Life and Correspondence of Theodore Parker, Vol. 1 of 2: Minister of the Twenty-Eighth Congregational Society, Boston (Classic Reprint)
(Excerpt from Life and Correspondence of Theodore Parker, ...)
Excerpt from Life and Correspondence of Theodore Parker, Vol. 1 of 2: Minister of the Twenty-Eighth Congregational Society, Boston
Besides the collection which I have called. The Journal, there are several little pocket note-books out of which something has been gleaned, principally from those which he used during his last journeyings. But the few passages that are found in a con dition to print appear as from The Journal.
Wherever a citation occurs from his printed works, it is made from the only uniform American edition that has appeared. Many of the foot-notes would be trivial or superfluous except for the English and foreign reader, for whose benefit they were inserted. It is difficult to anticipate where a foreign reader might need a note or explanation sometimes I may have exceeded, sometimes fallen short of, the natural requisition.
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An Artful Life: Inspirational Stories and Essays for the Artist in Everyone
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John P. Weiss always wanted to be an artist and writer,...)
John P. Weiss always wanted to be an artist and writer, but his father recommended a conservative profession. So Weiss pursued a career in law enforcement, eventually becoming chief of police.
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John Weiss was an American Unitarian minister and author.
Background
John Weiss was born in Boston, the son of John and Mary (Galloupe) Weiss. His grandfather, also a John Weiss, was a German Jew who had come to the United States as a political refugee and kept a tavern in Germantown, Pa. His father was a barber.
Education
Weiss lived his boyhood in Worcester, Massachussets, attended the public schools and Framingham Academy, and graduated in 1837 from Harvard College. At college he did not stand high in the esteem of the faculty, and was once rusticated, but his temperament - an explosive compound of wit, poetry, and religious idealism - was relished by his classmates. After teaching for a few years, he enrolled in 1840 at the Harvard Divinity School and attended, 1842-43, the University of Heidelberg.
Career
He was pastor of the Unitarian Church, Watertown, Massachussets, where he succeeded Convers Francis, from October 25, 1843, to October 3, 1845, from March 23, 1846, to December 6, 1847, and from June 1862 to June 1869; in the second interval, he was pastor of the First Congregational Society, New Bedford, December 29, 1847, to January 24, 1859. Impetuous in his enthusiasm, zealous for liberty - which meant open opposition to Negro slavery among other things - unpredictably witty, eloquent, and satirical in his sermons, he dazzled, bewildered, and ultimately exasperated his pewholders at Watertown and New Bedford. Unable to find a congenial parish, he was compelled at various times to live on the insecure returns from writing, lecturing, and occasional preaching. He contributed articles, reviews, and poems to several magazines, especially to the Christian Examiner, the Atlantic Monthly, Old and New, and the Galaxy, and was one of the chief supports of Sidney H. Morse's Radical. His most substantial achievement was his Life and Correspondence of Theodore Parker (1863), which began as a short memoir, undertaken at the suggestion of Joseph Lyman, Parker's literary executor, and grew into a solid, two-volume documentary life of enduring worth. In writing it, however, Weiss incurred the displeasure of Mrs. Parker and of Franklin B. Sanborn, who claimed that Parker had appointed him his biographer. Weiss helped to introduce German literature to New England readers with The 'sthetic Letters, Essays, and the Philosophical Letters of Schiller, Translated with an Introduction (1845) and Goethe's West-Easterly Divan, Translated with Introduction and Notes (1877). His two original books are American Religion (1871) and Wit, Humor, and Shakespeare: Twelve Essays (1876), the fullest exhibitions of his high-minded, intensely subjective, somewhat disjointed thought. During the last five or six years of his life he lived in Boston, where he died.
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John P. Weiss always wanted to be an artist and writer,...)
Personality
His conversation, like his sermons and lectures, was a cascade of wit, epigram, and poetic images. He was greatly admired by several of the leaders of his denomination, whose memoirs depict him as a religious genius.
Connections
On April 9, 1844, he married Sarah Fiske Jennison of Worcester, who with three sons and two daughters survived him.