. The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . ge. It was in view of hisleaving his Unitarian associations, and seeking orders in the EpiscopalChurch, and in expectation of his becoming its rector, that the parishof Emmanuel Church was organized. Dr. Huntington was ordainedDeacon in Trinity Church, on Wednesday, September 12, 1860,Bishop Burgess, of Maine, preaching the sermon. On the nextSunday he took charge of his new congregation, and his ministry fromthat time until he was made Bishop of the Diocese of Central New A CENTURY OF CHURCH GROWTH IN BOSTON. )03 York, in 1869, was o
. The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . ge. It was in view of hisleaving his Unitarian associations, and seeking orders in the EpiscopalChurch, and in expectation of his becoming its rector, that the parishof Emmanuel Church was organized. Dr. Huntington was ordainedDeacon in Trinity Church, on Wednesday, September 12, 1860,Bishop Burgess, of Maine, preaching the sermon. On the nextSunday he took charge of his new congregation, and his ministry fromthat time until he was made Bishop of the Diocese of Central New A CENTURY OF CHURCH GROWTH IN BOSTON. )03 York, in 1869, was one of the most powerful influences which theEpiscopal Church has ever exercised in Boston. Under his careEmmanuel Church became at once a stioug parish, and soon put forth_ _ its stiength in missionary work. Itfounded in 1863 amission chapel inthe ninth ward, from which cameb> and by the Chapel of theGood Shepherd, which now,with its pleasant buildingill Cortes street, is anindependent andU-efiil parichurch. In 1860t«t. MatthewsChurch, inSouthBos-ton,. which had for twenty-two years enjoyed the wise and gracious minis-try of the Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Clinch, was left without a rector, by hisresignation ; and in 1861 the Rev. Dr. J. I. T. Coolidge was chosen tosupply his place. Dr. Coolidge, like Dr. Huntington, had been a 504 HISTORY or THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Unitarian minister, and bad only a short time before received ordina-tion in the Episcopal Church. In 18G1 St. Jamess Church, Roxbury, established a missionchapel on Tremont street, which, under the charge of the Converse, became, a few years later, an independent parish,named St. Johns. In 1877 St. Jamess Church, now under theministry of the Rev. Percy Browne, again manifested its energeticlife by the establishment of another mission chapel, in Cottage street,in Dorchester, which is called St. Annes Chapel. In 1867 St. MarysChurch in Dorchester began a mission in ]\Iilton Lower jNIills, whichhas grown in
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