. Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day. ywith some of his classmates, Mr. Foote read and studied withMr. Lowell with rare delight. Graduating from Harvard in 1858, Mr. Foote entered theDi\inity School at Cambridge. He had been brought upwith conservative Unitarian views, and studied to fit himselffor the ministry of that faith. He remained in the School untilJuly, 1861, so distinguishing himself by his ripe scholarship andability that before his course was completed the attention ofseveral vacant parishes was attracted to him ; and before gradu-ating h
. Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day. ywith some of his classmates, Mr. Foote read and studied withMr. Lowell with rare delight. Graduating from Harvard in 1858, Mr. Foote entered theDi\inity School at Cambridge. He had been brought upwith conservative Unitarian views, and studied to fit himselffor the ministry of that faith. He remained in the School untilJuly, 1861, so distinguishing himself by his ripe scholarship andability that before his course was completed the attention ofseveral vacant parishes was attracted to him ; and before gradu-ating he was invited to the Unitarian Church at Cincinnati,Ohio, to the church of the same faith in Portsmouth, N. IL,recently vacated by his friend Dr. Peabody, and soon afterto Kings Chapel in Boston. This latter church had for himgreat attractions: its liturgy, adapted from the Episcopal form,appealed to the conservatism of his nature, which, though broadand liberal in its doctrines, was attached to the impressive andformal ceremonials of the past; its history was rich in the tra-. -^ /- ^^^.-£c^-C~L^-^l--;J=^^ MEMOIR OF MR. FOOTE. 575 ditions of the earlier days of the country; its congregation wasa large and cultivated one, drawn from the most eminent socialand intellectual circles of Boston ; while its pulpit had been filledb) such men as Dr. Freeman, Dr. Greenwood, and Dr. EphraimPcabody, all of them of eminent character and ability, and ofsaint!}- lives. But it was no light task for a man so young tofollow in such footsteps; and however conscious he might becf his own mental equipment, hesitation was but natural; notuntil he had been warmly urged to accept by his friends and Dr. Peabody, did he finally determine to assumethis responsible charge. A prominent member of the churchhad recommended him for its selection as pastor on the Biblicalground of the faith that was in his grandmother Lois andhis mother Eunice. No advice was ever better justified; forhis subsequent
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