Father Taylor, Boston’s Sailor Preacher As Seen and Heard by His Contemporaries
Father Taylor, Boston’s Sailor Preacher As Seen and Heard by His Contemporaries by William Howard Armstrong is an independently published work released on June 30, 2020. This 510-page book presents a detailed exploration of Edward T. Taylor, a prominent nineteenth-century American preacher known as Father Taylor. The narrative highlights Taylor’s journey from an uneducated former sailor to a Methodist minister who dedicated forty years to serving a church for sailors in Boston’s North End, drawing large crowds and notable admirers.
Readers will find a biographical essay on Taylor alongside numerous accounts of his life and preaching, contributed by those who experienced his oratory firsthand. The book also features twenty illustrations that complement the text. With its focus on biographies and memoirs, this edition provides insights into the life of a significant religious figure and the impact he had on his community and contemporaries.
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One of the most celebrated nineteenth-century American preachers was Edward T. Taylor, always known as Father Taylor. Taylor was an uneducated former sailor who became a Methodist minister and served a church for sailors in Boston’s North End for forty years. Despite his lack of education, his natural talents attracted not only large crowds of sailors but also people such as Walt Whitman, who said Taylor was “the one essentially perfect orator” he had ever heard. Ralph Waldo Emerson called him “the Poet of the church” and “the Shakspear of the sailor and the poor.” Horace Mann said that in Taylor’s preaching “soul speaks to soul.” The book contains a biographical essay on Taylor by the author, scores of accounts of his life and preaching written by people who knew him, and twenty illustrations.
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