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ST. PAUL'S
Reformed Episcopal
CHURCH DIRECTORY
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DIRECTORY -
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ST. PAUL'S
Beformed episcopal Church,
OF CHICAGO,
CONTAINING
.A brief sketch of the history of the Reformed Episcopal Church and of St. Paul's Church in particular; .Also a complete list of the present members alphabetically arranged, together with a list of the various organizations connected with the Church.
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- SE2RY
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Reformed Episcopal Church,
SAMUEL FALLOWS, D.D., Editor-in-Chief.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
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BISHOP W. R. NICHOLSON, D. D. REV. MARSHALL B. SMITH, Passaic, N. J.
REV. W. H. COOPER, D.D., Chicago. REV. H. M. COLLISSON, Ottawa, Ont.
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PREFACE.
This Epitome is designed as an unpretending auxiliary in furtherance of the good work aimed at by Dr. FALLOWS and his worthy coadjutors. In it will be found a truthful history of St. Paul's Reformed Episcopal Church, of Chicago, situated on Washington Street, near Ann Street, together with such general items as I deemed of chief interest.
Its hurried compilation, and the great difficulties to con- tend with, by reason of the but recent organization of the Church, must be my excuse for any errors that may appear upon its pages. I gratefully acknowledge the assistance ren- dered me by the Rev. SAMUEL FALLOWS, D. D., and Col. JOHN W. BENNETT, and hope that with the arrival of another year a new directory may be needed, much enlarged and improved, one that will keep pace with the glorious, prosperous future, which, we prayerfully trust, may be in store for St. Paul's Reformed Episcopal Church.
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ORGANIZATION
OF THE
REFORMED EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Taken from the Journal of the First General Council.
On the second of December, 1873, after a meeting of solemn praise and prayer, certain ministers and laymen, formerly connected with the " Protestant Epis- copal Church in the United States of America," assembled at ten o'clock A. M., in the building of the Young Men's Christian Association, in the City of New York.
The Right Reverend GEORGE DAVID CUMMINS, D.D., at the close of the devo- tional exercises, said:
CHRISTIAN BRETHREN : By the goodness of God, and under the protection of the just and equal laws of this Republic, and in the exercise of the invaluable " liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free," you are assembled here to-day in response to the Circular Letter which I will now read:
NEW YORK, November 13th, 1873.
DEAR BROTHER,-
The Lord has put into the hearts of some of his servants who are, or have been, in the Protestant Episcopal Church, the purpose of restoring the old paths of their fathers, and of returning to the use of the Prayer Book of 1785, set forth by the General Convention of that year, under the special guidance of the venerable William White, D.D., afterwards the first Bishop of the same church in this country.
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The chief features of that Prayer Book, as distinguished from the one now in use, are the following :
1. The word "Priest" does not appear in the book, and there is no counte- rance whatever to the errors of sacerdotalism.
2. The Baptismal Offices, the Confirmation Office, the Catechism, and the Order for the administration of the Lord's Supper, contain no sanction of the errors of Baptismal Regeneration, the Real presence of the Body and Blood of Christ in the elements of the Communion, and of a sacrifice offered by a Priest in that Sacred Feast.
These are the main features that render the Prayer Book of 1785 a thoroughly Scriptural Liturgy, such as all Evangelical Christians who desire Liturgical Worship can use with a good conscience.
On Tuesday, the 2d day of December, 1873, a meeting will be held in Associa- tion Hall, corner of Twenty-Third Street and Fourth Avenue, in the City of New York, at 10 o'clock A. M , to organize an Episcopal Church on the basis of the Prayer Book of 1785, a basis broad enough to embrace all who hold " the faith once delivered to the saints," as that faith is maintained by the Reformed Churches of Christendom; with no exclusive and unchurching dogmas toward Christian brethren who differ from them in their views of polity and church order.
This meeting you are cordially and affectionately invited to attend. The pur- pose of the meeting is to organize, and not to discuss the expediency of organ- izing. A verbatim reprint of the Prayer Book of 1785 is in press, and will be issued during the month of December. May the Lord guide you and us by His Holy Spirit.
