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Behind these events lay the history of those earlier pioneers, the Puritan fathers. There was, for instance, Captain Joseph Baker’s great-grandfather, Thomas Baker,39 who was baptized in the Kentis...

I cannot tell how much I can condense my identity to the sick [who are absent], but I know I can touch them so they can feel the sensation. . . . When you...

with the President on a noble white horse, cantered up the river road past the Baker Farm and was met at Bow by a reception committee and thence escorted into Concord. Ten thousand people descended...

or carrying on a conversation in a light vein. He was of a happy disposition, jovial and honest and I had great respect for him.”One of his leading champions in later years explained that “very oft...

a burst of visionary eloquence, summed it up in that great passage which began: But this august divinity I treat of, is not the dignity of kings and robes, but that aboun...

whether it depends more upon the man, or he acts upon the first principles of that, which when better understood shall be recognized as a new remedial agency....

The next year his daughter Catherine published her heretical letters on the Difficulties of Religion, the fruit of her doubts and agonies after the death of her “unsaved” lover. It was those doubts...

transcendent power implied in Jesus’ words: “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”The words that Quimb...

the struggle in men’s minds between God’s wrath and God’s love. Even Abigail’s natural cheerfulness felt the shadow of the mystery fall across it. In the few letters of hers that have survived from...