San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-09
REV. JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE

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Jamaica Plain, near Boston, the Rev.
James Freeman Clarke, great preach
er and author, lies on his death bed.
His life and work have made a deep
impression on nearly two generations
of thinking and devOut people.
This eminent man was born at Han
over, New Hampshire, on April 4,
1910. He was an infant when his
parents removed to Newton, Mass,
and he was educated in Boston, re-
ceiving his preparatory education
from the Rev. James Freeman, and at
the Boston Latin school. At sixteen
years of age he became a student at
Harvard. During the last year of his
collegiate course he formed a valuable
friendship with Margaret Fuller,
Countess d'Ossoli. This was con-
tinued in a daily correspondence dur
| ing the four years in which Mr..
Clarke studied at the Harvard divini-
| ty school. Her influence is said to
have led him to abandon preference
for the law for that for the Christian
ministry.
| When he was twenty-three he ac-
| cepted the call to a passionate at Louis
| vile, Kentucky. While living there,
in 1886, he founded and for the follow
| ing three years edited the magazine
in which appeared Ralph Waldo
Emerson's earliest published poems.
Oliver Wendell Holmes and DIR. Chan
ming were also among contributors to
| "The Western Messenger which
was valued, among other excellent
features, for its pictures of contempt
| rary southern customs. In 1889 Mr..
Clarke was married. He left Louis
vile in 1910, and returned to Boston,
| which has been the scene of his al
most incessant tolls ever since.
In 1S41 he founded the church of
the Disciples, where the principle
that "pews shall not be sold, rented
or taxed" has been maintained from
the beginning. His health broke down
| in 1859, from excessive application to
| literary work, and he rested the next
| three years. Five years before he
| created some excitement and a part OF
| his church seeded on account of his
exchanging pulpits with The odore
Parker. The creed of his own church,
as explicitly stated by him, is "faith
in Jesus Christ as teacher and mas
ter; it's aim the study and practice OF
Christianity
DIR. Clarke has been prolific writer,
and only his principal works can be
mentioned in this brief sketch. In
1852, he published, in connection with
r. w. Emerson and w. H. Charming
memoirs of the Marchioness d'OssO-
H." He published "Christian Doc
trine of Forgiveness" 1852; "Christian
Doctrine of Prayer" 1854 and 1856;
Life of jesus a translation from the
German of Hase, 1860; Orthodoxy, Its
Truths and Errors" 1861; "The Hour
Which Cometh," a volume of SER
mons) 1868; "Steps of Belief" 1870;
''Ten Great Religions, =" 1871; Common
Sense in Religion" 1873; "Exotics,
Attempts to Domesticate Them, ;" 1875;
"Go Up Higher, a volume of sermons,
1877; Essentials and Non-Essentials
in Religion" six lectures delivered in
Music hall, Boston, 1877; "How to
Find the Stars" 1878, and Memorial
and Biographical Sketches" 1878. IN
Phi Beta Kappa society of Harvard
college.
DR.. Clarke encouraged the anti
slavery crusade. During his long
career he has held various official posi-
tons, having been member of the
Board of Education, a trustee of the
Public Library and member of the
Board of Overseers of Harvard College
from which institution he received his
degree of doctor of divinity in 1888. In
1873 he was delegate to the Repub-
lican State Convention at Worcester,
and he was also a delegate to the
National Republican, Convention which
nominated Rutherford B. Hayes for
President.
On the evening of the 5th of April
last, the congregation of the Church
of the Diciples rendered to DIR. Clarke
a reception, in the parlors of the
church unOn the occasion of tho cav,