SERMONS - University of Tennessee, Knoxville

SoutHeRn MAnuScRipt SeRMonS BefoRe 1800
The places preached show that Bend was pleased with the sermon and must have
considered it among his best or most important. The bottom of the front cover, with
page 30 on the reverse side, is worn and frayed, so that the last line of the sermon is
lost. An insert of eight unnumbered pages, probably of a later date than the original
sermon, urges the partaking of Communion as a means of attaining grace. The last
page of the sermon contains a list of baptisms to be recorded in the parish register.
Keywords: Holy Communion; Sermon on the Mount; prophets, false; hypocrites;
repentance, efficacious; Christians, sincere; religious life; life, religious;
240. BEND, JOSEPH GROVE JOHN. (MD; Epis.; 1762-1812; ord. 1787)
“For the Fund proposed in Canon 16th.” [1794] 1 + 1 blank + 30pp. [Acc. No. 1981]
Repository: F. Garner Ranney Archives of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland,
Baltimore, MD
Bib. Ref.: 2 Ep. Tim: Ch 1, V 13. “Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou
hast heard of me.” 1 Ep: Cor: Ch 9, V 11. “If we have sown unto you Spiritual
things, is it a great thing, if we shall reap your carnal things?”
Commentary: Notes on the cover read “Scr[ipsit] Mar 6, 1794,” and “Preached in
St Paul’s, B[altimore] A M, Mar. 9, 1794. Xt Chh. [Baltimore] Oct 23, 1803, with
necessary alterations.” The 16th Canon of the Canons, for the Government of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in Maryland (1793), states: “A Sermon shall be annually
preached in the several Parishes of this State, and a Collection made for the
Purpose of raising a Fund for defraying the Expenses incurred by the Bishop in the
Discharge of his Episcopal Functions; for supporting a Missionary or Missionaries,
whose Duty it shall be to attend to and preach in the vacant Churches; and for
such other Purposes, as to the Convention shall appear conducive to the Good of
the Church, to have promoted.” Bend bracketed some passages of the sermon for
omission at subsequent preachings.
Keywords: Church, support of the; Episcopal Church, government of; Episcopal
Church, history of; Claggett, Bishop Thomas John;
241. BEND, JOSEPH GROVE JOHN. (MD; Epis.; 1762-1812; ord. 1787)
“[Funeral Sermon.]” [1799] 1 + 1 blank + 16 + 8 + 2pp. [Acc. No. 2168]
Repository: F. Garner Ranney Archives of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland,
Baltimore, MD
Bib. Ref.: Eph: Ch 5, V 16. “Redeeming the time.”
Commentary: Notes on the cover read “Preached May 1799, at C Rogers’s, at funl.
of A Martin’s wife [not entered in the parish register]. Aug 23, 1809 [at] Z Chaney’s,
[at funeral of] G Gary’s do. [Frances, wife of Gideon Gary]. Xt ch [, Baltimore,] A
M, alluding to the destructive fire at Richmond, Jany. 5, 1812. St Paul’s, [Baltimore,]
with an additional allusion to the death of Mrs E Rogers, Jan 12, [18]12.” Mrs
Rogers’ funeral is also not in the parish register. Bend originally included the
complete biblical verse, but he later struck out the words, “because the days are
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