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. 1847 Excerpt: ...early discovered a love for the acquisition of knowledge, is now the highly talented, esteemed, and successful Rector of Christ Church, in the village of Poughkeepsie, in the State of New York, and he has been heard to say, that he learned more from the lips of his father, in early life, of the English Church, of the ...
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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. 1847 Excerpt: ...early discovered a love for the acquisition of knowledge, is now the highly talented, esteemed, and successful Rector of Christ Church, in the village of Poughkeepsie, in the State of New York, and he has been heard to say, that he learned more from the lips of his father, in early life, of the English Church, of the Reformation, and of Puritanic wildness, error, and schism, than from the many volumes he had since read. Gladly did he hail the day, when Dr. William Smith (afterwards Rector of Trinity Church, Newport, and President of the Episcopal Seminary at Cheshire, Connecticut, ) was settled as the Rector of St. Paul's Narragansett. He really feasted on the great learning and true Churchmanship of that divine, always walking, after service on Sunday, to converse with him. Dr.Smith was a skilled enthusiast in music, and it is believed that in the Church at Narragansett, the " Venite" was first chaunted in America. Indeed, so well known and so venerated was the character of old Mr. Reed, that when Dr. Smith was about to leave, an individual despairingly remarked to Bishop Seabury, "I am afraid our Church will die." He answered: "It may be chastised, but while you have for wardens such men as Col. Updike, and Martin Reed for clerk, it will never die." Many anecdotes are told of the venerable Reed. He never but once inflicted corporal punishment on his children, and that was on a Monday morning. After an impressive lecture, he used the rod on his four sons for playing ball the day before. His government of his journeymen and apprentices when at their daily labor was novel. To procure silence and attention to business, he almost constantly employed his astonishing musical powers in singing a great number of chaste Irish songs, or ...
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