The Organization of Liberty on the Western Continent: An Oration Delivered Before the Municipal Authorities of the City of Boston, at the Celebration ... of American Independence, July 5, 1852
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Thomas starr king was born in the city of New York, Dec. 17, 1824, his father being the Rev. Thomas F. King, and his mother Susan Starr, both natives of that city. His father became the pastor of a church in Charlestown, where he died before his son was qualified to enter college. The young man however continued his studies while serv ing as a public school teacher and clerk in the Navy Yard, and in September 1846 he succeeded Rev. E. H. Chapin in the pulpit which his father had occupied. In December 1848 he married Miss Julia M. Wiggin, and soon after was installed at Hollis-street church, Boston, where he continued for eleven years. His popularity as a preacher and lecturer was very great, and few men have gained more devoted or appreciative friends.
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The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry (Classic Reprint)
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The object of this volume is to direct attention to the noble landscapes that lie along the routes by which the White Mountains are now approached by tourists, - many of which are still unknown to travellers; to help per sons appreciate landscape more adequately; and to asso ciate with the principal scenes poetic passages which illus trate, either the permanent character of the views, or some peculiar aspects in which the author of the book has seen them.
Where so many landscapes are described in detail, there cannot fail to be sameness and repetition. It would have been more to the author's mind to arrange the vol ume by subjects instead of by districts, and to treat the scenery under the heads of rivers, passes, ridges, peaks, 850. But it was found that such a distribution and treat ment, although it might have given the book more artis tic unity, would have made it less valuable on the whole, than to construct it as a guide to particular landscapes, and a stimulant to the enjoyment of them.
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The New Discussion of the Trinity: Containing Notices of Professor Huntington's Recent Defence of That Doctrine (Classic Reprint)
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Christian Believing and Living. Sermons by F. D. Huntington, D. D., Preacher to the University, and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals in Har vard College. Boston: Crosby, Nichols, 85 co. 1860.
IN the volume of Sermons thus designated we grate fully acknowledge a rich contribution to homiletic liter ature, and not only so, but a real addition to the senti mental life of the time. Dr. Huntington gives proof in these discourses of a special vocation for the preacher's Office, not always or Often manifest in otherwise able and worthy divines. A born ecclesiastes, and not merely a man of fine powers, who from taste or accidental deter mination has assumed the function. It needs something more than distinguished ability, - more than learning and humane eloquence, however coupled with purity of manners and acquiescence in the creed of the Church, The extra-large edition of the Christian Examiner for March, 1860, in which this article appeared, having been exhausted, the proprietor of that journal permits its republication in this volume.
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Nothing, seeing the light, has ever emanated from the pen of Mr. King which has not been well adapted to add to the treasures of human thought; nothing which might not be profitably pondered by the votary of any creed, Or the adherent to any party. While oftentimes gems of thought, brilliant with the flashes of a powerful and fervid mind, have been strown abroad with a lavish hand. From a soul charmed with the profound lore of metaphysics, and the deep mysts ries of the world of thought, they have been thrown out; yet not crude, and dull, and uninviting. For his sentences are not read as though the mind were compelled to toil amidst the ruins of a castiron edifice to find them but they come lucid, simple, and transparent in thought, while they are profound in wisdom, woven in a richness of imagery and a wealth of diction which inspires an interest and admiration wherever they are read.
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The Death of Mr. Webster: Sermon Preached in Hollis-Street Meeting-House, on Sunday, Oct; 31, 1852 (Classic Reprint)
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What visitation of Providence can thrill the citizens of our country, especially of New England, with more solemn thoughts than to know that the majestic presence how noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! - is never more to be seen of men; that the greatest nature our land has reared since Washington was born is never more to guide our councils and ennoble our Capitol; that the book of his activity is sealed; and that he is now to be a treasure of memory, a silent grandeur, in the quiet halls of history, a force and an ornament belonging to the past?
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The Railroad Jubilee: Two Discourses Delivered in Hollis-Street Meeting-House; Sunday, Sept; 21, 1851 (Classic Reprint)
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The old prophets, for instance, were not far sighted enough to see the effect of their words upon the intellect and heart of after-time's. They supposed that the greatness and limit of their office were reached in, announcing the approach of some judgment or mercy. Upon their Hebrew race. But it turns out, that their fidelity, to a perilous summons, and thesublime and tender language in which they clothed their messages of doom or love; remain long after the events they promised arefor gotten, and kindle the religious sensibilities of generations whose advent was concealed from their eye. How could David imagine that the prayers for aid to which the forest-leaves of Hareth stirred, and the trustful hymns which filled the dim caves of Adullam, and the rap turous odes which he sent from his palace to be chanted in the tabernacle on Mount Zion, and the penitential' br'eathings that brought back the divine presence to his breast, should be used as part of Christian worship in the cities of an unknown hemisphere, and furnish the souls of millions, of all latitudes and times and tongues, with a liturgy of devotion, gratitude, remorse, and hope? Had David been an irreligious man, had he never prayed, and sung, and wept for sin, what a sad blank would be left in the forces of 'civilization! How many thousands less. Would have known the peace of communion with God! How different might be your condition'and mine! His heartdevised the utterance of aspiration and en deavor as a private necessity, and God directed their agency to the help of countless needy souls.