GEORGE DAVID CUMMINS.
Bishop Cummins then nominated Col. Benjamin Aycrigg, of New Jersey, as Temporary President; and Mr. William S. Doughty nominated Herbert B. Turner, of New Jersey, as Temporary Secretary.
These officers were duly elected and took their seats.
Bishop Cummins then read a proposed Declaration of Principles. and moved its reference to a Committee of five. Seconded and carried.
The Chair appointed, as such Committee:
Bishop Cummins,
Rev. Marshall B. Smith, of New Jersey,
Dr. G. A. Sabine, of New York, Mr. Albert Crane, of Illinois, and Mr. Charles D. Kellogg, of New Jersey.
The meeting then took a recess to await the report of the Committee.
After the expiration of about twenty minutes, the President called the meet- ing to order, and Bishop Cummins, from the Committee, made the following
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REPORT.
The Committee, appointed to consider the "Declaration of Principles" pro- posed by Bishop Cummins as the basis of organization of the Reformed Epis - copal Church, do now return the same to this meeting, and offer the following resolution :
Resolved, That we whose names are appended to the call for this meeting, as presented by Bishop Cummins, do here and now, in humble reliance npon Al- mighty God, organize ourselves into a Church, to be known by the style and title of the "Reformed Episcopal Church," in conformity with the following Dec - laration of Principles, and with the Right Reverend George David Cummins, D.D., as our presiding Bishop :
I.
The Reformed Episcopal Church, holding "the faith once delivered nnto the saints," declares its belief in the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testa- ments as the Word of God, and the sole Rule of Faith and practice; in the Creed "commonly called the Apostles' Creed;" in the Divine institution of the Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper; and in the doctrines of grace substantially as they are set forth in the thirty-nine articles of religion.
II.
This Church recognizes aud adheres to Episcopacy, not as of divine right, but as a very ancient and desirable form of church polity.
III.
This Church retaining a Liturgy which shall not be imperative or repressive of freedom in prayer, accepts the Book of Common Prayer, as it was revised. proposed and recommended for use by the general convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, A. D. 1785, reserving full liberty to alter, abridge, enlarge and amend the same, as may seem most conducive to the edification of the people, "provided that the substance of the faith be kept entire."
IV.
This Church condemns and rejects the following erroneous and strange doc- trines as contrary to God's Word:
First, That the Church of Christ exists only in one order or form of ecclesias- tical polity;
Second, That Christian ministers are " priests" in another sense than that in which all believers are "a royal priesthood;"
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Fourth, That the Presence of Christ in the Lord's Supper is a presence in the elements of Bread and Wine;
Fifth, That Regeneration is inseparably connected with Baptism.
[Signed]
GEO. DAVID CUMMINS, MARSHALL B. SMITH, ALBERT CRANE, GUSTAVUS A. SABINE, CHARLES D. KELLOGG.
The Report of the Committee was then, on motion, unanimously adopted.
The PRESIDENT then rising, said: " By the unanimous votes of Ministers and Laymen present, I now declare that, on this second day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, we have or- ganized ourselves into a Church, to be known by the style and title of The Reformed Episcopal Church, conformable with the Declaration of Principles adopted this day, and with the Right Reverend George David Cummins, D.D., as our Presiding Bishop."
The Temporary President then retired, and the Bishop took the chair.
The BISHOP presiding then offered Prayer, after which he delivered an
ADDRESS ON THE PRAYER BOOK OF 1785.
From which we make the following extracts:
The Prayer Book of A. D. 1785, is the old path to which we return, and the basis upon which we take our stand at the beginning of our work. What is, then, the history of that book? and what are its claims to our regard? Let us answer these questions as briefly as possible.
