Ocupation: Essayist
Life: May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882
Birthday: May 25
Death: April 27
Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate.
source: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.119, Harvard University Press
topic: Pulpit, Worshippers