Produced by Julia Miller, tallforasmurf and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE This etext differs from the original in the following ways. Three minor typographical errors have been corrected that did not affect the sense of the text. The oe character is shown as [oe]. RECOLLECTIONS AND IMPRESSIONS 1822-1890 OCTAVIUS BROOKS FROTHINGHAM AUTHOR OF "BOSTON UNITARIANISM, 1820-1850, A STUDY OF THE LIFE AND WORK OF NATHANIEL LANGDON FROTHINGHAM," "THE RELIGION OF HUMANITY," ETC., ETC. G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK LONDON 27 WEST TWENTY-THIRD ST. 27 KING WILLIAM ST., STRAND The Knickerbocker Press 1891 COPYRIGHT, 1891 BY OCTAVIUS BROOKS FROTHINGHAM The Knickerbocker Press, New York Electrotyped, Printed, and Bound by G. P. Putnam's Sons CONTENTS PAGE I PARENTAGE 1 II EDUCATION 19 III DIVINITY SCHOOL 25 IV SALEM 35 V THE CRISIS IN BELIEF 53 VI JERSEY CITY 65 VII NEW YORK 76 VIII WAR 104 IX THE FREE RELIGIOUS ASSOCIATION 115 X THE PROGRESS OF RELIGIOUS THOUGHT IN AMERICA 133 XI THE CLERICAL PROFESSION 146 XII MY TEACHERS 165 XIII MY COMPANIONS 190 XIV MY FRIENDS 225 XV THE PRESENT SITUATION 248 XVI THE RELIGIOUS FUTURE OF AMERICA 272 XVII CONFESSIONS 289 INDEX 303 RECOLLECTIONS AND IMPRESSIONS. I. PARENTAGE.