[43] His answer to the committee, in which he declines their invitation, is dated at Boston, August 14, 1828.
[44] Gospel Luminary, Vol. III, p. 95.
[45] The name of his residence in Mendon.
[46] Bible Doctrine of God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, Atonement and Faith; to which is prefixed an Essay on Natural Theology and the Truth of Revelation. By Wm. Kinkade. Revised by J. Badger.
[47] Pall., Vol. II, p. 287. A general convention from the different States.
[48] In the town of Broadalbin.
[49] Now Fulton County.
[50] Pall., Vol. II, p. 387.
[51] The leading men in starting the general association and the publication of the Christian Palladium were O. E. Morrill, J. Badger, J. Bailey, B. Miles, and others. O. E. Morrill was particularly active and prominent in this useful movement.
[52] The debate with R. D. Owen, as it was called, was evidently no debate. No direct issue was formed between them, and there was no direct conflict of mind with mind on any essential question. It was mostly the rare phenomenon of two men talking alternately in the same place on different subjects.