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Samuel Johnson (search for this): chapter 5
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 hiJohnson'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, speaki among brothers. Now the B——s are not regarded as individuals, but as a batch of brothers and sons of Dr. B. Early in this year, Higginson had written to Samuel Johnson:— I have made my debut at West Cambridge. I pleased the audience, I heard and did something towards satisfying myself that the pulpit is my vocation
Walter Channing (search for this): chapter 5
tribute to Wentworth's mother is taken from a letter to Miss Channing:— I think mother is one of the most fascinating ppplicants. I was surprised and provoked at first; and Mr. Channing who told me seemed surprised and sorry at my appearing es n't do for a sober person even to think of them. Miss Channing was a disciple of James Freeman Clarke, and Higginson wt and tea dishes. I feel very proud of it, he wrote to Miss Channing. You should hear the water sizzle! I could brew rum p on food in a fortnight. He usually dined on Sunday at Dr. Channing's in Boston, but bread and milk formed his principal dit meant for a lesson for me. In his long letters to Miss Channing, Higginson freely expressed his opinion on public questvisitation address on Clergy and Reform, 1847, he wrote Miss Channing:— I cannot tell you what a sensation my yesterdaygoing to electrify the world. . . . Finally Uncle George [Channing] has offered to insert it whole in the Christian World. .
James Lowell (search for this): chapter 5
owell] offering $10 per poem if he would publish there—This was afterwards raised to $20 and then $30—now he thinks he could get $50. This encouraged me considerably. Once, the young critic sent a box of gentians to Mrs. Child and carried a fine bunch up to Mrs. Maria Lowell in the evening. Spent an hour there. James and she are perfectly lovely together—she was never so sweet and angel-like in her maiden state as now when a wife. And again, describing a walk, he writes that he met James Lowell and his moonlight maid—how closely I felt bound to them through the sonnets. Of a later visit at the Lowells', he wrote (September, 1846):— The angel is thinner and paler and is destined to be wholly an angel ere long, I fear, but both were happy. . . . We talked Anti-Slavery and it was beautiful to see Maria with her woman angel nature plead for charity and love even against James, that is, going farther than he, and as far as I could ask. This was delightful, but it was sad t
German (search for this): chapter 5
ach day the call upon the minister; and this makes him feel he has been best preparing himself by learning to live. . . . Thus the result is to ask not Have I learned? but Have I grown? In the autumn, Wentworth writes to his mother:— Am very glad to have rejoined the school. I find it altogether improved in the year of absence, a higher tone of spiritual life and more mental activity . . . a fine liberal spirit such as has never before prevailed. . . . I am the only one who reads German. . . . Am busy on two dissertations—one on the erroneous views of the Scriptures—the other on the early history of the Trinity—both of which give an opportunity for original and unsound views. . . . Nothing keeps a man so fresh as abolitionism and kindred propensities, I observe. In a December letter he continues:— I wrote an elaborate essay on the true use of the Scriptures—against attributing (practically) literal infallibility to any part of them, or setting them up as abso
Thomas Wentworth (search for this): chapter 5
you in return I look for sympathy and interest. This beautiful tribute to Wentworth's mother is taken from a letter to Miss Channing:— I think mother is onsee a single flower I should n't care. I have sighed, and sighed in vain, Wentworth confided to his journal, considering the expense, for a tin hat [bathtub] andwish I could be put into a tin box and rolled away under a barberry bush! Wentworth continued the habit of taking long walks, seventeen miles after supper being ion to be relied on. But in spite of his enjoyment of this solitary life, Wentworth occasionally mused:— I think on the whole that this life is not the rist degree useful without being such? In these years of thought and study, Wentworth wrote many verses, some of which were published in periodicals. This led to enjoy instead of creating poetry. On the eve of his twenty-first birthday, Wentworth wrote to his mother:— I have repented of many things, but I never repen<
Holland (search for this): chapter 5