In the month of September, 1783, the treaty of peace was signed at Paris, the consummation and reward of the seven long years of struggle and suffering of our Revolutionary Fathers to achieve their national independence. But even before this event, the Episcopal clergy, who had before the Revolution been known as Clergy of the Church of England, began to take measures looking to such an organization of their ecclesiastical system as was rendered necessary by the independence of th . United States. The clergy of the State of Maryland seem to have been among the first move in this matter.
On the 13th day of August, 1783, a meeting or convention of the Episcopal clergy of the State of Maryland was held at Annapolis, moved thereto first, be it recorded, by a layman, William Paca, Governor of Maryland. That meeting or convention drew up a memorial or petition to the General Assembly of the State of Maryland, in which, as far as we are informed, occurs, for the first time in an official document, the title The Protestant Episcopal Church.
In May, 1784, the second step was taken towards the organization of the Pro- testant Episcopal Church in the United States. A few of the clergy of the States of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, met at New Brunswick, N.
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J., on the 13th and 14th of May, 1784, to confer together concerning the interests of the corporation for the support of widows and orphans of deceased clergymen. "Here," says Bishop White, " it was determined to procure a larger meeting on the 5th of the ensuing October, in the City of New York, not only for the purpose of reviving the said charitable institution, but to confer and agree on some gen- eral principles of an union of the Episcopal Church throughout the States."
On the 5th day of October, 1784, clergymen and laymen from eight States as- sembled in New York, and recommended " Seven principles of Ecclesiastical Union" as a basis for future organization. They also recommended that a convention, composed of clerical and lay deputies from the conventions of the different. States, be convened in the City of Philadelphia, on the 27th of Sep- tember, 1785.
On September 28th, the second day of the session, a committee was appointed to take the important work of revising the Prayer Book in hand, consisting of one clerical and one lay deputy from each State represented. The chairman of this committee of fourteen persons was the Rev. William Smith, D.D., of Mary- land, formerly the Provost of the College and Academy of Philadelphia. It is believed that to him and to Bishop White we are chiefly indebted for the thorough revision accomplished in the Proposed Prayer Book set forth and rec- ommended for use by that convention.
On the 5th day of October, 1785, the work of revision was finished, and the Liturgy ready for use; and on the same day the Convention passed the follow - ing resolution :
" WEDNESDAY EVENING, Oct. 5, 1785.
"Ordered, That the Rev. Dr. Smith be requested to prepare and preach a ser - mon suited to the solemn occasion of the present Convention, on Friday next; and that the Convention attend the same. and that the services of the Church as proposed for future use, be then read for the first time."
The Liturgy, as thus revised, was read for the first time in public worship by the Rev. Wm. White, D. D.
The sermon preached on that occasion, by the Rev. Dr. Smith, I make the fol- lowing extracts from :
This Prayer Book was printed first in Philadelphia in 1786, and reprinted in London in 1789, and the edition now before you is an exact reprint of the Lon- don edition of that year.
One other fact connected with the history of this remarkable book is to be re- corded. The general convention of 1785 sent a petition to the Archbishops and Bishops of the Church of England, asking them to confer "the Episcopal char- acter" on such presbyters as should be elected to that office by the several con- ventions of the States, and forwarded a copy of the proposed Prayer Book to them for their inspection. To this request the Archbishops and Bishops of the Church of England returned an answer encouraging the convention to hope for
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success in their application, but objecting to some of the alterations in the pro- posed Prayer Book. The things objected to were only the rejection of the Nicene and Athanasian Creeds, and the clausc, "He descended into hell," in the Apostles' Creed. No objection was offered to the other alterations. These ex- ceptions taken by the English Bishops were received kindly, and at the meeting of the general convention in the next year, 1786, at Wilmington, Delaware, it was determined to restore the Nicene Creed and the omitted clause in the Apostles' Creed; but the proposition to restore the Athanasian Creed was al most unanimously rejected.
At the next triennial session of the general convention in 1789, most of the alterations in the proposed book failed to receive the sanction of that body, and · the present Prayer Book of the Protestant Episcopal Church was adopted as it now stands, excepting the articles of religion, the ordinal, the office of institu- tion, and the form of consecration of a church.
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