CHAPTER X

THE TEMPORALITIES:   1810-1850

" I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof,
and for all that shall be don© therein."—Ezekiel 44 : 14.

"The house does not belong to us, but to him; and therefore we are bound to
husband the property entrusted to us, for the best interests of his kingdom."—
Gardiner Spring, "The Brick Church Memorial," p. 39.

THE period of forty years upon which we now
enter is crowded with events, and we are
fortunately provided with full information
in regard to it, so that we shall be able to follow the
history in all necessary detail. It would not, however,
be desirable to proceed by a strictly chronological
method. Various interests of the church developed
side by side, and it would be only confusing to attempt
to deal with them all together in one interwoven
narrative. It will be best, therefore, to treat each
main group of subjects in a separate chapter, with
the understanding that each of these chapters covers
the same period, and that the events and develop¬
ments described in any one of them were contem¬
porary with those described in the others. This
arrangement is the more feasible because the whole
period may be regarded as a unit: it was not divided
into parts by any events of critical importance, but
consisted of one continuous development.

The material may be conveniently divided into
five parts; first, the temporalities of the church, its

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