The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-09

Boston, June S.-Rev. James Freeman
Clark, well-known Unitarian divine,
died tonight at his residence in Jamaica
Plains aged 10.
This eminent man was born at Hanover,
N H, on April A, 1910. He was an infant
when his parents removed to Newton, Mass.
and he was educated in Boston, receiving
his preparatory education from the Rev.
James Freeman and at the Boston Latin
school, At 16 years of age he became a
student at Harvard. During the last year
of his collegiate course he formed a valua-
BILE friendship with Margaret Fuller, Coun-
tess d'Ossoli. This was continued in a daily
correspondence during the four years in
which MIR. Clarke studied at the Harvard
divinity school. Her influence is said to
have led him to abandon a preference for
the law for that of the christian ministry.
When he was % he accepted tire call to
pastorate at Louisville, Ky. While living
there, in 1886, he founded and for the fol-
lowing three years edited the magazine in
which appeared Ralph Waldo Emers6n's
earliest published poems. Oliver Wendell
Holmes and DR.. Charming were also among
contributors to The Western Messenger,
which was valued, among other excellent
features, for its pictures of contemporary
southern customs. In 1899 Mr. Clarke was
married. He left Louisville in 1910 and
returned to Boston, which has been the
scene of MS almost ncessant tolls ever
since.
In 1871 he founded the Church of the Dis
ciples, where the principle that "pews shall
not be sold, rented or taxed" has been
maintained from the beginning. His health
broke down in 1850 from excessive applica-
ton to literary and pulpit work, and he
rested the next three years. Five years be-
fore he created some excitement, and part
of his church seeded on account of his ex-
changing pulpits with Theodore Parker"
The creed of his own church, as explicitly
stated by him, is faith in Jesus Christ as a
teacher and master; its aim, the study and
practice of Christianity"
DR.. Clarke encouraged the anti-slavery
crusade. During his long career he has
held various official positions, having been
a member of the board of education, a
trustee of the public library, and a member
OF the board of overseers of Harvard col
lege, from which institution he received his
degree of doctor of divinity in 1888. In
1873 he was a delegate to the republican
state convention at Worcester, and he was
also delegate to the national republican
convention which nominated Rutherford
B. Hayes for president.
On the evening of April 5, last, the con-
gregation of the Church of the disciples
rendered to DR.. Clarke a reception in the
parlors of the church. upon the occasion of
the 10th anniversary of his birth. A large
and distinguished company assembled to do
him honor, among whom were Rev. Ed
ward E. Hale, DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Rev. Brooke HEREFORD, Rev. E. A. Horton,
and many other eminent persons. One of the
most interesting "reminiscences of his pro-
lOnged public life, is that of his being Off
eating minister at the marriage of Ma
thaniel Hawthorne
As seen for years before his lamented dis
appearance from the haunts of men, DR..
Clarke appeared quiet old man, with thin,
gray locks and full gray beard, who came
and went silently to and from Jamaica
Plain, nearly always with book in his
hand or under his arm; kindly looking
old man, who rarely spoke but appeared to
be ever busy with his thoughts.