It is well to record these names before they are effaced by the commercialism rampant in the suburbs of Boston.
At the Town Hall in Lexington we turned to the right for East Lexington, and made straight for Follen Church, and the home of Dr.Follen close by, where Emerson preached in 1836 and 1837.
The church was not built until 1839.

In January, 1840, the congregation had assembled in their new edifice for the dedication services.

They waited for their pastor, who was expected home from a visit to New York, but the Long Island Sound steamer--Lexington, by strange coincidence it was called--had burned and Dr.Follen was among the lost.

His home is now the East Lexington Branch of the Public Library.
We climbed the stairs that led to the small upper room where Emerson filled his last regular charge.

Small as was the room, it probably more than sufficed for the few people who were sufficiently advanced for his notions of a preacher's mission.