@book{39, keywords = {Christian Universalism, religious schisms, teenagers, families}, author = {Jane Lippitt Patterson}, title = {Out of Sight}, abstract = {Wesley Sanford is a rebellious teen who first rejects religion, and then becomes enamored of Christian Universalism, causing a minor scandal in Methodist Otsego, New York. The Sunday school teacher, Horace Ryder, declares Wesley an “infidel,” complicating Wesley’s courtship of Horace’s daughter, Mercy. The Sanfords resettle in the Allegheny River Valley’s Vinetown.}, year = {1883}, pages = {352 p.}, publisher = {Universalist Publishing House}, address = {Boston}, note = {Oil City is disguised as Vinetown. First appeared as a serial in the Universalist Repository. }, language = {English}, }