#  Parker's Journal Entry on Emerson's Divinity School Address 

 



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 " ... so beautiful, so just, so true, & terribly sublime ...."

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 Sample entry from Theodore Parker's Journal. This is the entry for July 15, 1838, written after hearing Emerson's Divinity School Address \[[Journal, Volume 1](/%20https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/c/div00101c00004/catalog%20)\].

 Sunday 15thEmerson

 After as usual preaching, Sunday-schooling, teachers-  
-meetinging \[sic\] &c wife & I went over to Brookline & took  
Mary Anne & proceeded to Cambridge to hear the Vale-  
dictory sermon by M. Emerson. In this he surpassed him-  
self as much as he surpasses others in the general  
way. I shall give no abstract, so beautiful, so just,  
so true, & terribly sublime was his picture of the faults  
of the church in its present position. My soul is roused,  
& this week I shall write the long-meditated sermons, on  
the state of the church & the duties of these times.



 

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