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Christianity and Humanity: A Series of Sermons (Classic Reprint)
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HE writer Of the sermons in this volume was widely distinguished as an eloquent preacher and lecturer but perhaps the affection and admiration which were attracted to him as a rare example of Christian manhood do more jus tice to his character than even these discourses can do to the intellect which was the offshoot and expression of it. Nobody more quickly converted chance acquaintances into warm friends. TO know him was to love him. Persons Of all grades Of mind, culture, occupation, and disposition felt the effortless strength and charm Of his rich and genial nature, from the common beggar who intruded into his study with his pathetic appeal for help, always kindly met, all the way up to such an intellectual giant as Agassiz, who came to converse with him on the question of the Di vine Personality, a subject dear to the hearts of both preacher and naturalist. He thus necessa rily made a host of friends; and one of these now attempts to give a brief summary of the incidents of his life and the qualities of his Character. Thomas Starr King was born in the city Of New York, on December 17, 1824. His father.
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A Sermon Preached at the Installation of Caleb D. Bradlee, as Pastor of the Allen-Street Church in Cambridge, Dec. 11, 1854 (Classic Reprint)
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How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
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Thomas Starr King was an American clergyman, lecturer, and writer. He served as a minister of the Unitarian Church in Charlestown, Hollis Street Church in Boston, and of the First Unitarian Church in San Francisco.
Background
Thomas Starr King was of German, French, and English descent. His mother's father, Thomas Starr, was a native of the Rhineland, but was brought by his father to America in the latter part of the eighteenth century, where he married a woman of French extraction, Mary Lavinus. Starr King, as he was commonly called, was the oldest child of their daughter Susan and Reverend Thomas Farrington King, a Universalist minister, of English ancestry. The boy was born on December 17, 1824 in New York City, New York, United States while his mother was on a visit to her parents. His father, then in charge of a circuit in Connecticut, was living in Norwalk, but soon settled in Hudson, New York. In 1828 he removed to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and seven years later became pastor of the Universalist society in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
Education
In Portsmouth and Charlestown Thomas had all the formal schooling which he ever received. Before he was fifteen years old and while he was preparing for college, the physical breakdown and subsequent death of his father compelled him to help support the family, which now included five younger children. The responsibilities laid upon his youthful shoulders interrupted his schooling but not his education. He gathered knowledge from every side with the spontaneity and delight of a child at play. Having an agile and retentive mind, he absorbed the contents of books with great rapidity. He gathered his acquaintances together for reading, debate, and dramatics, and attended lectures in Boston and Cambridge. At seventeen he was deep in metaphysics, and astonished older men by his quick understanding of abstruse problems. Edwin H. Chapin, the younger Hosea Ballou, and Theodore Parker became his advisers and friends.
Career
King's first job was as clerk and bookkeeper in a drygoods store, but in December 1840, although barely sixteen, he was appointed assistant teacher in the Bunker Hill Grammar School, Charlestown. Two years later he became principal of the West Grammar School, Medford. Because of the larger compensation offered and the prospect of more leisure time, in 1843 he accepted the position of bookkeeper in the Charlestown Navy Yard.
Soon King began to preach, for from boyhood he had considered no calling but the ministry, and people were held by his clear thought, electric delivery, and rich, resounding voice. His first pastorate began in 1846 at the Universalist church, Charlestown, which his father had formerly served. Two years later he was installed over the Hollis Street Church, Unitarian, Boston.
An enthusiastic lover of natural scenery, he did much to make the beauties of New Hampshire widely known through the publication in 1860 of an elaborate descriptive work, The White Hills, Their Legends, Landscapes, and Poetry. This same year he accepted a call to the struggling Unitarian parish in San Francisco. "We are unfaithful, " he wrote to a friend, "in huddling so closely around the cosy stove of civilization in this blessed Boston, and I, for one, am ready to go out into the cold and see if I am good for anything". People flocked to hear him preach and lecture. He soon freed his parish of a $20, 000 debt and built a new church costing $90, 000, to which amount he contributed $5, 000 from the proceeds of his lectures.
An enthusiastic explorer and mountain climber, he introduced the East to the beauties of the Pacific Coast through vivid letters to the Boston Transcript. When the Civil War came and with it the danger of California's secession from the Union and the formation of a Pacific republic, his arguments and patriotic appeals were a powerful factor in keeping the state loyal. He was the mainstay of the United States Sanitary Commission in California. According to a recent writer, "It was the eloquence of Starr King that saved the Commission's work from financial ruin. Of the total of $4, 800, 000 cash received from the country California alone supplied upwards of $1, 234, 000".
Unfortunately, his career was cut short in his fortieth year by an attack of diphtheria followed by pneumonia. In four years he had become one of the best known and most beloved men on the Pacific Coast. At the news of his death, places of business, the United States Mint, government offices, and the courts were closed. The state legislature adjourned for three days. In the East, Whittier, and in the West, Bret Harte, commemorated him in poems. His portrait was hung in the State House at Sacramento, and in resolutions passed by the legislature he is described as "the man whose matchless oratory saved California to the Union. " A number of his sermons and addresses were published during his lifetime, and after his death there were issued Christianity and Humanity, A Series of Sermons (1877) and Substance and Show and Other Lectures (1877), both edited by Edwin P. Whipple, the former with a memoir.
Quotations:
"Be sure of the foundation of your life. Know why you live as you do. Be ready to give a reason for it. Do not, in such a matter as life, build an opinion or custom on what you guess is true. Make it a matter of certainty and science. "
"The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air. "
Personality
From his earliest years onward, King captivated the attention of all people he had met. He possessed the generous disposition, sunny temperament, and almost rollicking mirthfulness.
Quotes from others about the person
"Slight of build, golden haired, with a homely mouth which everyone thought beautiful on account of the beaming eyes, the winning smile, and the earnest desire of always wanting to do what was best and right. "
"He has the grace of God in his heart and the gift of tongues"- Theodore Parker
Connections
On December 17, 1848, King married Julia Wiggin of East Boston.