Introduction

Biography

Abel was the son of Ab­ner Tho­mas and Es­ther Wor­rall.

A Uni­ver­sal­ist min­is­ter, his most im­port­ant pas­tor­ate was at the Lom­bard Street Church, Phi­la­del­phia, 1830–39 and 1848-63.

Works

• The Ship­wreck of Par­tial­ism, 1831
• The Beau­ties of Ar­min­io-Cal­vin­ism, 1833
• Mistakes Con­cern­ing De­ity, 1834
• A Dis­cuss­ion of the Con­joint Ques­tion, Is the Doc­trine of End­less Pun­ish­ment Taught in the Bi­ble? (New York: P. Price, 1835)
• Strictures on Re­li­gious Tests (Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: J. Ri­chards, 1838)
• Hymns of Zi­on (Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: 1839)
• Analysis and Con­fu­ta­tion of Mill­er’s Theo­ry of the End of the World in 1843, 1840
• The Low­ell Tracts, with Tho­mas B. Thay­er, 1840
• The Low­ell Of­fer­ing, a li­ter­ary ma­ga­zine
• Allegories and Di­vers Day Dreams, 1841
• Mourners Com­fort­ed, 1850
• Civilization and Ro­man Ca­tho­li­cism, a Re­view of O. A. Brown­son’s Four Lec­tures, 1851
• Autobiography of Rev. Ab­el C. Tho­mas (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: J. M. Ush­er, 1852)
• Sinners, Ser­vants, and Saints: the Re­li­gions of Po­li­cy and Prin­ci­ple Con­trast­ed, 1853
• One Doz­en Tracts for the Pe­ople, with Tho­mas B. Thay­er, 1856
• The Go­spel of Sla­ve­ry (New York: Tho­mas W. Strong, 1864)
• A Cen­tu­ry of Uni­vers­al­ism in Phi­la­del­phia and New York (Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Coll­ins, print­er, 1872)