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Excerpt from The Church of the Household The other and truer thought looks to the kingdom of God as always in its permanent forces within - something which enters into man as light into a dark room, removing the blackness and gloom, scattering the birds of evil omen, and the vile, insect, passion-idols, bringing In a truer life and a better hope - something, if superadded, yet absorbed and made identical with the recipient. In such a thought of religion all outer means are of avail only as they kindle the ray-power in the soul as they, by a second birth as against evil, give the soul its power over itself, and develope the real manhood of the Christian. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Charles Henry Hall was born on November 7, 1820, in Augusta, Georgia, United States, the son of Charles and Margaret (Reid) Hall. He traced his descent from Hugh Hall, a planter in Barbados. The latter’s son, Hugh, who had been a prominent official there and was often in New England, died at Boston in 1732.
Charles was educated in the North, preparing for college at Phillips Andover Academy, and in 1842 graduating from Yale College. While in college he became an Episcopalian, and after completing his course began to prepare for the ministry. Without being a member of the theological school, Charles Henry Hall studied Biblical literature at Andover, Massachusetts, continuing his work at Hartford, Connecticut, and later at the General Theological Seminary, New York.
Hall was ordained deacon, August 25, 1844, at St. Paul’s Church, Red Hook, New York. In the spring of 1845, having spent the previous winter in Augusta, he took charge of St. John’s Church, Huntington, Long Island, and was ordained presbyter on November 12, in St. James’ Church, Fair Haven, Connecticut. From Easter 1847 to the summer of 1848 he was rector of the Church of the Holy Innocents, West Point, New York, serving also as chaplain of the United States Military Academy.
For the next eight years Hall was in charge of St. John’s Church, John’s Island, South Carolina. Having many slaves among his parishioners, he assiduously schooled himself to preach with a simplicity and directness which would make the gospel clear to their understanding, and was revered by them as a prophet. The last thirty-nine years of his life were spent in Washington, where Hall was rector of the Church of the Epiphany (1856-1869), and in Brooklyn, where he succeeded Dr. Abram N. Littlejohn at Holy Trinity, when the latter became bishop of Long Island.
In Washington, preceding and during the Civil War, he ministered to a church divided in its sentiments with great tact and effectiveness. Jefferson Davis occupied a pew there until the secession, after which it was taken by Secretary Stanton. The church was used as a hospital during the war, and it was on one of Henry Ward Beecher’s visits to Brooklyn soldiers in Washington that he became acquainted with Hall, and there began the long and intimate friendship between the two which resulted in Beecher’s request that this Episcopal rector should conduct his funeral service. He served as chaplain of the 23rd Regiment, was civil service commissioner and park commissioner. In addition to his parish duties, he was chairman of the standing committee of the diocese, chancellor of the cathedral.
In True Protestant Ritualism (1867), Hall made a virile attack on High Church tendencies as expressed in The Law of Ritualism by Bishop Hopkins. His volume of sermons, The Valley of the Shadow (1878), was criticized because of alleged unorthodox views on future punishment With S. B. Whitely, he edited the Hymnal: According to the Use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (1872); and besides individual sermons and addresses, he published Spina Christi, Musings in Holy Week (1874), and The Church of the Household (1877). His death occurred in Brooklyn just before the completion of his seventy-fifth year.
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Although a Southerner and a Democrat, Charles Hall was a strong Unionist, and in Washington, preceding and during the Civil War, he ministered to a church divided in its sentiments with great tact and effectiveness. As a rule Charles Henry Hall did not bring politics into the pulpit, but he did not hesitate to speak on civic and social reforms. Charles was an active supporter of Grover Cleveland for president.
Charles Henry Hall was a member of the Masonic circles.
A man of athletic build and energy, at home everywhere, broad-minded, tolerant, and sympathetic, yet loyal to his own convictions, Hall was beloved and trusted.
On March 2, 1848, Charles Henry Hall married Annie Maria Cumming of Augusta, who died November 2, 1855, from the effects of an accident. On September 10, 1857, he married Lizzie, daughter of George C. Ames of Washington.
