Anarchy, The Destiny Of Him Who Obeys, A Sermon Delivered January 19, 1913 by Reverend Albert C. Dieffenbach In The First Unitarian Congregational Society Of Hartford, Conn.

Unity Club, Hartford, CT, 1913; First Edition; 8vo, 16 pages; paper wraps. Thoughtful sermon by Unitarian minister Albert Charles Dieffenbach (1876-1963), based upon the scriptural quote from Timothy 8:9, "We know that the law is good if we use it lawfully, knowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient". Dieffenbach thus begins by saying, "It is my purpose this morning to proceed with great care in this difficult and delicate subject, for the time has come for us to learn not only the wisdom of the Scripture as we have read it, but the gross misconception and practice of a vast number of people in our common life who think themselves to be in greater or less degree anarchists in the pure sense of that term, but who are really only ignorant, dangerous and lawless persons against whom we should be prepared to range ourselves in the name of a free Nation and in the name of that ideal condition where we shall live by the spirit and not by the letter, which is the true meaning of anarchy, — a state to which, I believe, the world is now, as it has always been, tending: a state in the midst of which the choicest souls of this and many preceding ages, live and move and have their being." The delicate balance between law and individual rights, the distinction between "spiritual anarchism" and that of the mob, and the ungratefulness of those who come to this country only to vilify and position themselves against it, are some of the subjects covered at length in this probing and cogent dissertation, more relevant today than when first uttered. Fine, clean, crisp, bright, corners sharp, no ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind.