Note 212 — Chapter I

Complaints of the nature indicated, and justifications of ministerial conduct in continuing the practice of “political preaching” increase in number from about 1796 on. The following examples are picked almost at random: The sermon preached by John Eliot at the ordination of Joseph M’Kean, Milton, Mass., November 1, 1797, Boston, 1797, p. 33; James Abercrombie’s Fast Day Sermon, May 9, 1798, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, (n. d.); Eliphalet Porter’s Fast Day Sermon of the same date, at Roxbury, Boston, 1798, p. 22; Samuel Miller’s Fast Day Sermon, also of the same date, at New York, New York, 1798.