Letter from Mary E. Robbins, Lynn, [Massachusetts], to Anne Warren Weston, 1839 Jan[uary] 11
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Mary E. Robbins writes to Anne Warren Weston in regards to the conversation at her house which left "unlovely impressions" on Anne's mind. She has felt the deepest sympathy for Emerson and Alcott. She gathered her own notions from St. John's Gospel and says, "not that I love Paul less than others, but I love Jesus more, and must think that Paul was not wholly regenerate." She advises not to identify spirtualism with materialism. She discusses her ideas and comments, "if this be atheism, all I have to say is, Jesus was an atheist." She writes that her faith is the "stronghold of my abolitionism."