MINISTER OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BOSTON.

BOSTON:

CROSBY, NICHOLS, AND COMPANY.

NEW YORK:

CHARLES S. FRANCIS AND COMPANY.

1853.

C1314.32 ~A

HARVARD GOLLEGE LIBRARY

1874, April 28.
Bernest of

Hon. Chas. Sumner,
of Boston.

(H.U. 1830.)

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by

THEODORE PARKER,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

то

RALPH WALDO EMERSON,

WITH

ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS,

AND

WITH KINDLY AFFECTION FOR WHAT IN HIM IS FAR NOBLER

THAN GENIUS,

THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED

BY

HIS FRIEND,

THEODORE PARKER.