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an account of tfte author
in his own chirography, some friendly hand inscribed upon the Narragansett Parish Register,
the following record. " On ye 5th day of December A. D. 1757 ye Revd Doctor James MacSparran died at his House in South Kingstown,
who was minister of S. Paul's Church in ye Narragansett for ye space of Thirty Seven years, and
was decently interred under ye Communion
Table in said Church, on ye sixth day of said
month, Much Lamented by his Parishioners and
all whom he had Acquaintance with."
It is almost solely due to the late enthusiastic
student of Narragansett ecclesiastical records
and traditions, Wilkins Updike, Esqr., of Kingston, the author of the well-known History of
the Narragansett Church, that the memory of
Dr. MacSparran has been kept green. Nor need
there be conceived any nobler or more eloquent
eulogy than the simple sentences, in which Mr.
Updike summarizes the career of the honoured
veteran.
"Thus ended," he writes, "the pilgrimage of
the most able Divine that was sent over to this
country by the Society for the Propagation of
the Gospel. With manly firmness, and with the
undaunted courage of the Christian soldier,
ready to combat and die in the hallowed cause,
he triumphed over all the difficulties of this laborious and untried mission. Clad in gospel armour, and inspired by a supreme love to God, he
succeeded in planting the Church of the Re-
[ xliv ]
| Title | A letter book and abstract of out services written during the years 1743-1751 |
| Creator | MacSparran, James |
| Publisher | D.B. Updike, Merrymount Press |
| Place of Publication | Boston |
| Date | 1899 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000055 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | an account of tfte author in his own chirography, some friendly hand inscribed upon the Narragansett Parish Register, the following record. " On ye 5th day of December A. D. 1757 ye Revd Doctor James MacSparran died at his House in South Kingstown, who was minister of S. Paul's Church in ye Narragansett for ye space of Thirty Seven years, and was decently interred under ye Communion Table in said Church, on ye sixth day of said month, Much Lamented by his Parishioners and all whom he had Acquaintance with." It is almost solely due to the late enthusiastic student of Narragansett ecclesiastical records and traditions, Wilkins Updike, Esqr., of Kingston, the author of the well-known History of the Narragansett Church, that the memory of Dr. MacSparran has been kept green. Nor need there be conceived any nobler or more eloquent eulogy than the simple sentences, in which Mr. Updike summarizes the career of the honoured veteran. "Thus ended," he writes, "the pilgrimage of the most able Divine that was sent over to this country by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. With manly firmness, and with the undaunted courage of the Christian soldier, ready to combat and die in the hallowed cause, he triumphed over all the difficulties of this laborious and untried mission. Clad in gospel armour, and inspired by a supreme love to God, he succeeded in planting the Church of the Re- [ xliv ] |
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