ound views. . . . Nothing keeps a man so fresh as abolitionism and kindred propensities, I observe. In a December letter he continues:— I wrote an elaborate essay on the true use of the Scriptures—against attributing (practically) literal infallibility to any part of them, or setting them up as absolute Master of Reason and Conscience; this excited interest and we brought it up at the Friday evening debate where it was discussed for four evenings with animation; one evening Elder Holland a Christian minister from Buffalo was present and spoke. . . . He is considered one of the ablest men in the body, reads Emerson, etc. After the debate he inquired with some anxiety whether that young man (meaning me) ever expected to find a pulpit to preach in? . . . I look forward to preaching with great interest, it will be a serious work to me if I do it. But I have several doubts as to practical success —whether my view of Christ as in the highest sense a natural character, divine as b<
William Wordsworth (search for this): chapter 5
club. He was constantly adding to his own collections of books, and wrote, My library is now becoming rather imposing. His principal companion in the school seems to have been Mr. Samuel Longfellow, brother of the poet, who was one year in advance of Wentworth. About this friend he said, He is a beautiful soul, though there is a certain shadow of reserve about him. He spoke of his sister Mrs. Fanny [Mrs. H. W. Longfellow]. I got a charming idea of the household goddess. She was just Wordsworth's phantom of delight, he said. While living in Divinity Hall Higginson formed a romantic attachment for a brilliant youth named Hurlbut, who was also a theological student. This friendship was destined to make a permanent impression on Wentworth's life, being freighted with much joy, but ending in deep sorrow. During his first year in the school, our young theologian came into contact with an older student named Greene who had great influence over him. Now has this man of real g
Amos Bronson Alcott (search for this): chapter 5
y new views and intimate that all things aren't exactly right, the conservatives lose no time in holding up their fingers and branding him as an unsafe person—fanatic, visionary, insane and all the rest of it—this has been the case with all reforms great and small and moreover there is often some ground for it because it is the enthusiastic (i.e. half cracked people) who begin all reforms. Mrs. Child you know has long been proscribed as an entirely unsafe person and as for Mr. Emerson and Mr. Alcott, it does n't do for a sober person even to think of them. Miss Channing was a disciple of James Freeman Clarke, and Higginson was thus led to attend his church. There under Dr. Clarke's influence he began to think of studying for the ministry. But he deprecated haste and wrote to his betrothed, I have declared my independence of this invariable law of our young men's sacrificing everything else to going ahead quick. Over this new project, Wentworth pondered long, now rejecting the
W. H. Hurlbut (search for this): chapter 5
mpanion in the school seems to have been Mr. Samuel Longfellow, brother of the poet, who was one year in advance of Wentworth. About this friend he said, He is a beautiful soul, though there is a certain shadow of reserve about him. He spoke of his sister Mrs. Fanny [Mrs. H. W. Longfellow]. I got a charming idea of the household goddess. She was just Wordsworth's phantom of delight, he said. While living in Divinity Hall Higginson formed a romantic attachment for a brilliant youth named Hurlbut, who was also a theological student. This friendship was destined to make a permanent impression on Wentworth's life, being freighted with much joy, but ending in deep sorrow. During his first year in the school, our young theologian came into contact with an older student named Greene who had great influence over him. Now has this man of real genius come to be with me, to teach me humility, even toward my fellowcreatures. He has shown me the difference between real genius and a
Unitarian (search for this): chapter 5
-Jurors or Disunion Abolitionists and my determination not only not to vote for any officer who must take oath to support the U. S. Constitution, but also to use whatever means may lie in my power to promote the Dissolution of the Union. . . . To Disunion I now subscribe in the full expectation that a time is coming which may expose to obloquy and danger even the most insignificant of the adherents to such a cause. In the following spring, describing to his mother a series of meetings, Unitarian, Anti-Slavery, and Association, of which he had chiefly attended the Anti-Slavery ones, Higginson said:— The most interesting and moving speech of all I have heard this week was by an old colored woman, Mrs. Thompson of Bangor, at one of the AntiSlav-ery meetings in Faneuil Hall. This old lady rose among the crowd and began to speak—all stood up to gaze on her, but she undaunted fixed her eyes on the chairman and burst out into a most ardent, eloquent and beautiful tribute of gratit
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