The Theological Works Of The Rev Orville Dewey

Author : Orville Dewey
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ISBN 13 : 9781491089095
Total Pages : 362 pages
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Download or read book Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey written by Orville Dewey and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He was a most deep-feeling man. He loved his friends in and out of the profession, with a loyal, hearty, obliging, warm, and even tender emotion, expressing itself in word and deed. It was overflowing, not in any sentimental manner, but in a manly, sincere way. He was a man of infinite good-will, of a quite boundless kindness. His voice, his expression of face, his smile, the grasp of his hand-all gave sign of it. He felt things keenly; his sensibilities were most acute; even his thoughts were suffused with emotion." -O. B. FrothinghamOrville Dewey (1794 - 1892), a Unitarian minister, was a well-known orator of his day. A cousin by marriage to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Dewey was one of the few individuals privileged to call him "Waldo." He also was a friend of William Cullen Bryant and shared a pulpit with William Ellery Channing.He was born in Sheffield, Massachusetts, where his ancestors were among the first settlers. He graduated from Williams College in 1814, skipping the freshman year because he was found to be more than adequately prepared. He for a time taught, worked as a clerk in a dry goods house, and in 1819 graduated at Andover Theological Seminary.Upon becoming a Unitarian, he was appointed to be the assistant of William Ellery Channing, preaching when Channing traveled to Europe. He then became minister for ten years of the New Bedford Unitarian Church. From 1835 to 1848, he was minister of the Unitarian church in New York City. In 1858 he was pastor of the society called the "New South," retiring after four years and returning to his farm in Sheffield.A monotheist, he helped in his writings and sermons to support and defend liberal religion.Dewey lectured frequently and last appeared in the old Congregational Church at its centennial celebration, June 18, 1876. His controversial articles and sermons were inexpensively reprinted by the Unitarian association.His first book was Letters on Revivals. His works were issued in a collected edition (3 vols., New York, 1847); and again (1 vol., London, 1844).His daughter, Mary Elizabeth Dewey, an author who was born in Sheffield, Massachusetts, has translated George Sand's Miller of Angibault and edited The Life and Letters of Catherine M. Sedgwick (New York, 1871).(cover photograph courtesy of Keith Beard)