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PRELIMINARY PROCEEDINGS.

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T the annual meeting of the Proprietors of King's Chapel in Boston, held April 26, 1886, the Senior Warden, ARTHUR T. LYMAN, Esq., laid before the meeting a communication from the Minister in relation to having appropriate notice taken of the 15th June, as the two hundredth anniversary of the organization of this church, by putting up a memorial thereof, or otherwise. The subject was referred to the Wardens and Vestry, with full powers.

At a meeting of the Wardens and Vestry, May 2, 1886, the following gentlemen were appointed a Committee to take action in regard to such anniversary:

WILLIAM PERKINS.
JOHN REVERE.

GEORGE HIGGINSON.

GREELY S. CURTIS.

PATRICK T. JACKSON.

J. RANDOLPH COOLIDGE, JR.

This Committee subsequently reported, at the meeting of the Wardens and Vestry, held Nov. 18, 1886, as follows:

REPORT.

The Wardens and Vestry having appointed a committee to report to them a plan for the proper Commemoration of the Two Hundredth Year of Church Life of King's Chapel, which was founded June 15, 1686, and celebrated its first communion service on the second Sabbath of August, 1686,- the following is proposed :

It having been impracticable in the midsummer season of general dispersion to gather our whole congregation for a service which is of universal interest to them, it was thought best to defer the Commemoration until this time. It is now recommended that Wednesday, December 15, be fixed as the day for such a service, and that these arrangements be made for its fit observance :

1. A committee of the Vestry, increased by a number of young and active members of the congregation, to carry out the necessary details.

2. Invitations to be sent to all persons now or formerly connected with the church, so far as they can be ascertained; to ministers of the older churches and leading persons in the city; and to such others as may be deemed best.

3. The service to consist of special music by a large choir, and of addresses by the following persons:

The GOVERNOR, as the successor of eight Royal Governors who worshipped here;

The following persons who were born into and brought up in King's Chapel, namely:

THE PRESIDENT OF HARVARD COLLEGE;

Rev. DR. JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE ;

Rev. FRANCIS GREENWOOD PEABODY;

Rev. Dr. FARLEY, of Brooklyn, N. Y.;

Rev. Dr. THAYER, of Newport, R. I.; and others;

Members of the present congregation; as Rev. Dr. PEABODY and Dr. OLIVER Wendell HOLMES;

The MINISTER of the OLD SOUTH CHURCH, in remembrance of its special connection with our history;

A REPRESENTATIVE of the EPISCOPAL CHURCH, of which King's Chapel was the mother-church in New England.

4. It is also recommended that some social meeting for the evening of the same day be arranged for, if practicable.

5. To perpetuate the remembrance of this historic occasion, it is recommended that a design be obtained, and a bronze or marble tablet or monument placed in the church, marking the special connection of King's Chapel with the early history of this country, and recording some of the names of those associated with the parish in its pre-Revolutionary history.

For the Committee.

WILLIAM PERKINS,

Chairman.

The Wardens and Vestry accordingly

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Voted, That Rev. HENRY W. FOOTE be added to the original Committee; and that the Committee be authorized to increase their number to sixteen by the addition of gentlemen connected with the parish, - the Committee so enlarged to be empowered to make all the arrangements necessary for the proper celebration, on Wednesday the fifteenth day of December, on the completion of two hundred years since the foundation of this parish; and that they are also authorized, if deemed expedient, to prepare a Memorial Volume, containing the addresses made at the celebration, and other historic matters connected therewith."

The Committee proceeded accordingly to add to their number the following gentlemen:

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Invitations to the Commemoration were extended to a large number of ministers of the older churches in Massachusetts of different denominations; to ministers of churches deriving their descent from King's Chapel before

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