...their own magnetisms, and will certainly reveal them in time." He writes in his journal at one time, " I have sometimes thought that in order to be a good...age we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers. The whole world holds on to formal Christianity, and nobody teaches the essential truth, the heart...

...parted in all kindness. He had said in his journal before this time : " I have sometimes thought that to be a good minister it was necessary to leave the ministry." Yet this could not be done without the wrench being felt ; and though he had for the last years been...

...part of a man that revolts most against his being a minister. His good revolts from official goodness. I have sometimes thought that in order to be a good minister it is necessary to leave the ministry." No; it is not necessary to leave the ministry in order to be a...

...Thermometer says temperate. Yet a week of moral excitement.1 Is it years and nations that guide my pen ? I have sometimes thought that, in order to \ be a...the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an i This must have been the week in which Mr. Emerson made known to his people his repugnance to the...

...that "the best part of the man, I sometimes think, revolts most against his being a minister," and "I have sometimes thought that in order to be a good...leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated," it was clear that some sort of a crisis was at hand. The special reason for his resignation was found...

...Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart." " I have sometimes thought that to be a good minister it was necessary to leave the ministry," he had written in his journal and now he was to write it in his life. As the years had advanced, he...

...Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart." " I have sometimes thought that to be a good minister it was necessary to leave the ministry," he had written in his journal and now he was to write it in his life. As the years had advanced, he...

...are to say the least superfluous, certain religious customs are unfounded and unwise. Soon he wrote : "I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good...minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry." When this crisis in his thought was reached he first retired to the White Mountains to think it over...

...order, to be a ..go.o(T minister^* -was necessary to leave -the ministry. The profession is antiqr.ated. In an altered age we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers." Truly the ancestral fetters are chafing our pastor'to the quick even in that very mild Unitarian prison,...

...a superseded revelation, and the profession of the ministry was, as he wrote, "antiquated," because "in an altered age we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers." In June, 1832, he proposed to his church that communion should not be celebrated as a sacrament, that...