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Huntington was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1838. He was the son of Elisha Huntington, a physician, and Hannah (Hinckley) Huntington, who was of Mayflower stock.
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William Reed Huntington (September 20, 1838 – July 26, 1909) was an American Episcopal priest and author.
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Huntington was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1838. He was the son of Elisha Huntington, a physician, and Hannah (Hinckley) Huntington, who was of Mayflower stock.
From 1853 to 1855 he was a student at Norwich University, Vt. , and in the latter year entered Harvard University, from which he graduated in 1859.
Deciding to enter the ministry of the Episcopal Church, he studied under the Rev. Frederic Dan Huntington, afterwards bishop of Central New York, and assisted at Emmanuel Church, Boston.
Ordained December 3, 1862, he became the rector of All Saints Church, Worcester, Massachussets, which parish he served for twenty-one years. When the church building burned, he energetically gathered funds for the erection of a notable stone edifice of architectural beauty. His interest in religious art, thus stimulated, grew until he became a sensitive guide to the whole Church in matters of taste and reverence, his influence culminating in the part which he took in the founding and building of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. Not only was he a wise and progressive rector in the expanding life of a large parish, but he became a leader in the conventions of the diocese. In these years were born his chief interests: the revision of the Book of Common Prayer, the comprehensiveness of the Church, and church unity. By sermons, books, resolutions in General Convention, and membership on commissions, he advocated a broad inclusiveness which influenced the thinking and action of many different religious denominations.
In 1883, he became the rector of Grace Church, New York. Soon he was the leading presbyter of the Episcopal Church, the confidential adviser of the clergy and laity, and the promoter of every good work in the city and in the nation. "The study in Grace Church rectory, " it was said, "became the clergy's confessional box". Declining many elections as bishop, he remained the loved and honored rector of his great New York parish. Having an instinct for liturgical expression, he determined to lead the Church to a revision of the Prayer Book in the interests of a sane modernity and enrichment. "We certainly do not want to Americanize the Prayer Book in any vulgar sense, " he wrote, "but at the same time we cannot forget that it is in America we live, and to Americans we minister". He was a member of the joint committee on the Book of Common Prayer appointed in 1880, and The Book Annexed to the Report of the Joint-Committee . .. (1883) was the result of years of study by him, and led the way to the revision of the Prayer Book in 1892.
The dominant purpose of his life, however, was to prepare the way for a common standing ground for all Christians. The divisions of Christendom were to him a fatal weakness. He sought to remove differences by advocating a few great structural ideas with liberty of interpretation. He felt that the Episcopal Church was "the only Church anywhere which so much as attempts to do equal justice both to the sacramentalists and the antisacramentalists. " The basis of union he found in these four principles: first, the Holy Scriptures as the Word of God; second, the primitive creeds as the rule of faith; third, the two Sacraments ordained by Christ himself; and fourth, the Episcopate as the center or keystone of governmental unity. These principles were afterwards embodied in the famous Quadrilateral accepted by the Lambeth Conference in 1889, and became a challenge to all the Churches and the points around which most of the efforts toward church unity have revolved. He discussed them extensively in three of his books: The Church-Idea (1870, 5th edition, 1928), The Peace of the Church (1891), and A National Church (1898).
In sermons and addresses at church congresses, he popularized the thought of Christian unity. For twenty-two years he served as a trustee of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. During this time, his influence was everywhere felt, in the constitution of the cathedral, in the selection of designs and architects, and in the securing of funds for its erection. A fitting memorial to his varied and up-lifting life is to be found in the beautiful Huntington Memorial Chapel, in this cathedral. Mystical and poetical in temperament, he wrote occasional verse, which he collected and published as Sonnets and a Dream (1899, 2nd edition, 1903). Among his other writings were: The Causes of the Soul (1891), The Spiritual House (1895), Psyche (1899), Four Key Words of Religion (1899), Briefs on Religion (1902), and A Good Shepherd (1906). In connection with Prayer Book revision he wrote A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer (1893), Popular Misconceptions of the Episcopal Church (1891), and Theology's Eminent Domain (1902). His Twenty Years of a Massachusetts Rectorship (1883) and Twenty Years of a New York Rectorship (1903) contain biographical material.
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He was married, October 14, 1863, to Theresa, daughter of Dr. Edward Reynolds of Boston.