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

spected in Particular Congregations ac-
cording as its maintenance is reputable.
That Respect gives Advantage to its
| Growth, and removes a great Disad-
vantage it's Adversaries improve
| against it.
Therefore it is l venture on such I'M
porunity to serve the Church in this
Place, which is very sensibly done by
every Favour that promotes its COM
petent Maintenance. To show you how
deficient that is at present most cheer
fully follow your Requistion in the de-
tail of what the Gentlemen of my Par
ish allow me annually. l never yet
have received above fifty Pounds Ster-
ling annually from the Parish as their
Tax for my Support, and the Profits
otherways are to inconsiderable to de-
serve Mention: and even that Sum is
diminished in its Value by the Manner
of Payment, as ! usually receive but
part of it in Money, and that paid in
small Sums at different Times: the rest
in Necessares for my Familys Use at
q Disadvantage, as / could get those
Supplies cheaper and to greater Con-
venience with the Money. 1t is true
they engaged from the first to give
about twenty Pounds more and the rea-
son of their Failure is rather because
1t overreached their abilities, than any
neglect of doing what they could, as
many poor people can do little in Real
ity Nothing more than to provide a
few slender Comforts for their own
Families.
Could their Burden be alleviated, I
should be in good Hopes they would be
enabled 10 purchase a Glebe House,
thro the want of which / at present
undergo many Inconvenience. This /
believe would have been accomplished
had they not been disappointed of the
Assistance promised by Mr.. st. George
Talbot, deceased. Their Aim in Solic-
iting him was to improve what he
should please to give for that purpose.
To the Superior Discretion of the Ven
cradle Society, and the Consistency Of
1t in their very extensive Attention to
the Interest of Religion in general. [
must, however, submit our urgent
Need: and also the Importance of sup
porting the Church in this Place as the
only one on Connecticut River, and the
Communication the Town has in its
Commerce with a number of the most
populous Towns in the Colony, that lie
y above on the same: cherishing Hopes
in the good Providence of God that
some happy issue may attend us. With
ardent Prayers to God for his Blessing
on the Society's Labours and their and
your Prosperity and Welfare, I am
Revd. Sir,
Their and your most Obed't hum'le
Serv't
ABRAHAM JARVIS.
The Reverend DR.. Burton,
Secretary of the Society for the Propa-
cation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts.
Abingdon Street.
Westminster.
AS the revolution approached, as the
calm that followed the peace Of 1853
when England became master of North
, America, as the true loyalty and love
, of a united British empire which had
grown out Of the serving together In
the forests of New York and Canada,
| sharing danger and achieving triumph
for British valor, was succeeded by the
oppressive measures of the ill-advised
ministers of the crown, the condition OF
, the clergy of the Church of England
became critical one. The same love
OF freedom was in the hearts of many
, as 1t was in the hearts and on the lips
of the men led by Samuel Adams in
| Boston, or aroused by Patrick Henry's
impetuous speech in Virginia. In Con-
neeticut the greater number of clergy
: We're natives and knew what it had
cost to found and maintain the colony
They were sensible that those who lived
across wide sea could not always
: judge wisely of the needs of the colo.
nists, could not administer affairs with
the same prudence as those who were
intimately acquainted with the vary.
ing dispositions and abilities of the
thirteen colonies.
The right of remonstrance and peti
ton these sons of Connecticut fully con.
;, coded, and they thought that measures
of Cancellation would in the end redress
all abuses and heal all breaches. The
! Connecticut clergy, as we'll as those ir
the other colonies. had taken a solemn
VOW at their ordination to support the
crown. They dared not break that,
they could not allow it could be violated
, without sin. Open revolt they. as mer
, of peace. as sincere lovers of their conn
try in which they included Great Brit
tain, could not countenance.
: We may say they were mistaken. we
may say that those who, like William
>, White of Pennsylvania. became natri
+ OTIS were right; but we cannot condemn
n them for Inconsistency or lack OF nron.
v er respect for constituted authority
4 The clergy of Connecticut. when +,
!, words of petition succeeded the cIasl
: of resounding arms, when the congress,
a had declared the colonies free and in.
4 dependent states, met in solemn con.
r vention at New Haven on July 23. 177e
q with Mr.. Jarvis as president, and deter
a mined that, since the prayers for the
6 royal family could not be used, and the,
would not mutilate the service. publ,
>, worship be suspended
: One brave man, however. the noble
d confessor, John Beach, at Newtowr
n and on Redding Ridge determined. a.
Y he said, ito pray for the king until the
n rebels cut his tongue OUT He wa,
l. cruelty treated, but did not live to SCI
a the close of the war, to behold Connec.
e ticut devastated both by continental
and British soldiers and to waIoorot