Part 38

In the founding and endowment of libraries, Unitarians have taken an active part. What they have done in this direction may be illustrated by the gift of Enoch Pratt of one and a quarter million dollars to the public library in Baltimore. Concerning the time when Jared Sparks was the minister of the Unitarian church in Baltimore, Professor Herbert B. Adams has said: "Some of the most generous and public-spirited people of Baltimore were connected with the first independent church. Afterwards, men who were to be most helpful in the upbuilding of Baltimore's greatest institutions--the Peabody Institute, the Pratt Library, and the Johns Hopkins University--were associated with the Unitarian society."

Professor Barrett Wendell speaks of George Ticknor as "the chief founder of the chief public library in the United States." Ticknor undoubtedly did more than anybody else to make the Boston Public Library the great institution it has become, not only in giving it his own collection of books, but also in its inception and in its organization. The best working library in the country, that of the Boston Athenaeum, also owes a very large debt to the early Unitarians, with whom it originated, and by whom it was largely maintained in its early days.

One of the most important contributions to the work of education has been that of Rev. Amory D. Mayo, known as the "Ministry of Education in the South." After settlements over churches in Gloucester, Cleveland, Albany, Cincinnati, and Springfield, Mr. Mayo began his southern work in 1880. He had an extensive preparation for his southern labors, having served on the school boards of Cincinnati and Springfield for fifteen years, lectured extensively on educational subjects, and been a frequent contributor to educational periodicals. He has written a History of Common Schools, which is published by the national Bureau of Education, prepared several of the Circulars of Information of that bureau, and printed a great number of educational pamphlets and addresses.

"One of the most helpful agencies in the work of free and universal education in the South, for the last twenty years," says Dr. J.L.M. Curry in a personal letter, "has been the ministry of A.D. Mayo. His intelligent zeal, his instructive addresses, his tireless energy, have made him a potent factor in this great work; and any history of what the Unitarian denomination has done would be very imperfect which did not make proper and grateful recognition of his valuable services."

Christian Examiner, XLVII. 186; Mrs. E.B. Lee, Memoirs of the Buckminsters, 325.

Memoir of Buckminster, introductory to his Sermons, published in 1814, xxxii.

The Pentateuch and its Relation to the Jewish and Christian Dispensation. By Andrews Norton. Edited by John James Tayler, London, 1863. This was the Note, with introduction.

Boston Unitarianism, 244.

Hengstenberg's Christology, Christian Examiner, July, 1834, XVI. 321.

Ibid., 327.

Ibid., 356.

Ibid., 357.

Ibid., 358.

Our Liberal Movement in Theology, 68.

The Authorship of the Fourth Gospel and Other Critical Essays selected from the published papers of Ezra Abbot, edited, with preface, by Professor J.H. Thayer.

The Divinity School of Harvard University: Its History, Courses of Study, Aims, and Advantages, published by the University, 9.

The Divinity School as it is, Harvard Graduates' Magazine, June, 1897.

B.A. Hinsdale, Horace Mann and the Common School Revival in the United States, 127.

B.A. Hinsdale, Horace Mann and the Common School Revival in the United States, 148.

Henry Barnard, Normal Schools, 125.

B.A. Hinsdale, Horace Mann, 147.

Quoted by J.P. Gordy, Rise and Growth of the Normal School Idea in the United States, Circular of Information of the Bureau of Education, 1891, 49.

Ibid., 43.

S.J. May, Memoir of Cyrus Peirce, Barnard's American Journal of Education, December, 1857.

G.A. Hubbell, Horace Mann in Ohio: A Study of the Application of his Public School Ideals to College Administration, No. IV. of Vol. VII., Columbia University Contributions to Philosophy, Psychology, and Education, 50.

Mary Mann, Life of Horace Mann, 44; Henry Barnard, Normal Schools, 93.

Memorial Volume, 2.

Edwin D. Mead, The Old South Work, 1900; also Memorial Sermon, by Charles G. Ames, 17.