Editing Jonathan Baldwin Turner (section)

==Later years==
[[File:Jonathan Baldwin Turner as an older man.png|thumb|left|upright=0.7|Turner as an older man|alt=An old man in profile, facing to the left. He has a very bushy beard.]]

After the passing of the Morrill Land-Grant Act, Jonathan Baldwin Turner opposed the power of corporations, which he described as a conflict between the "natural" and "artificial man".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carriel |first=Mary Turner |url=http://archive.org/details/cu31924030583300 |title=The life of Jonathan Baldwin Turner |date=1911 |others=Cornell University Library |page=245}}</ref> In addition, Turner was a trustee for the mentally ill in Illinois' hospitals.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Letter from David S. Gregg to Jonathan Baldwin Turner, January 1, 1852 |url=https://digital.library.illinois.edu/items/ef8b21e0-8a51-013a-c212-02d0d7bfd6e4-a |access-date=March 17, 2024 |website=Digital Collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library}}</ref>

As an ordained minister, Turner was affiliated early on with two Congregational churches but his beliefs became increasingly unorthodox.<ref name="papersofabrahamlincoln" /> He wrote religious tracts championing the [[Liberalism|liberal]] teachings of Christ while criticizing [[Catholicism]], [[Mormonism]], and the [[Presbyterianism|Presbyterian]] administration of Illinois College, where he was a professor. Turner believed Christ's Creed is broad enough to save all of humanity; he wrote three books on Christ and about his views on Mormonism.<ref name="Papers">{{Cite web |title=Turner, Jonathan Baldwin. Papers, 1823–1924 |url=https://archon.library.illinois.edu/ihlc/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=333 |access-date=March 15, 2024 |website=Illinois History and Lincoln Collections Manuscript Collections Database |language=en}}</ref>