...for seven generations; and within his single life the early days as preacher and the later days as sacer avtes were bound each to each by natural piety. So were those of John Gorham Palfrey, George Ripley , and Octavius Brooks Frothingham, and of such clerical families as the Channings, the Abbotts, the Wares, the Beechers, the Muhlenbergs, and the Dwights, whose pietas, priestly, educational, juristic...