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cluding his parishioners in the Arlington Street Church in Boston, for the Harvard Theological Review, for the Massachusetts Historical Societyare widely various. Yet with them all he possessed and felt a definite kinship. With John Cotton, an ancestor, and with William Everett, a cousin, there was the actual kinship of blood. With other ALL THESE quoted in the memoir, "began where his uncle left off. He took liberty for granted. The battle for free thought was, so far as he was concerned, fought and won. To organize spiritual freedom and to make it effective in the lives of ordinary men and women was the difficult task to which he gave himself." Judge Grant proceeds:]Paul Frothingham was born July 5, 1864, at Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. His mother's sister, Lucretia Lunt, had married Paul Joseph Revere, who fell at Gettysburg, "following a brother who the year before had laid down his life at Antietam," and he was named Paul Revere for this maternal uncle by marriage. "A 'real boy,' like the rest of us," so writes his brother Langdon, "joining heartily in all our games, perfectly at home in the water and on it, a splendid skipper of the Cape catboat, who sailed many a race in the early days of the Beverly Yacht Club on Buzzard's Bay." His education began at Mrs. Walker's private school, Jamaica Plain, the Boston Latin School, and Stone's private school, from which he entered Harvard in the class of 1886. He graduated from the College cum laude. He was a pole vaulter on the track team.He immediately entered the Harvard Divinity School, from which he received the S.T.B, degree in 1889, and also from the College in the same year the degree of A.M. But in the summers of 1887 i 4 ALL THESE apply with all the greater force because he rejoiced in being a Christian minister. He will be remembered as a modern in the best sense, who carried on the tradition of his sect with unswerving fidelity to its tenets, yet whose interest in exact belief was always secondary to zealous promotion of upright living in this world, a world which to him was never narrow and always rich in opportunity. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION MEMOIR JOHN COTTON JOHN FISKE AGAIN JOHN RUSKIN THE HISTORIAN AS PREACHER THE MYSTICISM OF MAETERLINCK BY WAY OF CONTRAST EDWARD EVERETT HALE WILLIAM EVERETT GEORGE HODGES CROMWELL’S HEAD A GREAT CHARACTER