The Reminiscences of Bishop Chase Now Bishop of Illinois volume 1
The Reminiscences of Bishop Chase Now Bishop of Illinois volume 1
Philander Chase
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' " It is the gloomiest time just before day. " The above is an exact record made of passing events on the night of Good Friday, 1824. Private thoughts and feelings are more fully transcribed than is usual, because there seems some- thins: siniTuIar in them, when taken in connection with the events that followed. It will be recollected that the writer, in the winter of 1821-2, had sent a letter, * in answer to the inquiries of Rev. Dr. J of Boston, respecting the way and means by which the Epis...copate of Ohio was supported. It will be recollected that this answer, though composed in haste and surrounded with painful circum- stances, yet might be supposed to be somewhat descriptive, and feelingly expressed. Intended only for the eye of a sympathi- zing friend, it is natural to believe it went into some particulars of privations and sufferings, too humiliating to the Church to be exhibited openly to the gaze of her enemies, or to the mortification of her friends. Yet every word was true, and served to show, not the method, the ways and the means by which the Episcopate of Ohio was supported, but that there was no support at all : that the Bishop travelled at his own expense ; that he paid his own labourers to earn his bread at home ; and that, when the means * See page 178.
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