Excerpt from Ralph Waldo Emerson: Together With Two Early Essays of Emerson
When the celebrated Arthur Stanley, Dean of Westminster, had finished his visit here in the year 1878, he was asked about the American pulpit. He said in reply that he had of course availed himself of every opportunity to hear the American preachers. He had heard preachers of eminence, he said, in almost every communion. "But it mattered not what was the name of the communion; the preacher," he said, "was always Waldo Emerson."
This word of Stanley's interprets with great precision the condition of the religious life of America to-day. Ralph Waldo Emerson, who was born ninety years ago to-day, found himself uneasy under the restrictions of ecclesiastical organization, and while he never abandoned the pulpit he early severed himself from any ecclesiastical connection.
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