A History of King's Chapel, in Boston: The First Episcopal Church in New England: Comprising Notices of the Introduction of Episcopacy Into the Northern Colonies
A History of King's Chapel, in Boston: The First Episcopal Church in New England: Comprising Notices of the Introduction of Episcopacy Into the Northern Colonies
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 edition. Excerpt: ...led into an unpleasant altercation with the Assistant or Lecturer, the Rev. Charles Brock-well, who had been appointed to succeed Mr Roe in 1747, and who had previously been minister of the churches at Scituate and Salem. Mr Brockwell, according to the appointment of the Bishop of London, was " Lecturer or ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 edition. Excerpt: ...led into an unpleasant altercation with the Assistant or Lecturer, the Rev. Charles Brock-well, who had been appointed to succeed Mr Roe in 1747, and who had previously been minister of the churches at Scituate and Salem. Mr Brockwell, according to the appointment of the Bishop of London, was " Lecturer or Afternoon Preacher; " and of course his time of officiating at the Chapel was the afternoon. But the weekly collection, on which the church mainly depended for the rector's salary, was taken in the afternoon; and it was the desire of the congregation that Mr Caner, as the most attractive preacher, should officiate at that season, rather than in the morning, which more particularly belonged to him. This desire they expressed, in a formal manner, to Mr Brockwell; and that gentleman's meekness not being prepared for such an application, by no means a flattering one, he at first refused his consent, and resolved to abide by the very terms of the Bishop's appointment. But he afterwards, with a reservation of his right, agreed to the proposed arrangement. This affair occupies in its details, several pages of the records. Without making the comments which might be made upon it, it will be sufficient to remark on the change of customs of which it furnishes another example. The afternoon would not now be selected here, as the season for the fullest congregations. Chandler's Life of Dr Johnson, p. 62. Beside Mr Caner's popularity in the pulpit, he had also a remarkable talent for business; and it was probably owing in a great measure to this characteristic of the Rector, that soon after his settlement, the design of rebuilding the Chapel was resumed, and prosecuted with vigor and diligence to its completion. The subscription paper was revived; letters...
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