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Excerpt from Three Addresses Delivered at the Commencements of the College of St. James, Washington County, Maryland, in 1846, 1847, and 1848 The order of the Addresses is here changed, so as to bring the one of 1847 first before the reader, as containing a brief history of the College. 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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John Barrett Kerfoot was born on March 01, 1816 in Dublin, Ireland, the son of Richard Kerfoot and his wife Christiana Barrett, both of Scotch-Irish extraction. The family removed in 1819 to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where the father died early.
The training Kerfoot received was largely due to the care of William Augustus Muhlenberg, rector of the parish and his lifelong friend. He afterward removed to Flushing, Long Island, to attend the Collegiate Institute which Muhlenberg had established there. Here he graduated and became an instructor, and studied theology under Samuel Seabury and Samuel Roosevelt Johnson. In 1865 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Trinity College and of Doctor of Laws from Cambridge University in 1867.
In 1837 Kerfoot was ordered deacon by The Right Reverend H. U. Onderdonk of New York and returned to work as a teacher with Muhlenberg until 1842. In the meanwhile, in 1840, he was ordained presbyter. In 1842 he removed to Washington County, Maryland, where he became the head of St. James' Hall, afterward the College of St. James. This institution had been founded by Bishop W. R. Whittingham of Maryland. Kerfoot was profoundly influenced in his character and as a teacher by Muhlenberg, and in his theology by Whittingham. The new school flourished and served as the model for St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, and others.
In 1843 Kerfoot visited England and was greatly impressed by the services in the cathedrals, his training under Muhlenberg having led him to appreciate the esthetic side of religion. He also studied the Oxford Movement, then at its height. But, although a High-Churchman of the Seabury, Hobart, Whittingham type, he declined the lead of Pusey and the other Tractarians. The Civil War ruined the college. Kerfoot was opposed to secessionism and many of the students were from the South. In a raid in 1864 Kerfoot was captured by General Jubal Early to be taken to Richmond and held as a hostage. Fortunately he was exchanged and in the same year became president of Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.
In 1865 the Diocese of Pittsburgh was organized and Kerfoot was elected its first bishop. It comprised twenty-four counties in western Pennsylvania. In a population of possibly 700, 000 there were about 1, 700 communicants; but half of the parishes were self-supporting. Kerfoot was consecrated bishop, January 25, 1866, by the presiding bishop, John Henry Hopkins, assisted by Bishops McIlvaine, Whittingham, Williams, Talbot, Coxe, and Clarkson.
In 1867 he attended the first Lambeth Conference and in 1874 the Old Catholic conferences at Freiburg and at Bonn, and the second Lambeth Conference in 1878. Except for a lecture on the "Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures" in a series of lectures on the Evidences of Christianity (1855), edited by Alonzo Potter, Kerfoot left no publications beyond the usual occasional sermons and addresses and Convention charges.
John Barrett Kerfoot played an important part in leading to the reunion of the Episcopal church in the north and south. In the administration of his diocese he was very efficient and at his death the number of communicants was 5, 838, and of the self-supporting parishes, 58. He also built about twenty-seven new churches, revived the old churches and raised sufficient funds to provide religious services.
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Kerfoot was a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He was determined in his resistance to the advance of Ritualism and opposed doctrines connected to it about the Holy Eucharist and "sacramental confession".
In 1842 Kerfoot married Eliza M. Anderson of New York.
