BIB_ID
346798
Accession number
MA 366.59
Creator
Onderdonk, Henry U. (Henry Ustick), 1789-1858.
Display Date
1834 Dec. 9.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 24.4 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark to "Rev: B.B. Killikelly / Kittanning / Armstrong Co: / Penna."
Part of a 12-volume collection of Autographs and Manuscripts of Bishops of The Protestant Episcopal Church (MA 364-375). The arrangement of the collection is by Bishops in the order of their consecration and chronological within their portion of the collection. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Rev. Killikelly was the rector of S. Paul's Church in Kittanning, Pennsylvania from 1831-1836.
With a note, in an unknown hand, on the address panel, written over the name and address "Bp: H.U. Onderdonk concerning the loaning of Ep. Churches to other bodies of Xns - & the rights of Vestries in this matter. A valuable letter."
Part of a 12-volume collection of Autographs and Manuscripts of Bishops of The Protestant Episcopal Church (MA 364-375). The arrangement of the collection is by Bishops in the order of their consecration and chronological within their portion of the collection. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Rev. Killikelly was the rector of S. Paul's Church in Kittanning, Pennsylvania from 1831-1836.
With a note, in an unknown hand, on the address panel, written over the name and address "Bp: H.U. Onderdonk concerning the loaning of Ep. Churches to other bodies of Xns - & the rights of Vestries in this matter. A valuable letter."
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Concerning the rights of a vestry to loan the church to another denomination; saying that no vestry has the right to loan a church to another denomination; saying that to "lend a Chh as a matter of kindness, when it will be occupied in the spirit of kindness to the denomination lending it, is a different affair, -- & should be judged of by the pastor & vestry conjointly, & always with discreet & prudent motives. To lend it, when such kindness cannot fully be presumed in the borrower, is to violate or jeopard [sic] the rights of the congregation as episcopalians & also the fair expectation of permanent settlements, comfort, & maintenances, on the part of the pastor."
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