A Narrative of the Visit to the American Churches

by Reed, Andrew; Matheson, James

• ISBN13: 9781108045193
• ISBN10: 1108045197
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-23
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

Andrew Reed (1787-1862) was a Congregational Minister and one of the leading philanthropists of his day, fund-raising for and founding a number of orphanages and asylums. In 1834, he and fellow Congregational Minister James Matheson (1766-1840) were sent to the Congregational churches of the United States, in order to promote peace and friendship between the two communities. This two-volume 1835 work consists of thirty-nine letters in which the authors recount their journey, and their meetings with their fellow Congregationalists. They visited a large number of cities, mostly on the Eastern Seaboard, and made one excursion to Canada. In Volume 1, the focus is on their arrival in America and their first impression of the country and its people. They note with approval that that 'there is less claptrap, less trifling, and no frivolity' in Congregational services in the United States, as compared with England.

Table of Contents

Preface

Departure from Liverpool

Invitation of the Presbytery

Journey to Washington

Return to New York

Excursion to Morristown

Meeting of the General Assembly

Meeting of merchants

Journey to Burlington

Niagara

Journey to Buffalo

Journey to Cincinnati

Passage to Louisville on the River Ohio

Forest

Charleston

Sabbath at Lexington

Sacramental meeting

Steam-boat

Remarks on camp meetings

Passage to Philadelphia

Schenectady

Union College at Schenectady

Northampton

Revival at Amherst

Lowell

Salem

Boston

Hartford

Passage to New York

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