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Even in his advocacy of social and public reforms, which was strenuous and sincere, he delighted so to urge his cause as to inflame prejudice and opposition against it. With this temper it is not strange that when he came to enunciate his departure from some of the accepted tenets of his brethren, who were habitually reverent in their discipleship toward Jesus Christ, he should do this in a way to offend and shock. The immediate reaction of the Unitarian clergy from the statements of his sermon, in 1841, on
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The Transient and the Permanent in Christianity, in which the supernatural was boldly discarded from his belief, was so general and so earnest as to give occasion to Channing's exclamation,
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Now we have a Unitarian orthodoxy!