Early religious leaders of Newport- eight addresses delivered before the Newport Historical Society, 1917

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• Newport
• Whitefield
• Stiles
• United States
• Ecclesiastical History
• Channing
• Berkeley
• Hopkins
• Clarke

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• Langue: English
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Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2007 with funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation http://www.archive.org/details/earlyreligiousleOOnewpuoft Religious LeadersEarly of Newport Addresses delivered theEight before Newport Historical Society 1917 fj(/» Newport, Rhode Island Published by The Newport Historical Society 1918 MERCURY PUBLISHING CO. NEWPORT, R. I. 1918 PREFACE The religious element in the history of Newport can never be neglected by one who seeks to obtain a fair impression of the purposes and acts of its first settlers and the events which naturally followed. acceptDriven from the colony of Massachusetts Bay by inability to the foundersthe narrow religious conditions there imposed upon them, peopleof Portsmouth and Newport made welcome to their settlements perhapsof every faith and form of worship ; thereby giving what is the first instance in the history of the world of a free and independent community separating absolutely civil rights from religious opinions. As might be imagined it was but a few years before this invitation was known and accepted ; and the little city of Newport soon found among its citizens not only the Baptists and the Congregationalists, the first settlers of the city, but also Friends, Hebrews, Moravian Brethren, the Church of England, and the followers of George Whitefleld, who soon organized a Methodist Church." />

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Addresses delivered theEight before
Newport Historical Society
1917
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Newport, Rhode Island
Published by
The Newport Historical Society
1918MERCURY PUBLISHING CO.
NEWPORT, R. I.
1918PREFACE
The religious element in the history of Newport can never be
neglected by one who seeks to obtain a fair impression of the purposes
and acts of its first settlers and the events which naturally followed.
acceptDriven from the colony of Massachusetts Bay by inability to
the foundersthe narrow religious conditions there imposed upon them,
peopleof Portsmouth and Newport made welcome to their settlements
perhapsof every faith and form of worship ; thereby giving what is
the first instance in the history of the world of a free and independent
community separating absolutely civil rights from religious opinions.
As might be imagined it was but a few years before this invitation
was known and accepted ; and the little city of Newport soon found
among its citizens not only the Baptists and the Congregationalists, the
first settlers of the city, but also Friends, Hebrews, Moravian Brethren,
the Church of England, and the followers of George Whitefleld, who
soon organized a Methodist Church.
historyThe of Newport proves that this broad and liberal policy
wise aswas well as just. TTiese men of different faiths, some of them
subject constantto persecution in other colonies, proved themselves most
useful, and patriotic, many bringing to the city wealth and a love of
literature and of the arts.CONTENTS
approximately, of thr estaliHsh-(Note—The following papers are arrnnged in the order,
different religious bodies represented.)ment in Newport of the
CLARKE Page 5DR. JOHN
By Rev. FRANKLIN G. McKEEVER, D.D.
Pastor Second Baptist Church, Newport
read before the Society May S, IQI7Paper
RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS . Page 21THE
By Dr. WILLIAM HULL
J.
Professor of History, Swarthmore College
read before the SocietyPaper August 14, 1917
DR. SAMUEL HOPKINS .... Page 51REV.
By Rev. CLARIS EDWIN SILCOX
Pastor United Congregational Church, Newport
read before the Society, FebruaryPaper 6, 1917
REV. DEAN GEORGE BERKELEY, D.D. Page 77VERY
By Rev. STANLEY C. HUGHES
Rector Trinity Church, Newport
read before thePaper Society, Marc|i 6, 1917
SEPHARDIC OF NEWPORT . . PageTHE JEWS 97
By Rev. PEREIRA MENDES. D.D.
J.
Pastor Synagogue Shearith Israel, New York
Paper read before the Society, June 12, 1917
GEORGE WHITEFIELD .... PageREV. 1 1 3
By Rev. WILLIAM I. WARD
Pastor First Methodist Church, Newport
Paper read before the Society-, January 2, 1917
REV. DR. WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING . Page 125
By Rev. WILLIAM SAFFORD JONES
Pastor Channing Memorial Church, Newport
Paper read before the t,,Society, April 1917
REV. DR. EZRA STILES Page 149
By Rev. RODERICK TERRY, D.D.
Vice President of the Society
Paper read before the Society, July lo, 1917