Background
John Fothergill Waterhouse Ware was born on August 31, 1818 in Boston, Massachussets, the son of Henry Ware and Elizabeth Watson (Waterhouse) Ware. William Robert Ware was his half-brother.
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Home Life: What It Is and What Is Needs (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Home Life: What It Is and What Is Needs Tinuance of such a condition. But what is the uni versal testimony of experience Let the tears of wives and the moods of husbands answer. A short time has served to wear off the lover. That is inevi table. There is a necessity for the assumption of their proper character as man and woman, as human beings. Is it possible there should be no jarring, no clashing Has wedded love no revealings to try hus band and wife, things either cunningly concealed from, or impossible to be revealed to unwedded love? Is there nothing in lives running their separate course through all these years, to stand in the way of an immediate and perfect blending Can hearts that are wedded be at once welded, made actually into that one which the law assumes they are? The experi ence of the happiest and the best is against it. There is a grand season of trial, before all newly-married pairs, of which they are not enough forewarned, which takes them unawares, casts a deep shade over early married life, and sometimes makes an utter wreck of hope and love. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Hymns for Sunday-School Worship (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Hymns for Sunday-School Worship MY object, in the present compilation, has been simply to get together a very few hymns for Sunday-school worship such as were not beyond the experience or the understand ing of children, and such as were not likely to be much used in the ordinary church ser vices. Since undertaking the work, I am told that there is a desire for something of this sort, and I am not without the hope that the book may be found useful beyond the limits of my own School, for which it was prepared. I am indebted to a friend for the selection of tunes, which it has been thought best should accompany the hymns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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The Silent Pastor: Or, Words of Advice and Cheer for the Sick in Hospitals of the Army
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The Gambling Element in Life: A Sermon Preached in Boston, Oct, 29, 1871 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Gambling Element in Life: A Sermon Preached in Boston, Oct, 29, 1871 Developments of childhood. Watch children narrowly, and you will find that the plays they enter upon with most inter est, and hold to with most tenacity, are those into which the chance element enters. The contingencies of the game give you the clew to its fascination. It is not merely sport, frolic, skill, which attract, please, satisfy the child but watch it 'closely, and you will see the eagerness of its zest pro portioned to the uncertainty of its success. What is sure what afi'ords no excitement, what has inexorable law, what must be so, scarcely provokes repetition, palls at once, is felt to be dull, and set aside. The clew to the empire that games of marbles have over boys if I carry a true mem ory from my boyhood, the most fascinating of games is not in the nicety of the skill required, so much as in the large room there is for missing, the great uncertainty which must attend even the best player. For the time, the whole boy being is held in thrall, and as the season goes, and the spirit in him waxes hot, you find him goading, with fresh fuel, the glowing fire, in the true gamester's spirit adding the game ster's stake, a thing that I am amazed that those calling themselves parents a moment allow. So is it with the lead ing pleasures of boyhood; while early manhood in the bowling-alley, at the billiard table, the horse-race, boat-race, or ball-match, manifests the growth and spread of the same Spirit; and you all know that the hazard of the contest alone soon proves an insufficient excitement, the craving spirit demanding the fresh stimulus of a prize, a bet, or the stakes. Nothing grows so fast, or gives such sure token of its growth; nothing is so unhesitating in its demands, so exorbitant, so unrelenting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Silent Pastor, or Consolations for the Sick (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Silent Pastor, or Consolations for the Sick We propose, however, to do more than give this general reason for being reconciled to Sickness; not, indeed, that we are in possession Of any source of comfort more powerful to soothe and heal, than those plain promises to which we have referred, and which are within the reach alike of the unlearned and the learned, the poor and the rich; but while there are some events so utterly beyond our comprehen sion, that, though we have faith that they are wisely and mercifully ordained, we yet cannot discover the method in which the good is effected, there are others respecting which fuller revelations are at tainable from the books Of nature and experience; and, when such is the case, it is not only gratifying to watch the beautiful course of Divine Providence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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John Ware
Edit ProfileEducation
Prepared for college in Cambridge, John graduated from Harvard in 1838, and would have been class poet, it is said, had not James Russell Lowell been in the same class. Entering the Harvard Divinity School, he finished the course there in 1842.
Career
In 1843 he became pastor of the Unitarian church in Fall River, Massachussets, remaining there until 1846. His next pastorate, which lasted until 1864, was at Cambridgeport, Massachussets During the Civil War, in an independent civil capacity, he rendered much service to the Union cause and especially to the soldiers themselves, lecturing or giving patriotic talks in various parts of the country, visiting the men in the camps - often in army boots and slouch hat - and preparing tracts, which were published and circulated among the soldiers by the American Unitarian Society. In 1864 he was called to be minister of the First Independent Society of Baltimore. His congregation, made up originally of old Marylanders, was augmented by many new-comers attracted by the quality of his preaching. The two elements did not mix readily, and the more conservative members found Ware's independence and disregard of ministerial conventions not to their liking. Accordingly, after some three years, July 1867, he resigned. Some of his friends then formed a new religious organization, the Church of the Saviour, the services of which were held in the Masonic Temple. So large did the evening attendance become that the use of an opera house was secured, and even this was sometimes over-crowded. In the summer time he held open-air services in Druid Hill Park. He took great interest in the welfare of the freedmen, and had a leading part in establishing schools for Negro children, which ultimately were taken over by the city. His activities in this field were carried on in the face of obstacles and at personal risk, necessitating at times his being attended by armed companions. While living in Baltimore he spent his summers at Swampscott, Massachussets, where he organized a church. In July 1872 the condition of his health necessitated his returning north, and he became pastor of the Arlington Street Church, Boston, to which he ministered until his death. He died in Milton, Massachussets, after a year of comparative inactivity caused by a coronary affection.
Achievements
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A number of his sermons were printed separately and after his death some twenty-seven of them were published in a volume entitled Wrestling and Waiting (1882). Two of his books had wide circulation - The Silent Pastor, or Consolations for the Sick (1848) and Home Life: What It Is and What It Needs (1864).
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Silent Pastor, or Consolations for the Sick (Classic Reprint)
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Hymns for Sunday-School Worship (Classic Reprint)
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The Silent Pastor: Or, Words of Advice and Cheer for the Sick in Hospitals of the Army
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The Gambling Element in Life: A Sermon Preached in Boston, Oct, 29, 1871 (Classic Reprint)
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Home Life: What It Is and What Is Needs (Classic Reprint)
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Home Life: What it Is, and What it Needs
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The Gambling Element In Life: A Sermon (1871)
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Silent Pastor, or Consolations for the Sick (Classic Reprint)
Personality
His preaching was direct and practical, more concerned with the problems of life than with those of theology. His interest was in men rather than in books, and his ruling ambition was to lessen the injustice and unhappiness of the world.
Connections
He was married on May 27, 1844, to Caroline Parsons, daughter of Nathan Rice of Cambridge; she died, September 18, 1848, and on October 10 of the following year he married Helen, daughter of Nathan Rice. By his first wife he had two children, and by his second, two.
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Religion
Unitarian