Clarke, JAMES FREEMAN

Clarke, JAMES FREEMAN, theologian, was born in Hanover, N.H., 4th April 1810, and studied at Harvard and Cambridge Divinity School. He became a Unitarian pastor, and in 1841 founded the Church of the Disciples at Boston. From 1867 to 1871 he held a chair of Natural Theology in Harvard University. He died 8th June 1888. He assisted in preparing the memoirs of the Marchioness Ossoli; and among his numerous works are books on the forgiveness of sin, on prayer, and on orthodoxy, Steps of Belief (1870), Ten Great Religions (1871-83), Common Sense in Religion (1879), Manual of Unitarian Belief (1884), and Vexed Questions (1886).