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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, V: the call to preach (search)
I could constantly watch them. To Miss Channing Wentworth dedicated his journals and wrote her the fact that they often met. In one letter Wentworth thus warns the young lady against the difficgoing ahead quick. Over this new project, Wentworth pondered long, now rejecting the plan as imp be here and my summer joys begin. One of Wentworth's summer joys was a visit to Niagara with hi Through these years of study in Cambridge, Wentworth made frequent visits to Brattleboro, kept th of the poet, who was one year in advance of Wentworth. About this friend he said, He is a beautis destined to make a permanent impression on Wentworth's life, being freighted with much joy, but espect be given where they are truly due. Wentworth now reported himself as peaceful and industrarned? but Have I grown? In the autumn, Wentworth writes to his mother:β€” Am very glad tod him on the happy opening of his career. Wentworth was now reading Emerson's Essays and sometim
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VI: in and out of the pulpit (search)
effected here. . . . We met Mr.β€”β€”the richest man (about) in the Society . . . he ere long proceeded to compliment me on the good whipping I gave them Sunday afternoon on Freedom of Speech. . . . I have not yet found one who approves the war or disapproves free speech on the minister's part and I begin to feel somewhat confident that they will stand the trials I have ready for them. . . . I have talked very plainly in private. But in the midst of his satisfaction doubts occurred, and Wentworth wrote to his mother:β€” Strive as I may, I still feel myself in a position to some extent artificial. . . . I cannot reconcile myself to the recurring forms even of worship, still less those connected with church organization. I find no outward difficulty, but only inward; this may decrease, but it looks more like increase. To his Aunt Nancy he confided that he sometimes felt terribly false, . . . like Mr. Emerson with a hole in the heel of his stocking. (He refused to go to pay <