceptional beauty and Christlikeness of living.

As for the Universalists, the record of their fidelity, as a body, to the various interests of social morality is not surpassed by that of any denomination.