Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 1 (of 3)

by Theodore Parker

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE INSTALLATION OF MR. PARKER.

LETTER OF THE COMMITTEE TO MR. PARKER.

Boston, November 28, 1845.

Dear Sir:—

Among your friends and congregation at the Melodeon, a Society has been organized according to law; and we have been instructed, as the Standing Committee, to invite you to become its Minister.

It gives us great pleasure to be the means to forward, in this small degree, the end proposed, and we cordially extend you the invitation, with the sincere hope that it will meet a favorable answer.

We are, truly and respectfully,
Your friends,
Mark Healey,
John Flint,
Levi B. Meriam,
Amos Coolidge,
John G. King,
Sidney Homer,
Henry Smith,
Geo. W. Robinson,
C. M. Ellis.
To the Rev. Theodore Parker,
West Roxbury, Mass.

MR. PARKER'S REPLY.

To Mark Healey, John Flint, Levi B. Meriam, Amos Coolidge, John G. King, Sidney Homer, Henry Smith, George W. Robinson, and C. M. Ellis, Esquires.

Dear Friends:—