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Charles Henry Parkhurst was born on April 17, 1842 in Framingham, Massachussets, United States.
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Charles Henry Parkhurst was born on April 17, 1842 in Framingham, Massachussets, United States.
Charles Henry Parkhurst was not sent to public school until he was twelve years old. When he was sixteen, he was placed by his father in a grocery store to sell sugar, molasses and codfish, an experience that was distasteful. His interests were scholarly, and therefore, after a period of special preparation at a local institute, he went to Amherst College, where he was graduated in 1866.
In the early fall of this year, Charles Henry Parkhurst took charge as principal of the Amherst High School. Three years later, he went abroad for a year's travel and theological study at Halle, and on his return in 1870 accepted a position as teacher of Greek and Latin at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Massachussets. Another trip to Europe took him to Leipzig for a second period of foreign study (1872 - 1873). In 1874, he was ordained by the South Berkshire Association of Congregational Ministers and installed pastor of the Congregational Church in Lenox, Massachussets. Six years later he was called to the Madison Square Presbyterian Church, New York, where he preached his first sermon on February 29, 1880. Parkhurst was at this time a studious, sturdy cleric of the distinctly Puritan type. His interests were predominantly scholarly and pastoral. His sermons, read carefully from manuscript, were terse and forceful, but bore little trace of wide popular appeal.
Yet in a sermon preached on February 14, 1892, he threw a bomb the detonation of which was heard to the far borders of the land. An unsparing denunciation of "the polluted harpies that, under the pretense of governing this city, are feeding day and night on its quivering vitals a lying, perjured, rumsoaked, libidinous lot, " this sermon must ever rank as one of the most famous and effective pulpit utterances in American history. It sprang from years of growing outrage at the alliance of organized politics with vice in New York, and the public indifference to this situation, and more immediately from Parkhurst's work as president of the Society for the Prevention of Crime, to which office he was elected in 1891.
No notice had been given of its delivery, and it became public only through the enterprise of a roving reporter, W. E. Carson, who chanced to be in the congregation on the fateful Sunday. Furthermore, when the attack unexpectedly swept the city with excitement, and not only cynical politicians but press and public demanded proof of the charges presented, Parkhurst found himself with nothing that could stand the test of a court of law. Unprepared for what had occurred, he was face to face with the prospect of failure and humiliation. Resourceful and dauntless, however, he promptly set about securing the proof required. In his own person, and with the help of friends and detectives, he hunted out the haunts of vice, the saloons and dance halls, the gambling dens and houses of prostitution, to get his evidence, and on March 13, 1892, he preached a second sermon, this time with affidavits as his text. He now became the center of furious attack. He was ridiculed, insulted, threatened.
Charles Henry Parkhurst became the butt of ribald songs and indecent jests. Many of his parishioners questioned the wisdom of his activities, and not a few of his professional brethren lamented his "sensationalism. " He was armed with facts, however, and the courage to use them. Slowly but surely an aroused public swung to his support, and in due course, as so many results from a single cause, there came the Lexow Investigation (1894), the defeat of Tammany at the polls, and the sweeping reforms of the Strong administration. This conflict marked the climax of Parkhurst's career. It was the peak to which everything before had swiftly climbed, and from which everything after slowly fell away. The momentum of his great fame held him as one of New York's popular and effective preachers for two decades. Never again in the forefront of civic affairs, he remained always a caustic critic of official corruption. In 1918, on the consolidation of his church with the Old First Presbyterian Church, he retired as active pastor, and entered upon a serene and prolonged period of old age. His last public utterance, on his ninetieth birthday, was an appeal to the people to overthrow the "new Tammany".
He was the author of Analysis of the Latin Verb Illustrated by the Forms of the Sanskrit (1870), What Would the World be Without Religion? (copr. 1882), The Blind Man's Creed and Other Sermons (1883), The Pattern in the Mount (1885), The Swiss Guide (copr. 1890), Three Gates on a Side and Other Sermons (copr. 1891), Our Fight with Tammany (1895), Talks to Young Men (1897), Talks to Young Women (1897), The Sunny Side of Christianity (1901), A Brief History of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church and Its Activities (1906), A Little Lower Than the Angels (copr. 1908), The Pulpit and the Pew (1913), and My Forty Years in New York (1923).
He died suddenly of injuries sustained when he walked off the roof of the porch of his home in his sleep on September 8, 1933.
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Charles Henry Parkhurst was opposed to women voting.
Quotations:
"Faith is the heroism of the intellect. "
"Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load. "
"Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance. "
"Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants. "
Charles Henry Parkhurst was the president of the New York Society for the Prevention of Crime (1891).
In appearance, manner, and habits, Charles Henry Parkhurst was inconspicuous.
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"He (Charles Pankhurst) sounded like a prophet of old in his sermons, but personally he was a calm, smiling, earnest, but not unhumorous gentleman whn frankly enjoyed his notoriety and his exposures. He knew some of the doings of the police. They were dangerous facts to allege; libelous. He had to be careful, and he was cautious, but he was persistent, methodically, thoroughly. He organized in and out of his congregation a society to investigate the police, procure evidence, and put him in a position to describe New York police methods and their relations with Tammany Hall, the liquor interests, and criminals. " - Lincoln Steffens.
Charles Henry Parkhurst was twice married. On November 23 1870, he married to Ellen Bodman, of Williamsburg, Massachussets, who had been a pupil of his in the Amherst High School. On April 19 1927, he married to Mrs. Eleanor Marx, of New York.
