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Brookline (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
, for a remembrance. Unless it is worth while to have me stay long enough on earth to produce something, it is not worth while to be remembered at all. Was this in Keats' mind, when he chose his epitaph Here lies one whose name was writ in water ? Should I go before I have borne not flowers only but fruit, I would have no biography written and have my epitaph 'T is not a life! 'T is but a piece of childhood thrown away! Later, after one of the annual family Thanksgiving parties in Brookline, Wentworth thus defined himself to his mother:— If not exactly one of the Hans Andersen's ugly ducks, I have always been an odd chicken. I have always been at other people's Thanksgiving parties and not my own. I have been a snubbed little boy among an elder cousinly circle, I have been a Lord of Misrule among a younger; but not until we are all born again into some sphere of Saturn or Uranus shall I find a Thanksgiving party of contemporaries. Still I am not sure but this office o
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 6
a plan resembling Mr. Parker's in Boston more nearly than any other. This is a very thriving and active place, materially, intellectually and morally; there is as much radicalism here as at Lynn, but more varied, more cultivated, and more balanced by an opposing force; a very attractive place, and this free church movement a very strong one. I feel a sort of duty toward it, because I see clearly the need and the possibility of infusing more reverence and piety into this comeouterism of New England, to which I belong by nature; and this seems a good place to do it. The congregation is very large and they desire very much that I should come. And it will very probably be so. Later he told his mother:— I was yesterday offered $1200 to give up Worcester and be Secretary to the Temperance Committee for another year. . . . There is a feeling of the necessity for a vigilant superintendence while the law is being enforced. I of course declined. His mother replied that she w
Amesbury (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
em particularly affected by applause, but rather by his own natural egotism. I find nobody who enjoys his book as I do (this I did not tell him). . . . I saw his mother, a gaunt and elderly Abolitionist who had read my Thanksgiving sermon with comfort, and told me anecdotes of Henry's ways which are more domestic and filial than one would suppose. While at Newburyport, Higginson renewed his acquaintance with Whittier, having first met him when a boy of nineteen. I spent a day in Amesbury and saw Whittier. . . . Dark, slender, bald, blackhaired, kind, calm, flashing eyed, keen, somewhat narrow; not commanding, but interesting. Evidently injured by politics, easily content with limited views; yet sympathetic and (probably) generous. Lives in an appropriate cottage yet very simple. A queer compound of Yankee-Quaker and Yankee-hero and Yankee-poet; the nationality everywhere. He would whittle, no doubt. But his eye gleamed with a soft, beautiful tenderness as he came to th
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
freeze. I am engaged in several new enterprises, wrote Higginson to Samuel Longfellow who was abroad; one is or was the attempt to bring back the Free Soil Party to self-control and consistency from the more fascinating paths of coalition and conquest; this has failed already; and I have only seen my name in many newspapers, with unwelcome Whig compliments and melancholy Free Soil ones; and no good done but warning and reproof. The other may be more successful—it is to induce Massachusetts to follow the example of Maine, and either have laws that can do something, or none at all, in the way of checking the liquor traffic. But as you are now in England where all teetotallers take to drinking, and going soon to the Continent where all forget that they ever were teetotallers, you will not care about this, though we are really entering on a very important revival. Temperance was one of the vital causes in which the young minister interested himself with some practical res
Groveland (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
in London. . . . [She sang] a wonderful Bugle Song, the notes dying away in the distance. This last was perfectly incredible—you listen and listen and at last become perfectly bewildered and decide that the notes will never end but go with you always. One of the valuable friendships formed at this period was that with David Wasson, whom Mr. Higginson dubbed the most interesting person I know. This radical young parson had recently been ordained at the neighboring town of Bradford (or Groveland), to Mr. Higginson's surprise, who thought Wasson too heretical for any council to admit. Mr. F. B. Sanborn remembers encountering in that region a country youth who summed up the two independent clergymen thus: Wal, he's [Wasson] a sort of infidel; he says he don't take much stock in th' old saints; Mista Hinkerson [Higginson], daown ta the Port, 's the sweetest saint I ever knew. After attending some of the May anniversary meetings, Mr. Higginson reported that he had spoken his mind
Maine (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
new enterprises, wrote Higginson to Samuel Longfellow who was abroad; one is or was the attempt to bring back the Free Soil Party to self-control and consistency from the more fascinating paths of coalition and conquest; this has failed already; and I have only seen my name in many newspapers, with unwelcome Whig compliments and melancholy Free Soil ones; and no good done but warning and reproof. The other may be more successful—it is to induce Massachusetts to follow the example of Maine, and either have laws that can do something, or none at all, in the way of checking the liquor traffic. But as you are now in England where all teetotallers take to drinking, and going soon to the Continent where all forget that they ever were teetotallers, you will not care about this, though we are really entering on a very important revival. Temperance was one of the vital causes in which the young minister interested himself with some practical results. His wife wrote:— W.'s
Newburyport (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
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...
Brattleboro (Vermont, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
l colorphobia. Mrs. Higginson always regarded her husband's philanthropies with whimsical—if sympathetic— amusement, and once exclaimed, Why do the insane always come to you! As to Mr. Higginson's sermons, his wife wrote to the family at Brattleboro:— The Parish are really beginning to appreciate W. somewhat. His last two Sermons were so much liked they insisted upon their being published—and he gave his consent. They are upon The Tongue. Another sermon on Merchants attractedrs meet. Here they shared the home of certain distant family connections who held their right to the place as long as they ground corn once a year. In this retreat the banished couple not only produced their own butter, but even sent some to Brattleboro, for Mr. Higginson wrote to his mother:— This is not my first churning, nor did I do all of this, for it took a great while and I had not time, but week before last I did it all and this time most of it, so you may safely call it my b
Lynn (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
er where there are 600 come-outers and a very thriving city and a clear Free Soil majority and no anti-slavery preaching, and 40 conventions in a year. Rather to my own surprise, he wrote from Worcester in May, 1852, I find myself likely to assume the charge of a new Free Church in this city, on a plan resembling Mr. Parker's in Boston more nearly than any other. This is a very thriving and active place, materially, intellectually and morally; there is as much radicalism here as at Lynn, but more varied, more cultivated, and more balanced by an opposing force; a very attractive place, and this free church movement a very strong one. I feel a sort of duty toward it, because I see clearly the need and the possibility of infusing more reverence and piety into this comeouterism of New England, to which I belong by nature; and this seems a good place to do it. The congregation is very large and they desire very much that I should come. And it will very probably be so. Late
Salem (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
f discord to break the general monotony of the meetings. To Mr. Wasson he confided some of his professional anxieties:— Nov. 17, 1851. Something must be done with this great Orthodox church; no question of that; the how and what, alas, are more difficult of decision, and beyond my gifts and training at least. . . . Who is to pilot the ship, pray, if each Palinurus jumps overboard and strikes out for shore on his own account . . . I wish you would go and see. . . Sam Johnson of Salem, . . . who can help many troubles by his sheer Unconsciousness of the possibility of having them. Doubts as to his own success in his chosen profession sometimes recurred. In his second year of preaching, he mused:— I am weary of these lives that end early and leave only blossoms, not fruit, for a remembrance. Unless it is worth while to have me stay long enough on earth to produce something, it is not worth while to be remembered at all. Was this in Keats' mind, when he chose hi
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