Thomas Atkinson papers, 1841-1879.

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Thomas Atkinson papers, 1841-1879.

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Correspondence with Bishop William Rollinson Whittingham and other papers concerning Atkinson's career, affairs of the Dioceses of Maryland and North Carolina, and the Episcopal Church in general. Much material relates to Atkinson's rectorship of St. Peter's Church, Baltimore, 1843-1851, and his founding of Grace Church, Baltimore, 1850-1853, with references to other churches. Approximately three hundred sermons, mostly manuscripts, reveal the bishop's interests, views, and theological beliefs. These include sermons on national blessings, 1845, and on morals, missions, the Church of England, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, the Sunday School Union, the pew rent system, and the death of Bishop Whittingham, 1879. Atkinson's primary charge to the Diocese of North Carolina, 1855, stressed the need for the Church to reach the mass of society, to have ministers from more than one class, to encourage education, and to relax the rubrics in order to permit flexibility of worship. His letters deal with many subjects, among them the Society for Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge, the American Bible Society, the Church Beneficial Society of Baltimore, and the General Theological Seminary in New York City. There are views on baptism, ritualism, and relations with the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England (especially the Lambeth Conference of 1867); descriptions of Atkinson's parochial visitations in North Carolina and his performance of episcopal services for Bishop Whittingham in Maryland, 1869; and comments on many bishops, among them Theodore B. Lyman, and other clergy, including Nathaniel Hewitt and Horatio H. Hewitt. Other papers relate to work of the Committee on Theological Education appointed by the House of Bishops, 1871; a request for an assistant bishop for North Carolina, 1872; and opposition to a division of the diocese, 1877. Civil War items deal with the separation of the Episcopal Churches North and South, and minor matters. A memorandum of 1865 by Bishop Whittingham describes his meeting with Atkinson at the first General Convention after the war and Atkinson's role in reuniting the Churches. Beginning with 1865, there are references to church work for Blacks, including Atkinson's support of the Freedmans' Commission. He visits Washington to plead the cause of freed slaves in the South, 1868. A letter of 1872 concerns a Negro deacon, William F. Floyd, and the Freedmans' Commission in North Carolina. In 1873 Atkinson doubts there is any Black man qualified to be a bishop for the freedmen, but states no qualified man should be rejected because of his color. He proposes a system of suffragan bishops for each diocese to take care of work among Blacks, Indians, Germans, and other minorities.

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