Excerpt from Substance and Show, and Other Lectures
Those who have read the biographical preface to Mr. King's sermons, published about a month ago under the general title of "Christianity and Humanity," do not need to be informed that his influence extended far beyond his parish and his denomination, and included that vast multitude of listeners who are more or less magnetically affected by the lyceum lecturer. Indeed, he was one of the foremost speakers who followed in the train of Ralph Waldo Emerson in erecting the lecture platform into a kind of free pulpit, from which the advanced ideas of spiritual thinkers, philanthropists, and reformers were diffused through the community. It is needless to speak of Emerson's supremacy in this line of thought and endeavor, for it is now universally acknowledged. By carefully avoiding all controversy with the good and learned men who were both shocked by his radicalism and charmed by his genius and character, he made his simple affirmations felt as forces wherever his voice was heard in our multitudinous lyceums.
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