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H. W. Longfellow (search for this): chapter 5
t one with a kind of surprised glance— Well, are you still here? Is there no end to you? As the year of solitary study drew to a close, the young recluse began to consider the importance of being regularly authorized to preach and the desirableness of being associated with 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 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, speaking of himself in the third person, explains his reason<
Corbin Thompson (search for this): chapter 5
on 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 gratitude from herself and her race to Garrison who came truly in a dark hour she said; her style was peculiar, tinctured strongly with methodistical expressions and scripture allusions, but her voice was clear and her languag
Octavius Brooks Frothingham (search for this): chapter 5
f surprised glance— Well, are you still here? Is there no end to you? As the year of solitary study drew to a close, the young recluse began to consider the importance of being regularly authorized to preach and the desirableness of being associated with 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 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, speaking of himself in the third person, explains his reason for withdrawal—th
Henry Copley Greene (search for this): chapter 5
]. 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 self-confident talent and the lesson though useful is severe. I do not believe a vainer person than I ever existed. I have never really felt that anything that a mortal can reach was beyond me. It was negative rather than positive. What my mission was to be I never knew. I only felt assu
Lydia Maria Child (search for this): chapter 5
m Santa Fe Says, ‘I'll go in the boat with thee, If you with cents will contented be Then I'll go in the boat with thee!’ The plan of reviewing a book by Lydia Maria Child occurred to Higginson one winter evening. He got home late, and without a fire sat down and wrote until midnight. His satisfaction was great, for it seemed 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 aith 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.
Parkman (search for this): chapter 5
hers 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. After delivering his visitation address on Clergy and Reform, 1847, he wrote Miss Channing:— I cannot tell you what a sensation my yesterday's words made—nor how exhausted and weary of soft speeches I got before night. All sorts of men from Dr. Parkman to Theo. Parker introduced themselves to me (some of them knew father)—and said all manner of things. . . . With Mr. Parker I had some excellent talk—he came out to hear me principally he said and was not disappointed—and he said some wise words of sympathy and encouragement. . . . The Reformers were delighted. . . . One candid man . . . said . . . I must thank you for your sermon to us, though I feel that in so doing I condemn myself. . . . Edward Hale came up... and said he had mis
March, 1845 AD (search for this): chapter 5
isfactory quarters in a quiet comer of Divinity Hall, looking toward the sunset and close by the Palfrey woods. Here he boarded himself, having contrived a wire and tin cup arrangement for boiling water over his study-lamp in order to wash his breakfast 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
September, 1846 AD (search for this): chapter 5
s 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 to me to feel we must lose her. . . . I do not suppose there ever was known before anything so beautiful as this union. There have been man<
1845 AD (search for this): chapter 5
o plead. This is theoretical—practically I have no doubt we should have much more principle in politics if woman had more share from her standard of right being higher than that of man. I think there is no possible argument on the other side excepting prejudice. He was also then interested in the perennial problem of the workingman and wrote, I have read the articles on the organization of labor and were I a rich man would have 30,000 printed and distributed. In the autumn of that year, 1845, he shared in the popular excitement about the proposed admission of Texas to the Union, attending meetings in Cambridge and at Faneuil Hall. He composed in verse a Texas rallying cry which appeared in The Liberty News, in The Free State Rally, and in The Liberator. He joined others in getting signatures to a petition called Remonstrance against the Admission of Texas as a Slave State from 764 Inhabitants of Wards I and 2 of the Town of Cambridge, Mass. (known as East Cambridge and Cambrid
February (search for this): chapter 5
ch I have thoughts—but how will it be when these are used up? Will new ones come? How will it be when I have to write two a week and shall not be willing to dilute any? The young thinker naturally felt some solicitude as the time approached for new responsibilities; and the thought of being obliged to write weekly sermons —forcing himself to write when not 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 wa<
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