WorkWilliam Henry Furness

Spirit of Jesus: A Sermon Preached at the Installation of Rev. D. H. Barlow, in Brooklyn

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1835Spirit of Jesus: A Sermon Preached at the Installation of Rev. D. H. BarlowAttested
“I was much pleased with Mr Furness' preachment; his doctrine came to me with a fresher flavor”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton, January 5, 1835
Specific dated personal reaction 'I was much pleased with Mr Furness' preachment' to a named printed sermon.

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Letter to Almira P. Barlow

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“I was much pleased with Mr Furness' preachment; his doctrine came to me with a fresher flavor, that I had just closed a Materialist work, whose Author, too, corrected it for the press, on his death-bed.”

Fuller, Margaret. "To Almira P. Barlow, 5 January 1835." In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817–1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth, 217. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Fuller explicitly names Furness and his sermon; Hudspeth identified it as likely William Henry Furness's Spirit of Jesus from September 1834. She read it after finishing an unidentified materialist work and found Furness's doctrine fresher by contrast.