Report of Commemorative Services with the Sermons and Addresses at the Seabury Centenary, 1883-1885

Report of Commemorative
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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