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A Young Woman Teacher of Exceptional Talent Put Forward as Headmistress of the new Girls School in 1873

1873160861873. Edward Freeman. Autograph Letter Signed. April 2 1873 Somerleaze Wells Somerset England. 4 pages on a single sheet folded. To "My Dear Lord" possibly a Bishop About a teacher who is too talented to be a governess whose name he puts forward as a candidate for headmistress of a new girls' school. Stating in part "I see your name as a "Patron of the new Girls School to be set up at Manchester." I do not know whether that word is to be taken in the ecclesiastical sense as employing that you have a voice in disposing of offices in it. If so I would venture to recommend a candidate for the place of Head Mistress which I hear that the Committee are going about to fill one whom I am sure you will find it a great gain to put at the head of the new institution. This is Miss Macarthur who has been governess in my house for nearly five years and who is just now leaving us because all my daughters are now grown up. She is in correspondence with Miss Vernon to whom Mrs. Kitchener first spoke of her and she has asked me to say what I can for her to any of the Committee. I think the best witness of my opinion of her is that I have set her to write one of my series of small histories a History of Scotland which I hope will soon be out. She is a woman of powers far above the common and I can witness that she has practiced them well in the only two departments of which I am able to judge namely those of History and language. She is really strong in both; for though she does not actually understand Latin and Greek she knows all about them their relation to French English etc. I am sure she would do credit to the place. We are most anxious to find some post for her more independent than that of a private governess." Unfortunately Miss Macarthur was not appointed; there being far better qualified candidates competing for this sought after position. She was Margaret A.R. Macarthur born in Scotland in 1842 and was the author of 'History of Scotland' in Freeman's Historical Course for Schools. It would be interesting to find out what happened to her. In fine condition. unknown

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[Second Great Awakening – Old School-New School Controversy – Upstate New York] Rawson, Rev Thomas ReedBiblio.com

1832 Letter from Thomas Reed Rawson Then a Student at Auburn Theological Seminary Discussing the â€œvery peculiarâ€ and â€œvery sinisterâ€ Spiritual Condition of Upstate New York

1832List3436Auburn New York 1832. Single four-page letter measuring 7 Â¾ x 9 Â¾ inches. Folded with very small tears at folds. Excellent to Near Fine. A letter written from the Auburn Theological Seminary in 1832 from the soon-to-be Reverend Thomas Reed Rawson 1803-1877 to his soon-to-be wife Louisa W. Dawes 1810â€“1849. Dawes who lived in Cummington Massachusetts was the older sister of Senator Henry Laurens Dawes best known for the 1887 Dawes Act. Rawson opens by commenting on the death of one of his students and his time spent in Oswego â€œvisiting in the most fashionable familiesâ€; he felt this taught him a great deal about â€œhuman natureâ€ which in Oswego is â€œpeculiarâ€. He seems to have been particularly perplexed by the spiritual character he encountered in upstate New York a locus of the Christian revival movement now called the Second Great Awakening: â€œYou know I expected that the spirit of the west was a more active . spirit than what was seen in the N.E. states & hoped by breathing this pure atmosphere to enjoy great spiritual health. How erroneous was the impression! How greatly have I been deceived! . I acted as though it was so â€“ as though man was man only in certain latitudes. I acted as though face answered to face only when seen in the waters of N.E. & consequently that the heart of a N.E. man had no analogy to what beats in the bosom of one born in a more western longitude.â€ Not only is Rawson nonplussed by New Yorkersâ€™ religious qualities he is vehemently opposed to some of the new practices that arose from the religious revival there: â€œThe state of things here I mean in all this country at the west is very peculiar. You have heard of â€˜Old & New Measuresâ€™ I suppose. For myself I cannot approve of the latter. I find not a spirit in me to Fellowship them. Have been exceedingly tried by them as I have been in the midst of â€˜new measuresâ€™ all winter. You can form but a faint idea of the excitement which is in this country in the religious community. In Oswego Co. the lay-men are going through the Co. holding meetings once a month in praying exhorting dispensing the duties of Clergymen &c. &c.; & it seems that the present state of things must result in a wide division in the churches. â€˜A house divided against itself cannot stand.â€™ . As near as I can find out very sinister is the spirit that knows the new measures to that wild-pine which ran so extensively in the time of Edwards. The effects of it are seen in your town to this day.â€ The â€œNew Measuresâ€ were novel practices for American Christianity that came about during the Second Great Awakening mainly due to Presbyterian minister Charles Finney. These include very lengthy meetings public naming of sinners and public confessions of sin and were controversial with those who preferred a more orthodox and restrained service. Rawson accurately predicts that the new practices would lead to a schism; starting in 1837 the Old School-New School Controversy split the Presbyterian church along these lines. He later worries that such a division in the church would allow â€œCatholicism to take the advantageâ€ and that â€œSatan is bringing this about as rapidly as possibleâ€. The appeal of a strong hierarchical Catholic church as opposed to a weak and divided Protestant one was a common worry among Protestants at the time. Rawson traces the â€œsinister spiritâ€ of the new measures back to â€œthe time of Edwardsâ€: Jonathan Edwards a key figure in the First Great Awakening of the 1730s and 40s. Given his reference to â€œyour townâ€â€”Cummington Massachusettsâ€”Rawson is probably referring to the so-called â€œNew England theologyâ€ that arose from the First Great Awakening. Among other things New England theology proposed new views on manâ€™s free will and responsibility; similar views would create controversy in Rawsonâ€™s time as he explains: â€œI see my own heart to be depraved & wicked beyond all observation but the fruits of the spirit I think I do love & hope they are sweeter & more sweet to my taste. I say taste the New measure-men are not taste-men but believe in the â€˜motive schemeâ€™ â€” By taste is meant the implantation of a new principle â€“ love to God & is affected by the Holy Spirit. The â€˜motive schemeâ€™ implies that the sinner turns himself about in by motive merely.â€ He is objecting to the idea that a sinner could redeem himself through an act of his own willâ€”by his own â€˜motives.â€™ Old School Presbyterianism holds a more orthodox Calvinist view wherein the redemption of the sinner is not up to the sinnerâ€™s will at all. Rawson makes an interesting comparison between New School views on the matter and statesâ€™ rights in the context of the then-ongoing nullification crisis: â€œThe signs of the times declare most plainly to him who has wiped up his eyes that â€˜the end has come upon the four corners of this earthâ€™ i.e. the end of peaceful days for the present. Never was our Republic brought to a crisis like this. Nullification in the Political world is the same with Denunciation in the Religious world. This is my opinion; donâ€™t know as have heard others say so.â€ The nullification crisis arose when South Carolina declared that several import tariffs were unconstitutional and thus nullified them under the statesâ€™ rights doctrine of state nullification. Rawson seems to be drawing a parallel between the revivalistsâ€™ idea of the role of oneâ€™s motives in salvation and statesâ€™ rights advocatesâ€™ idea of the relationship between the statesâ€™ wills and the federal governmentâ€™s. Of course the statesâ€™ rights issue would soon reach an apotheosis. Rawson closes with some affectionate lines for Dawes and advice about her own teaching job; the crossed text updates her on the Christian conversions within his family. Overall the letter provides detailed insights into the views of a more conservative theology student on the Presbyterian controversy that was soon to come to a head. unknown

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