The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-10-28

got anything out of him ] would soon
have had him off his horse"
Mr.. Jarvis was very careful in his
ministrations to all who needed them,
even if it brought to himself discom-
fort or peril. Moses Dunbar, a. parish
Toner, was compelled to leave his fam
lily and seek refuge on Long Island for
his tory Sympathies. Returning to WIS.,
it his loved ones he was arrested and
condemned as a spy to be hung. Mr..
Jarvis, at his request, visited Mr.. Dun
bar in the Jail at Hartford and when
he was hung accompanied him to the
scaffold. He was violently assailed for
this act of Christian duty. A letter he
wrote in his calm, dignified style to the
Connecticut papers allayed the excite
ment AT another time a forged letter,
full of invective against the American
cause, signed Abraham Jarvis, was
sent to New London for publication.
Mr.. Green refused to publish it, and it
came back to Middletown. 1t remained
for a long time in the window of Mrs.
! Bigelows tavern One day Mrs. Bige-
! low called in Dr. John Osborn, who was.
passing, and said: Here is a letter
which has been lying some time and
the seal is partly broken; it is some
plot against Mr. Jarvis and desire you
to open it, DR.. Jarvis says in his
Memoir that DR.. Osborn did So and
recognized the handwriting under an
assumed name. In this providential
manner the wicked design was defeat
ed. (+)
| AS the weary contest drew to close
Mr.. Jarvis, Mr.. Tyler, Mr.. Hubbard
opened their churches and read the SER
vice, emitting the prayers for the king
and royal family. The exact date can
not be known, but it was before April,
1881, as in that month the vestry of St
James New London, resolved ito call
on some reverend gentleman to officiate
in the Church of st. James as Rev. Mr..
Jarvis or Mr. Hubbard does" (x)
--(*) The Evergreen, III, p. 9S. -(x)
Hallam's Annals Of st. James, p. IS.
One act of the convention at Wood
bury has sometimes been overlooked.
The rector of Christ church, Philadel-
phia, had put forth in the summer or
| 1882 a pamphlet in which, considering
it doubtful whether England would con-
sent to confer the Episcopate upon the
| United States, he devised plant FOR
| district assemblies of "Episcopalians
as he styled them, and the election or
some suitable presbyter to be president
in each one of them, with the permits
sion of the assemblies to set apart men
for the ministry until bishops could be
procured. A declaration upon Episco-
pacy was to be made stating that 1t
would be adopted whenever possible.
The alarm aroused by this pamphlet
among true churchmen was intense,
and nowhere was it received with
greater apprehension than in Connect
icut. 1t was the work of the secretary
of the Woodbury. meeting to draw up
in the name of his brethren their SOL
emn protest and remonstrance and send
it to Mr.. White. The paper is strong
and dignified, and sets forth clearly
what the church had always held as of
faith concerning the Episcopate. Mr..
White soon after saw that the difficult
ties in obtaining the succession were
not insuperable and lived to be bishop
of Pennsylvania, to preside at the con-
secration of DR.. Jarvis, and to be for
nearly fifty years the revered patriarch
of the American church. (x)
-(x) This paper of Mr.. Jarvis is
printed in Bp. Whites Memoirs, edition
of 1880, in appendix III. for p. 1902, PIP.
1886, 340
While DR.. Seabury was vainly i'm
1 ploring the English Episcopate to rise
superior to statecraft and political con-
siderations it was with the secretary
of the convention that he maintained
a correspondence. From the rector of
Middletown he received letters of
frienship and of business. To him that
man. wearied but not downcast, turned
as to a dear friend and brother.
1t was the work Of Mr.. Jarvis and DR..
Leaning to secure from the Legislature
an act for freedom of worship which
was passed at the session of 1884. The
letters describing the manner in which
their design was INSTRUCTED are de-
lightful reading.
When Bishop Seabury reached New
London in July, 1885, he at once in
formed Mr. Jarvis, and to him was left
the work of summoning the convention,
of informing the candidates for dea-
cons order, and inviting such stanch
and tried men as DIR. Parker and Dr.
Moore to be present. To his parsonage
came, on that August day, one hun
bred and twelve years ago, the bishop
. of Connecticut, to be received with the
honor due to his Office and the affec-
ton due to a beloved friend. The con-
temporary account of the convention
ordination and convocation is from the
pen of Mr.. Jarvis. Could it be found
it would be an invaluable document.
In all the stirring and perplexine
events of the years, when uncathoio
principles were prevailing in the states
to the southwark, when there seemed
to be no plan of honor or conference in
sound doctrine, when Arianism erected
itself above the truth as it is in Jesus
and attempted to invade the household
of God, the churchmen of Connecticut
We're brave resolute and united They
knew the faith, they defended it, an6
would not willingly allow one iota OF
catholic and primitive doctrine to be
lost.
The death Of Bishop Seabury while
it saddened, did not discourage the
church people of Connecticut 1t was
to them an occasion of sincere grief
for they knew what he had wrought TO,
the upbuilding of the church, how he