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His “Sermons on the Lord’s Prayer“[1] was published posthumously in 1850 .[2]Biography[edit]He was born in Hollis, New Hampshire to the large Worcester family. His siblings included Congressman Samuel T. Worcester and David Worcester, who was principal of Bangor High School.[3] He graduated Yale University, class of 1828. He studied at Yale Divinity School from 1829-1830.He married Olive Gay of Gardiner on August 26, 1838, and they had two children, Henry Parker Worcester and Mary Olivia Worcester, who was born after her father died.[4] He died in Portland in 1841 and is buried in the Eastern Cemetery in Portland, Maine.[4] His obituary said: “Mr. Worcester’s amiable, frank and social qualities gained him many warm friends, and his character and acquirements were such as to ensure to him universal esteem.”[5]Ministry[edit]He was licensed to preach April 12, 1833.[6] Worcester held ministerial positions at Swedenborgian churches in Abington, Massachusetts, Bath, Maine, Gardiner, Maine and Portland. Maine. He moved to Portland in 1833.[6] He published The Sabbath in 1841.Vegetarian diet[edit]In 1834 health reformer Sylvester Graham lectured in Portland, Maine on “The Science of Human Life.” Rev. Worcester attended and then wrote to his siblings in Hardwick, Vermont about the lectures.[2][3] In his letter housed in the Ernest Bell Memorial Library, he wrote about Graham’s recommendations for a vegetarian diet that was mostly vegan, and he wrote:I confess myself a convert to his mode of life in theory and now in practice.[3]Also in the letter Worcester wrote:But I tell you that the physicians, all but one quack, of Portland, a very scientific class of men, have attended the course, and I believe all, to a man, acknowledge the correctness of Graham\u2019s principles.The change that it is making in this city you can hardly conceive of \u2013 for a very large portion of the inhabitants have adopted his mode of diet and manner of living.[3]Food columnist Avery Yale Kamila wrote in the Portland Press Herald that his report was different from “the assessment in [history book] \u201cVegetarian America\u201d that most doctors of the day ignored Graham\u2019s dietary advice.”[2]Selected publications[edit]References[edit]^ “Sermons on the Lord’s prayer\u00a0: Worcester, Henry Aiken, 1802-1841. [from old catalog]\u00a0: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming”. Internet Archive. Retrieved 2020-07-26.^ a b c Kamila, Avery Yale (2020-03-29). “A meat-free diet in Maine is nothing new: In the first half of the 19th-century, some Mainers promoted a vegetarian diet”. Portland Press Herald. Retrieved 2020-05-15.{{cite web}}:  CS1 maint: url-status (link)^ a b c d John, Edmundson (2016-02-19). “1834 Vegan Enthusiasm In Portland Maine”. Ernest Bell Library. Retrieved 2020-05-15.{{cite web}}:  CS1 maint: url-status (link)^ a b “Rev. Henry Aiken Worcester (1802-1841) – Find A Grave”. www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 2020-05-15.{{cite web}}:  CS1 maint: url-status (link)^ “The Worcester Family – Seventh Generation”. www.worcesterfamily.com. Retrieved 2021-06-01.^ a b Carter, Nathan Franklin (1906). The Native Ministry of New Hampshire … Rumford printing Company. ISBN\u00a09781404706910.^ “Index:Sermons on the Lord’s Prayer (Henry Worcester).djvu – Wikisource, the free online library”. en.m.wikisource.org. Retrieved 2020-05-15.^ WORCESTER, Henry Aiken (1841). The Sabbath. J. S. Hodson.^ Zboray, Ronald J. (2013). Literary Dollars and Social Sense A People’s History of the Mass Market Book. Taylor and Francis. ISBN\u00a0978-1-136-72953-9. OCLC\u00a0962413201.  "},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki19\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki19\/henry-aiken-worcester-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Henry Aiken Worcester – Wikipedia"}}]}]