Practical Error, and the Test of True Holiness: A Sermon, delivered at the Ordination of Rev. Josiah Moore, as pastor of the First Church and Society in Athol, December 8, 1830

Removed, new acid-free wrapper, 8 x 5 inches, 39 pages, dark stains. The text is Hebrews 12:14, "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord."The subject of my discourse, you will already anticipate, is practical error. I wish to shew the manner in which the great truth of the necessity of personal virtue has been evaded, and then to point a test by which we may detect its influence."Rev. Hill says that holiness is "true excellence - disinterested goodness - an uniform desire - a constant endeavor - a general habit of doing right from a right motive." This is an example of Unitarian philosophy in which holiness is defined as good habits and amiable dispositions, merely "a general habit of doing right".Rev. Alonzo Hill (1800-1871), graduated from Harvard College (1822) and from Harvard Divinity School (1826). He was the minister of the Second Parish in Worcester (Unitarian), Massachusetts, from 1827 until his death.