Recollections and Impressions, 1822-1890

Recollections and Impressions, 1822-1890

Recollections and Impressions, 1822-1890My father was, as I have said elsewhere, a clergyman in Boston, Massachusetts, a...
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Author: Frothingham, Octavius Brooks,1822-1895
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Recollections and Impressions, 1822-1890

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Author: Frothingham, Octavius Brooks,1822-1895
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Language: English

Recollections and Impressions, 1822-1890

My father was, as I have said elsewhere, a clergyman in Boston, Massachusetts, a Unitarian minister to the First Church, standing in a long line of men, of whom the earliest was severely orthodox, while he abhorred orthodoxy. Yet he was ordained without hesitation, was more than acceptable to the best minds through a service of thirty-five years, and continued more and more unorthodox to the end; so gradually and insensibly did the Puritan tenets disappear one by one until the shadow of them only remained. We are assured that by 1780 nearly all the congregational pulpits were filled by Arminians. In 1815, the year of my father's ordination, they were well domesticated in New England, Calvinism having lost its hold on the minds of thinking people, and none but keen-eyed watchers on the tower seeing what course opinion was taking. How far the tendency towards the moral and practical view of religion as distinct from the speculative view had gone,[Pg 2] is well illustrated in my father's case. He was a man of excellent education, one of the best scholars in a distinguished class at Harvard, an enthusiast for intellectual cultivation, singularly refined in perception, an acute critic, a careful, precise, elegant writer. His tastes were pre-eminently literary. This is said in full view of the fact that he was a learned theologian, a pungent disputant, a zealous student of biblical researches, a faithful pastor. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 37744
Author: Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
Release Date: Oct 13, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English

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