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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, V: the call to preach (search)
t feeling inspired —filled him with dismay. He also dreaded the necessity of preparing his graduation theme or Visitation Part. In February, he preached two sermons at Walpole, New Hampshire, which met with much favor. The minister borrowed one of the sermons for his wife to read, and she gave it her highest endorsement, pronouncing it a real Parker sermon! His clear enunciation and expressive way of reading the hymns also won praise. About this time he had an invitation to preach at Newburyport. His mother was overjoyed at these successful beginnings and congratulated him on the happy opening of his career. Wentworth was now reading Emerson's Essays and sometimes wondered why he read any other book. I can't make up my mind, wrote the youth in one of his moments of doubt, whether my radicalisms will be the ruin of me or not. At any rate, these isms caused much dismay among his more conservative brothers and sisters. The question what the baby of the family might do next g
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VI: in and out of the pulpit (search)
ise:— We have now no bill over $3 in Newburyport. We are amply provided for this year and tully kept records of the evening schools of Newburyport are the names of male and female pupils witn various men and women of note who came to Newburyport to lecture. In the winter of 1848, Mr. Higfilial than one would suppose. While at Newburyport, Higginson renewed his acquaintance with Wh reference to an anti-slavery convention at Newburyport, he wrote:— I read the notice of the and all evil short-lived. It is said in Newburyport that the young minister on leaving there buched himself out of his pulpit. One of his Newburyport friends says that the majority of his parisry other Sunday Evening. He remained in Newburyport two years after his resignation, interestinthe author through life. It was while in Newburyport that, with the cooperation of Samuel Longfefrom which this passage is quoted:— Newburyport, Sep. 29, 1850. . . . For myself there i[4 more...
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VII: the free church (search)
VII: the free church On the eve of Mr. Higginson's departure from Newburyport, this resolution was adopted at a Free Soil caucus in that town:— Resolved, That in the departure of one from this community whose purity of life, earnestness isfaction. In fact I find the merits of the masculine side of human nature rather coming uppermost here, quite unlike Newburyport. . . People look busier and happier here . . . there is much more air of country too, the main street is filled allour fire wood from the carts. . . . The Hall [Horticultural] is nearly or quite as large as the Universalist Church in Newburyport and is always well filled in the morning and crowded in the evening; everything prospers in the Free Church and I likse. There they sailed among acres of white lilies and hung wreaths of them on bow and mast. The boat he had owned at Newburyport went with him to Worcester, and he wrote to his mother: This afternoon, under those wonderful clouds, I have been floa
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VIII: Anthony Burns and the Underground railway (search)
ittle Mildred Williams Ida May: they, you know, are free. She is as gentle and refined as ever, with her delicate skin and golden hair. She may be adopted by a member of Congress. In reference to this curious episode, Mr. Higginson's old Newburyport friend, Caroline Andrews (Leighton) writes:— Mr. Higginson was much moved at the situation of this lovely child. He wished me to take her home with me and keep her for a while in my vacation, at Newburyport. While I was there he wrote Newburyport. While I was there he wrote me the most explicit directions in regard to her care and enjoyment. I thought he hoped at one time to adopt her, as after I had returned to my school, and given her back to her parents, he wrote sorrowfully to me, My dream of Mildred is ended. I was not worthy of it. A saving sense of humor was needed in those grim days; and in the midst of tragedies Mr. Higginson wrote to his mother:— One funny thing we have heard—a small child, endeavoring to describe a black man in the street, a<
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
ercises, Sept. 15, with letter about ecclesiastical councils. Pph. 1848 (Newburyport） Man shall not live by bread alone: Thanksgiving Sermon, Newburyport, NovNewburyport, Nov. 30. Pph. Fugitives' Hymn. (In Liberty Bell.) 1849 (Newburyport） The Twofold Being. [Poem.] (In Peabody, Elizabeth P., ed. Aesthetic Papers.) 1850 (NNewburyport） The Twofold Being. [Poem.] (In Peabody, Elizabeth P., ed. Aesthetic Papers.) 1850 (Newburyport） Address to the Voters of the Third Congressional District of Massachusetts. Pph. Birthday in Fairyland. Pph. Same. (In Phillips. Laurel LeaveNewburyport） Address to the Voters of the Third Congressional District of Massachusetts. Pph. Birthday in Fairyland. Pph. Same. (In Phillips. Laurel Leaves for Little Folks, 1903.) The Tongue: Two Practical Sermons. Pph. （With C. Cushing and F. L. Dimmick.) Address to the Citizens in Behalf of the Public Library [Newburyport]. Broadside. 1851 (Newburyport） Merchants: a Sunday Evening Lecture, Jan. Pph. Same. (In Hunt's Merchants' Magazine, Oct.) Newbury Schoolm.] (In Liberty Bell.) Same. (In his Afternoon Landscape. 1889.) 1852 (Newburyport—Worcester) Things New and Old: An Installation Sermon, Sept. 5.
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
, 13, 15, 16; son's letters to (early), 18, 19, 35-38, 47, 55, 56, 58-60, 65, 74, 75, 79-81; (Newburyport) 87, 91– 93, 96, 97, 99, 100, 102, 104, 106, 108, 110, 113, 116; (Worcester) 119, 125, 128, 12, 116, 310; fondness for children, 94, 95, 120. 121, 257, 272; establishes evening school at Newburyport, 95; early acquaintance with noted persons, 96-100; and David Wasson, 100, 101; and F. B. San, 103, 104; lives at Artichoke Mills, 105, 106; preaches in a hall, 107; keeps up interest in Newburyport affairs, 107, 108; interest in public libraries, 108, 140; writes editorials, 110, 111; ThalaLaw, III, 112; and Sims, 112-15; becomes pastor of Free Church in Worcester, 115, 116; leaves Newburyport, 117, 18; Worcester home, 118; preaches own installation sermon, 119, 120; his Sunday School,of, in Newport, 253, 254; Higginson's address to, at Alabama, 366; at Boston, 366, 367. Newburyport, Mass., evening schools in, 95, 107; pro-slavery sentiment in, 103; resolutions concerning depart