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Resources on the Church of the Advent, Boston


Two early daguerrotypes of the interior of the Church of the Advent, submitted by Julianne Turé.

James Aaron Bolles, 1810-1894

Charles Chapman Grafton, 1830-1912

Horatio Southgate, 1812-1894


A Letter to the Bishop of Massachusetts, Occasioned by His Late Letter to the Clergy.
By William Croswell, Rector of the Church of the Advent. Together with the Resolutions of the Wardens and Vestry.
Boston: Printed by Tuttle and Dennett. 1845.

Constitution and By-Laws of the Parish of the Advent.
Boston: Hewes & Watson's Print. No. 60 Congress Street., 1846.

The Gospel a Formal and Sacramental Religion. A Sermon preached at the Church of the Advent in Boston, on the Sunday after Christmas, 1845.
By the Rev. C. S. Henry, D.D. Professor of Philosophy and History in the University of the City of New York.
Boston: Charles Stimpson, 1846.

Old Wine in Old Bottles: A Sermon Originally Preached at the Church of the Advent, Boston, and Repeated at St. Anne's Church, Lowell, and at Annunciation, St. Stephen's and Trinity Churches, New York.
By Henry N. Hudson.
Boston: Charles Stimpson, 1850.

The Sacred Sympathy of Sorrow. The Discourse Commemorative of the Rev. William Croswell, D.D. Preached in the Church of the Advent, Boston, (Of Which He Was Rector,) On Sunday, December 7, 1851, At the Request of the Wardens And Vestry. By the Right Rev. George Washington Doane, D.D. Ll.D. Bishop of New Jersey.
Boston: Charles Stimpson, 1852.

The Faithful Witness: Or, The Pastoral Work and Character; As Exemplified in the Life and Death of William Croswell, D.D., First Rector of the Church of the Advent, Boston; Being a Sermon Preached in Said Church on the First Anniversary of His Death, November 9, 1852.
By A. C. Coxe, M.A., Rector of St. John's Church, Hartford, Conn.

Sermon Preached on the Second Anniversary of the Holy Guild of the Church of the Advent Boston, Mass. On the First Sunday of Advent, 1854.
By Horatio Southgate.
Boston: J. Howe, 1855.

The Rest of the Faithful Departed: A Sermon Preached in the Church of the Advent, Boston the Fifth Sunday after Easter, May 13, 1855.
By Moses P. Stickney.
Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, 1855.

Correspondence between the Right Reverend the Bishop of Massachusetts and the Rectors of the Parish of the Advent Boston, A.D. 1845 to A.D. 1856.
Boston: John Wilson and Son, 1856.

The General Convention of 1856. A Sermon preached in the Church of the Advent, Boston, on the 9th of November, 1856. Being the 25th Sunday after Trinity, and the 5th Anniversary of the depature into Life Eternal of the Rev. William Croswell, D.D., late Rector of that Church.
By Horatio Southgate, Rector. Printed by Request, for Private use only.
Boston: Printed by David Clapp, 1856.

Christ in His Ordinances. A Sermon, Preached in King's Chapel, Boston, The Sixth Sunday after Trinity, July 11, 1858. By the Right Rev. Horatio Southgate, D.D., Rector of the Church of the Advent.
Boston: H. W. Dutton and Son, Printers, 1858.

A Sermon Preached in the Church of the Advent, Boston: The Third Sunday after Trinity, June 20, 1858.
To the Memory of William Foster Otis, Late Senior Warden.
By Moses P. Stickney.
Boston: H. W. Dutton and Son, 1858.

A Sermon Preached in the Church of the Advent, Boston, Mass., April 27, 1858, in Commemoration of the Late Rev. Asa Eaton, D.D., Senior Presbyter of the Diocese of Massachusetts.
By Theodore Edson.
Boston: John Wilson and Son, 1858.

Sermons for Some of the Principal Festivals and Fasts of the Church and on Christian Doctrine and Duty: Preached at the Church of the Advent, Boston, Massachusetts.
By Horatio Southgate.
New York: Daniel Dana, 1859. [External link]

Commendatory Letters from the Bishops of Winchester and Oxford, and Correspondence with the Bishop of Massachusetts in Relation to an Invitation Extended by the Parish of the Advent to the Rev. R.M. Benson of Christ Church, Oxford, England.
Boston: Privately printed, 1870.

A Sermon Commemorative of the Reverend Joseph Richey, Preached in Mount Calvary Church, Baltimore, on the Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity, October 21st, 1877.
By William F. Brand, Rector of S. Mary's Church, Harford Co., Maryland.
Baltimore: Innes and Company, 1877.

A Letter on Surpliced Choirs.
By James A. Bolles, D.D. Rector of the Church of the Advent, Boston.
New York: The Church Monthly, 1869.

The Resurrection Life. A Sermon in Memory of the Late George C. Shattuck, M.D.: Preached at the Church of the Advent, Boston, on Low Sunday, 1893.
By Henry A. Coit, D.D.
Boston: Damrell and Upham, 1893.

A Sketch of the History of the Parish of the Advent in the City of Boston 1844-1894.
Boston: The Parish of the Advent, 1894. [External link]

The Priesthood, A Sermon preached by the Rev. Benjamin Harrison Rector of the Church of the Advent. Rector's Tracts, Number One.
Boston: The Church of the Advent, 1936.

Church of the Advent, Boston.
By Mark A. Wuonola, Ph.D.
Boston: The Parish of the Advent, 1975.


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