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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, V: the call to preach (search)
st and tea dishes. I feel very proud of it, he wrote to Miss Channing. You should hear the water sizzle! I could brew rum punch with ease. He rejoiced in his leafy surroundings, there being no house visible from his room, and wrote in March, 1845, I am so impatient for spring that I keep my windows open perpetually though it is generally cool, but the birds do pipe surpassingly. Soon the anemones will be here and my summer joys begin. One of Wentworth's summer joys was a visit to Niagara with his mother and sisters. Before his first sight of the falls he said to himself, There is more in this one second than in any other second of your life, young man! But after looking at the cataract, the only words he could use were Fanny Kemble's, I saw Niagara. O God, who can describe that sight! While he was a divinity student Higginson's expenses for food were surprisingly small. His pencilled accounts report one dollar spent on food in a fortnight. He usually dined on Sunday
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VII: the free church (search)
ible a book. The craving for larger opportunities was somewhat relieved by lecturing in other towns; and besides these outlets, Mr. Higginson frequently made stirring speeches at Free Soil, Temperance, and Anti-Slavery conventions. In his regular chronicles to his mother he reported that Worcester was very gay, but that his own evenings were engaged in public speaking. He also preached in pulpits other than his own. These trips often took him some distance from home, and he wrote from Niagara:— . . . .My Congregation was good, including Mr. Barnum, whose autobiography I came very near unconsciously referring to. In the afternoon I spoke at one of a series of remarkable meetings for free talk on theological subjects which Mr. May started in a public hall. All sorts of persons take part, Methodists, Jews, Catholics, &c. and no one can speak but ten minutes. These absences from home not only gave a needed change, but took the young man among various interesting people.
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
ve of nature, 52, 53, 138-40, 206, 207; dislikes teaching, 54; goes back to Cambridge, 55-57; economy, 55, 70, 85, 86; describes new life, 57-59; goes to gymnasium, 59; poverty, 60, 67; plan of study, 60; and abolition, 60, 61; dislikes restraint, 61, 67, 68; love of study, 62; loneliness, 63; uncertainty of future career, 63, 64; dreams of being a poet, 64, 65; reviews book, 65, 66; and Mrs. J. R. Lowell, 66, 67; decides to study for the ministry, 68, 69; rooms in Divinity Hall, 69; visits Niagara, 70; student life, 70-74; friendship for Samuel Longfellow, 71, 72, 78, 90, III; for W. H. Hurlbut, 72, 125-27, 280; for W. B. Greene, 72; on rights of women, 73, 92, 93, 134-38, 141, 266; on Texas question, 73, 74; leaves Divinity School, 74, 75; returns to solitary study, 75-78; on disunion, 76; on anti-slavery question, 76, 77, 93, 103, 129; and Samuel Johnson, 78, 82, 85, 104; reenters Divinity School, 78-83; explains withdrawal, 78, 79; sermons, 81, 94, 95, 102, 103, 105, 107, 123; fam