West Roxbury Sermons 18371848 Author:Theodore Parker General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1892 Original Publisher: Roberts Subjects: Unitarian churches Religion / Sermons / Christian Religion / Christian Ministry / Preaching Religion / Unitarian Universalism Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may b... more »e typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. I HAVE been asked, as I was asked ten years ago, when an edition of Theodore Parker's "Prayers " was reprinted, to furnish a brief sketch of the man, whom I knew intimately, and whom few that saw or heard him could ever forget. He was born in Lexington, two miles south of the battle-ground (where his grandfather commanded the minute-men of Lexington, April 19, 1775), on the farm of his father, John Parker, Aug. 24, 1810 ; he died in Florence, May 10, 1860, and is buried, with Landor, Mrs. Browning, and other illustrious Protestants, in the small and crowded cemetery outside the old walls of that city of Dante and Michael Angelo, -- men whom he resembled in courage and faith, and somewhat in fortune. I would not compare him to the half-insane monk, Savonarola, whom he equalled as a preacher; for Parker never yielded to the delusions of power, and never had occasion to recant or retract. Over his grave, two months ago, the sculptor Story, with funds contributed by the friends of freedom and of Parker, -- they were never disjoined, -- placed a monument bearing the Platonic features of the man, and inscribed, -- THEODORE PARKER, THE GREAT AMERICAN PREACHER. This volume will indicate how early and by what rich eloquence, yet simple, searching, and full of high aspiration, Parker won this title. He had educated himself at home, and in the schools which he taught, rather than in those where he was pupil, when, in 1834...« less