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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, V: the call to preach (search)
h a special set of young men. These views were reinforced by a strong appeal from his class to rejoin them. He heard the class exercises when his special friends, Johnson, —whom he calls my young hero and prophet,— Longfellow, and O. B. Frothingham were graduated, and Johnson's oration on this occasion had a profound effect upon him. He felt a strong desire to speak himself on next Visitation Day on the Relation of the Clergy to Reform. In August, 1846, Higginson had a long talk with Dr. Francis, then dean of the school, about reentering his class, which resulted in a letter to the Faculty of Theology, applying for readmission. In this the writer, speaking of himself in the third person, explains his reason for withdrawal—the need of perfect freedom:— This freedom might have been destructive to others: it was the breath of life to him. He has now built up a Credo for himself, whose essential and leading points are so strong and clear that he can patiently leave minor ones
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
ctetus, 263, 329, 365, 369, 409. Faneuil Hall. meetings at, 144. Farragut, Admiral, 260, 261. Fayal and the Portuguese, 164, 408. Fields, James T., 229, 275, 280; letter to, 277. Forbes, Hugh, threatens Brown's plans, 191, 200. Francis, Dr., 78. Free Religious Association, 398; Higginson's address at, 164; his activity in, 268; similar English organization, 336, 337. Free Soil Party, 89-91, 115. Frothingham, O. B., 78; on Higginson's style, 156. Froude, J. A., 323. Fug Hayes, President, and wife visit Newport, 260. Hazlett, Albert, 199, 200; project to rescue, 196-98. Higginson, Anna, sister of T. W. H., 12, 290; death of, 381. Higginson, Rev., Francis, the Puritan, I; as non-conformist, 110. Higginson Francis (brother of T. W. H.), 11, 20. Higginson, George, 271; illustrates family generosity, 379. Higginson, Gen. Sir George Wentworth, at Trooping the colors, 332-34; Higginson visits, 350, 351. Higginson, Major Henry L., and T. W. H., 3