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Monday, May 11, 2020

N. H. Barbour

Most of those who read this blog know that I'm revising the Nelson Barbour book. I am very interested in knowing - in some detail - your thoughts on Barbour both as a man and as a religious leader. Anyone?
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jerome said...

Barbour comes across as brooking no disagreement with his self view. What I would call the arrogance of certainty; his bubble remaining unpunctured throughout regular prophetic failures. He looks stern and unbending in his one known picture, and probably did not cope with expressing emotion. He married quite late in life, and when his wife died he praised her as “a tower of strength.” But whether he ever told her that while she was alive is in question. He admitted: “I felt as though I only half appreciated her worth while she lived, and not being demonstrative, much of that was unknown to her I fear.” (Herald of the Morning, January-February 1902).

May 12, 2020 at 12:59 AM

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