Professor Hamilton's Diary: Jan. 20, 1935
He isn't pleased with what he hears at church; his pastor was a busy man!
The Hamiltons awoke to a wet and slushy morning due to snow overnight. Nevertheless, they loaded up the car and took Gwennie to church and Sunday school. “Then Margaret and I went to St. Mary’s Chapel to hear Rev. Smythe. He had a theological sermon on the trinity vs. unitarian, which did not suit me as I am theologically unitarian,” he wrote.
I can’t go into this very complicated subject in a short post, but if you are curious what Unitarians believe, click here.
The photo of St. Mary’s Chapel on Windsor Street, which dates from 1906, is being offered by a seller on eBay. The church opened in 1904.
What has been confusing to me since I started reading the diary is the way the Hamiltons take Gwennie to Sunday school and then go to church, as if they were going somewhere else. But that may be what they were doing. Paid subscribers can read on about the very busy rector of three Episcopal churches in Reading.
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