Mayo, A. D. The Balance: or Moral Arguments for Universalism (1847)

Mayo, A. D. The Balance: or Moral Arguments for Universalism. Boston: B. B. Mussey and A. Tompkins, 1847. [7080] Green cloth decorated in blind & gilt, gilt rubbed with some loss, small 3 x 4 1/2 inches, all page edges gilt, yellow waxed end papers, 155 pp. plus 4 pp. adverts, tight. Light foxing, rear cover with light water-wrinkling to cloth. Good. Hardcover. "In the following discourses we have endeavored to present, in a popular manner, the moral argument for Universalism...We have...confined ourselves to the argument from the Spirit of the New Testament, the Paternity of God, and the facts of Human Nature." - Preface.Amory Dwight Mayo (1823-1907), b. Warwick, MA; d. District of Columbia. He was a Universalist minister, said to have been friends with Longfellow and Whittier. He was for thirty-five years a nonresident professor of administration and church polity at Meadville Theological School. He was a leader of the Christian Amendment movement with the goal of having the Bibl