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George David Cummins was born on December 11, 1822 near Smyrna, Delaware, the third child of George Cummins and his second wife, Maria Durborow. The former was of Scotch descent, a well-to-do landowner, and prominent in the state; the latter, of English lineage, and the daughter of Rev. John Durborow. When the boy was four years old his father died.
He received his early education at a school kept by a Presbyterian minister named Russell in Newark, New Jersey, and through the influence of his mother who was a Methodist, though her husband had been an Episcopalian, he entered a Methodist College, Dickinson, from which he graduated in 1841, valedictorian of his class.
He was converted and joined the Methodist Church. Anticipating becoming a minister of that denomination, he was for two or three years a circuit-rider under appointment of the Baltimore Conference, but the desire for a settled home and his liking for the liturgy of the Episcopal Church turned him to the latter, and he was confirmed in St. Andrew’s Church, Wilmington, Delaware, April 20, 1845, and ordained deacon there by Bishop Lee, October 26, 1845.
For a time he was assistant at Christ Church, Baltimore, but on June 17, 1847, was elected rector of Christ Church, Norfolk, Va. On July 6, 1847, at Wilmington, was ordained priest. His pastorate at Norfolk lasted till July 1853.
During the cholera epidemic of 1849, he ministered to all classes of sufferers until, the plague having spent itself, he retired to his father-inlaw’s, where he himself developed the disease.
He was rector of St. James’s, Richmond, Virginia (1853 - 54); Trinity, Washington (1855—58), declining in 1856 a call to St. Thomas’s, New York; St. Peter’s, Baltimore (1858 - 63); and Trinity, Chicago, where he remained until elected assistant bishop of the Diocese of Kentucky, to which office he was consecrated by Bishop Hopkins at Christ Church, Louisville, November 15, 1866.
Seven years later, November 10, 1873, in a letter to his diocesan, Bishop Smith, who was also presiding bishop, be announced his intention of leaving the communion, and transferring his work and office to another sphere. The condition which led him to take this radical step was the effort of the extreme Anglo- Catholic element in the church to symbolize their doctrines in worship by a return to preReformation usages.
He was formally deposed from his office and ministry, June 24, 1874. In the meantime, however, a meeting of clergymen and laymen was held in New York, December 2, 1873, at which the Reformed Episcopal Church was inaugurated, Bishop Cummins being elected presiding officer and Rev. C. E. Cheney elected bishop, and later consecrated by Bishop Cummins.
The brief remainder of his life was spent in the service of the new church, his death occurring at his home in Lutherville, Maryland, less than two years later.
In addition to a Life of Mrs. Virginia Hale Hoffman (1859), he published several sermons.
Ordained a priest in 1847, George became a distinguished preacher and served several important parishes in the eastern United States and in Chicago. Consecrated an assistant bishop of Kentucky in 1866, he was one of the younger leaders of the evangelicals and soon found himself in the midst of the controversy over ritual, which reached its peak in the Episcopal church in the years following the American Civil War. Those who despaired of the future of evangelicalism within the church appealed to him as early as 1869, seeking to persuade him to begin organizing a new body. At first reluctant to make a break, he organized the Reformed Episcopal Church in December 1873 in New York City and became its first presiding bishop.
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Both by temperament and early training he himself was an ardent evangelical. In every way possible he opposed the practises of the Ritualists “as subversive of the truth ‘as it is in Jesus’ and as it was maintained and defended by the Reformers of the sixteenth century. ” At first he thought the error could be checked, and combated any suggestion that the evangelicals leave the church, declaring in 1869 that “to go out of her communion because there is treachery within is to lower the flag and surrender the citadel to her enemies”. Finally he lost all hope that the evil would be eradicated by any action of the authorities of the church, and became convinced that by officiating in Ritualistic churches, he was sanctioning and indorsing dangerous errors. These feelings together with the criticisms he brought upon himself by participating in a communion service in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, October 12, 1873, during a meeting of the Evangelical Alliance, at length caused him to withdraw from the Episcopal Church.
His natural gifts, devotion to his work, and power as a preacher, led important churches to seek his services.
George was married to Alexandrine Macomb Balch, daughter of Hon. L. P. W. Balch of West Virginia.
