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title: 'Sermon Denouncing ‘Free Love’ Without Marriage'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
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authors:
- 'James William Charles Pennington'
date: 1855-10-26
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Family, Marriage, and Roles of Men and Women'
- 'Children and Youth'
- 'Character and Conduct of Life'
- 'Sermons'
scriptures:
- 'John 4'
- 'Ephesians 5'
- '1 Corinthians 7'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/pennington-1855-sermon-denouncing-free-love-without-marriage
---

# Sermon Denouncing ‘Free Love’ Without Marriage

1855 sermon by J.W.C. Pennington condemning the Free Love movement as a threat to marriage, social order, youth, and salvation; urges vigilance and moral resistance.

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