Author: Harvard College

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-31

Total Pages: 634

ISBN-13: 9780260018212

Excerpt from Annual Reports of the President and Treasurer of Harvard College, 1892-93 In looking back on his long and honorable career, it clearly appears that the great service which he rendered to the Uni versity was in so conducting the services of Appleton Chapel for twenty-one years that, when he retired from the Plummer Professorship, it was natural and easy that he should be suc ceeded, not by a single preacher, but by a Board of Preachers of different denominations. His religious opinions and the whole spirit of his professional labors and of his life commended him to various denominations of Christians. He was welcome in the pulpits of many denominations, and by exchanges he brought ministers of different creeds into the College pulpit. His whole administration of the College Chapel broadened the foundations of the religious work of the University. The temper of his mind was constructive, affirmative, and compre hensive; and his daily walk and conversation commanded the respect and affection of all sorts'of men. When he began his ministrations in the College Chapel, it was occupied on Sundays by what was practically a small Unitarian church, consisting partly of members of the University, and partly of other residents of Cambridge; and at morning prayers the attend ance of the students was compulsory. When he resigned, the only policy with regard to Appleton Chapel, consistent with the work Dr. Peabody had done there, was to make it the centre of religious activities embracing all denominations and the whole University, and to abandon the compulsory attendance of students at religious exercises. It is unnecessary to say, therefore, that Dr. Peabody was warmly in favor of the changes in the administration of Appleton Chapel which ensued upon his retirement from the Plummer Professorship. The existence of a distinct church occupying the College Chapel, and connected with the Unitarian denomination, covers a period of sixty-seven years namely, from 1814 to 1881; but during the last twenty-one years of this period Dr. Peabody was preparing the way for a more comprehensive policy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.