DIOCESE OF FLORIDA. JOURNAL OF THE THE TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL CONVENTION. MDCCCLXXI.
Tallahassee: Dyke & Son, Book and Job Printers, 1871. 41, [1 blank] pp. Stitched in original printed wrappers. Minor wear, Very Good plus.
Financial difficulties during Reconstruction dominate this Diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Reverend Scull reported that during the year he had "celebrated the Rites of Matrimony on four different occasions, viz: Whites, 2; Colored, 2. He further begs leave o sate that, on account of the frequent separations betwen man and wife, among the colored people, he has determined to celebrate the Rites of Matrimony but seldom between them."
Bishop Young reports that he "admitted to the Holy order of Deacons, Joseph Robert Love. Mr. Love is a colored man who was educated and employed for some years in teaching in Church Schools in the British West Indies. He asked for no dispensations from the full requirements demanded by the canons, but sustained a protracted and searching examination on the full course of study, including the Latin and Greek languages. He is to. . . minister to a colored congregation under the supervision of the Rector of S. Johns. And I earnestly hope and pray that this may be but the firswt beginning of a work of real blessing to that race for whose improvement and elevation we are bound by so many considerations to do all that we can."
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