Report of Commemorative Services with the Sermons and Addresses at the Seabury Centenary, 1883-1885.   By: Diocese Of Connecticut

SEABURY CENTENARY

DIOCESE OF CONNECTICUT.

REPORT

OF

COMMEMORATIVE SERVICES

WITH THE

SERMONS AND ADDRESSES

AT THE

SEABURY CENTENARY,

1883 1885.

WITH AN APPENDIX.

CONTENTS

PREFATORY NOTE

CENTENARY OF BISHOP SEABURY'S ELECTION:

Thanksgiving, Easter Day, March 25, 1883, Service at Woodbury, March 27, 1883 Bishop Williams's Address, Dr. Beardsley's Address, Diocesan Convention, 1883, Bishop Williams's Sermon,

CENTENARY OF BISHOP SEABURY'S CONSECRATION:

Diocesan Convention, 1884, Bishop Williams's Sermon, Service at Hartford, November 14, 1884, Dr. Tatlock's Address, The Bishop's Reply, Dr. Beardsley's Address, Mr. Nichols's Address, Mr. Hart's Address, Bishop Williams's Address, Exhibition of Seabury Relics,

CENTENARY OF BISHOP SEABURY'S RETURN:

Diocesan Convention, 1885, Bishop Williams's Sermon, Service at Middletown, August 3, 1885, Bishop Williams's Address, Dr. Beardsley's Historical Sketch,

APPENDIX COMMEMORATION AT ABERDEEN, 1884:

Bishop Williams's Sermon, Presentation of Paten and Chalice, Presentation of Address and Reply, Presentation of Pastoral Staff, Dr. Beardsley's Address, Address from St. Andrew's Church,

DEUS, AURIBUS NOSTRIS AUDIVIMUS, PATRES NOSTRI ANNUNTIAVERUNT NOBIS, OPUS QUOD OPERATUS ES IN DIEBUS EORUM, ET IN DIEBUS ANTIQUIS.

PREFATORY NOTE.

In his address to the Diocesan Convention of 1881, Bishop Williams suggested the appointment of a committee to provide for the appropriate commemoration of the centenary of the election of the first Bishop of Connecticut in the last week of March, 1783. On motion of the Rev. Dr. Beardsley, this suggestion was referred to a committee of three clergymen and two laymen, with the Bishop as chairman. The Bishop appointed on the committee the Rev. Dr. Beardsley, the Rev. Samuel F. Jarvis, the Rev. Samuel Hart, the Hon. F. J. Kingsbury, and the Hon, H. B. Harrison.

At the Convention of 1882, on recommendation of this committee, the following resolutions were adopted:

Resolved , That the Bishop be requested to set forth a special thanksgiving to be used throughout the Diocese on the one hundredth anniversary of the election of Bishop Seabury, March 25th, 1883, being Easter Day and also the Festival of the Annunciation. Resolved , That a memorial service, with addresses, be held in St. Paul's Church, Woodbury, on Tuesday in Easter week, March 27th, 1883, for which the Bishop be desired to make the necessary arrangements.

Resolved , That the Bishop be further requested to provide for a commemorative service with an historical discourse at the opening of the Annual Convention of 1883.

It was also, on motion of the Rev. S. F. Jarvis,

Resolved , That a committee consisting of the Bishop, three priests, and two laymen be appointed,.....to present to the Diocesan Conventions of 1883 and 1884, if they shall deem it expedient, a detailed plan or plans for the further special observances as a Diocese of the centenary commemoration of Dr. Seabury's Consecration, of the first Convocation summoned by him, of the first Ordination on this continent, and of any ecclesiastical events which are specially and historically connected with this Diocese and which it may be deemed desirable to celebrate.

The committee appointed under this resolution was the same as that appointed in 1882. In accordance with resolutions recommended by this committee in 1883 and 1884, the Convention requested the Bishop to make arrangements for commemorative services on the fourteenth day of November, 1884, the hundredth anniversary of the Consecration of Bishop Seabury, and on the third day of August, 1885, the hundredth anniversary of the first ordination held by him.