Recollections of a Long Life: An Autobiography

An autobiographical memoir recounts early years and college, ministerial career, travels in Britain and meetings with notable literary, religious, and political figures, involvement in temperance and revival movements, pulpit and pastoral experiences, authorship, reflections on the Civil War era including impressions of Abraham Lincoln, and descriptions of home life and friendships. The narrative blends personal anecdotes, portraits of contemporaries, accounts of public addresses and reform efforts, and later-life retrospection culminating in a valedictory discourse on the joys and responsibilities of Christian ministry.