Charles Inglis Day: a day to praise the old Toryism of country rectors
In 1891, Arthur Wentworth Eaton - Canadian born, but a graduate of Harvard and a cleric of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States - wrote his The Church of England in Nova Scotia and the Tory Clergy of the Revolution . His judgement on the Nova Scotia Anglicanism into which he had been born was withering: The chief defect of the Churchmanship of Nova Scotia, is a lack of intellectual breadth, the result of the isolation of the diocese from great centres of thought and action, and there have consequently been many places where the attitude of the Church towards other religious bodies has been narrow and intolerant ... In Nova Scotia the Church may hold her own, but she can never gain greatly until her clergy come to understand that she is not simply the ancient Church of England, or the Church of the Tory people of the American Revolution, but that she is also a Church with infinite powers of adaptation to the intellects and hearts of nineteenth century me...