Minister, author,
editor, publisher, and educator, Sawyer was the founder and
editor of The Christian Messenger, a weekly newspaper
(which later become The Universalist Union, and then
The Christian Ambassador).
Sawyer was given many
honors during his lifetime, including a Doctorate in
Sacred Theology (S.T.D.)
from Harvard in 1850, and
a Doctorate of Laws (LL.D.) from Tufts
in 1894.
His books include:
Letters to the Rev. Stephen Remington in Review of His
“Lectures on Universalism” (1839); Review of Reverend
E. F. Halfield’s “Universalism as it Is” (1843);
Memoirs of Rev. Stephen R. Smith (1852); The Doctrine
of Endless Misery (1853) A Discussion of the Doctrine
of Universal Salvation (1854); Who is Our God, the
Son or the Father? (1859); and his most well know work
Endless Punishment in the Very Words of its Advocates
(1880).
A substantial memoir,
The Life of Thomas J. Sawyer, was written by Richard
Eddy in 1900.
