. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . He had been astudent from thetime he was first ableto read. Havingbeen brought up inthe faith,he entered the Ban-gor TheologicalSeminary, and wasgraduated in ambition was toengage in missionarywork, and, taking acommission from theAmerican HomeMissionary Society,he sailed for Califor-n i a in September,1S64, three days afterhis marriage to EllaA., the daughter ofJohn and Ann He preachedfor eighteen monthsin a school-house atSan M
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . He had been astudent from thetime he was first ableto read. Havingbeen brought up inthe faith,he entered the Ban-gor TheologicalSeminary, and wasgraduated in ambition was toengage in missionarywork, and, taking acommission from theAmerican HomeMissionary Society,he sailed for Califor-n i a in September,1S64, three days afterhis marriage to EllaA., the daughter ofJohn and Ann He preachedfor eighteen monthsin a school-house atSan Mateo, twentymiles south of SanFrancisco, and thenfor a time in GrassValley, among thefoot-hills of the Sier-ras. Returning t o Massachusetts, he accepted a call from the Congre-gational Church in Framingham. Two years later hewent to Hannibal, Mo., where he remained three yearsand a half. It was at Hannibal that his theologicalviews underwent a radical change, and he became con-vinced that he must leave the Orthodox faith for a freerfield. He resigned his pastorate and was called to theThird Unitarian Church in Chicago. In 1874 the. its pastor, and here he has remained ever since, estab-lishing a reputation as one of the prominent theologicateachers of the day. His name as pulpit orator is knownwherever the English language is spoken, his publishedsermons having a very wide circulation in India, SouthAfrica, Australia and Japan. As an author, Mr. Sav-ages name figures conspicuously in the religious andcritical literature of America, and several of his bookshave been republished in London. He is an evolution-ist, and the influenceof the great leadersof modern scientificthought is very ap-parent in most of hissermons. The rarecombi nation of apoetic faculty witha sturdy and logicalmind is his chiefcharacteristic. H i spublished poems areadmired by thou-sands who never sawthe man. Mr. Sav-age is an earnestinvestigator in therealm of psychicalresearch, being anactive member of theA
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