. The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . r the King and Royal Faini-ted. flic Kin-- Chapel i- made use ofby a dissenting congregation. The Frenchfrom the Congress to make use of Christposes of their worship; mt the proprie-notice of this, persuaded Mr. Parker toSunday in the afternoon, by which meanstouched. . [n a word, he adds, ourwear a very gloomy aspect at present inworld. What .Mr. Weeks thus wrote in 177*was mainly true two years later, in L78Iat the point where I begin to .sketch thehistory of the Episcopal Church in Bostonfor the last hundred years. In the mean-time
. The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . r the King and Royal Faini-ted. flic Kin-- Chapel i- made use ofby a dissenting congregation. The Frenchfrom the Congress to make use of Christposes of their worship; mt the proprie-notice of this, persuaded Mr. Parker toSunday in the afternoon, by which meanstouched. . [n a word, he adds, ourwear a very gloomy aspect at present inworld. What .Mr. Weeks thus wrote in 177*was mainly true two years later, in L78Iat the point where I begin to .sketch thehistory of the Episcopal Church in Bostonfor the last hundred years. In the mean-time the Rev. Stephen C. had been chaplain of a regi-mentof light dragoons in the armyof General Burgoyne, had becomethe regular minister of ChristChurch; hut the congregationof the Old South werestill worshipping in theKings Chapel, and theRev. Dr. Samuel Par-ker was in charge ofTrinity. These werethe three Episcopal parishes in Boston in the year 1780: the Kings Chapel, with itshouse of worship on Tremont street, Christ Church in Salem street,. SOUNDING-BOARD, KINGS CHAPEL. 1 From Rev. Henry W. Footes Annals of Kinds Chapel, by kind permission of the author. 486 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN EPISCOPAL CHURCH. and Trinity Church in Summer street. The Kings Chapel had beenin existence since lG89,Chri>t Church since 1723, and Trinity Churchsince 1734. It is not difficult to see what it was that made our ecclesiasticalaffairs wear such a gloomy aspect in this part of the world in thedays which immediately followed the Revolution. To the old Puritandislike of episcopacy had been added the distrust of the EnglishChurch as the church of the oppressors of the colonies. Up to thebeginning of the Revolution the Episcopal Church in Boston had beencounted an intruder. It had never been the church of the people, buthad largely lived upon the patronage and favor of the English gov-ernors. The outbreak of the revolution had found the Rev. Caner rector of Kiug:s Chapel, and the R
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