Posted on 12/25/2018 7:11:59 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas, Harper’s Ferry, the election of 1860, secession – all the events leading up to the Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts
First session: November 21, 2015. Last date to add: Sometime in the future.
Reading: Self-assigned. Recommendations made and welcomed. To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by reply or freepmail.
December 25. Christmas. Most satisfactory day. Higby preached at Trinity Chapel.
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
Merry Christmas, Homer! I think the Bishop of London, on the last page, is saying that his clergy are too High Church.
Interesting picture of Santa. Sleigh is pulled by 3 bottles of rum and a turkey...……………………………...
Merry Christmas to you, too. That makes more sense than anything I could come up with.
“Time was when it was unlawful to keep Christmas in New England. A penal enactment, were are told, actually forbade the pilgrims and their children from keeping Christmas; so closely was the day connected in their minds with the rite of the Church which they had reason to regard as their oppressor.
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The favorite dish for Christmas Day in this part of the world means to be - as on Thanksgiving Day in New England, roast turkey. It is curious to note, in this connection, that turkeys were introduced into the land of our forefathers contemporaneously with the Protestant religion.
Note here in Harpers the issue is the role of the state church. But here as history writes, the issue is paganism.
https://www.livescience.com/32891-why-was-christmas-banned-in-america-.html
Now we have a little more understanding of the 4 bottle of rum and turkey pulling the sleigh?
It looks as though they are carrying Catholic-looking items.
Here is the Bishop.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Campbell_Tait
Note the Punch commentary is “do what you want, but don’t bring your toys into the church.”
The issue at the time was ritualism? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritualism_in_the_Church_of_England Don’t have the time to determine his position as to fer it or agin it.
This may have been his biggest sin, he was wishy washy:
Some who did not know him thought, or pretended to think, that he was a Socinian or a free-thinker. The world at large knew better; but even Frederick Temple warned him, in the case of Essays and Reviews, “You will not keep friends if you compel them to feel that in every crisis of life they must be on their guard against trusting you.”[4]
That’s very informative, thanks.
This is an interesting article that might give some flavor of the times. It needs to be read slowly and let your lips move. The Bishop is mentioned in the article. That the Bishop is mentioned in Harpers says it was of interest to the readers.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/5408031/Celebrating-150-years-of-ritual-riot.html
King had been rector since 1842. “The four streets within which my church is situated,” he reported, “contained 733 houses – of which 27 were public houses, 13 beer houses, and no fewer than 154 were brothels.”
His parish held 45,000 souls “of those very classes who are, alas, almost universally alienated from attendance upon the services of the Church”. He set up schools and two mission chapels, and in 1846 a choir. Weekly services increased from four to 54.
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The spark for the riots was the appointment by the churchwardens of a weekly preacher, one Hugh Allen, a fierce puritan who hated the papistry that he insisted King had fallen into. At that time, the churchwardens’ “vestry” was elected by any of the thousands in the parish. The churchwardens did not even have to be members of the Church of England.
Times never change do they. We have the same issues today. Good thing God is in charge. It could have been worse, a fight over the type of cookware in the church kitchen.
Can you add me to a ping List? I see these Harper threads every so often and I’m fascinated by it.
Reading through the paper, on page 5, I noticed a story about the death of a convict named More at Auburn Prison in Auburn, NY. That was my first assignment as a new Correction Officer in 1980. Spent a little over 3 years there before transferring closer to home.
There was a story we were told when I first got to the prison, that the City of Auburn was offered the choice of being the State Capital, or having a prison. They chose the prison. Don't know how factual that is, but they say that some myths are based on part fact.
45,000 souls in 733 houses is more than 60 per house. Assuming many of the houses, other than those that were businesses, were divided into apartments for the poor, I guess that’s pretty reasonable.
Fascinating article, and you’re right, we do have the some conflicts today in many denominations.
The romance of “The Sisters” on page 13-14 ends before we learn how it really worked out.
It took me a while to figure out what your screen name is, but I finally got it to work. You’re on the new list.
Does it seem incomplete? I can go back to the pdf file to get the rest if I left some out.
No, I don’t mean that you missed anything. I mean that the story could get really interesting after the supposedly-climactic wedding, if they author had any imagination.
Continued from September 25 (reply #4). The letter from Ellen Sherman to Maria Ewing cited in the last paragraph of the excerpt was written on this date.
James Lee McDonough, William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life
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