Reverend Charles Richardson Baker
Son of Abijah Richardson Baker and Harriette Newell Woods [b Medford Mass 15 Apr 1842]. Medford Vital records has his middle name as Richard.
This engraving is scanned from a green suede book of prayer that belonged to his niece, Harriette Woods Baker. The title is Prayers For the Christian Year by Rev. Charles R. Baker. Inside inscription reads : "To Harriette W. Baker, with love from Aunt Mary."
Title page reads :
PRAYERS
FOR THE CHRISTIAN YEAR
AND FOR SPECIAL
OCCASSIONS
BY
CHARLES R. BAKER, D.D.
The Knickerbocker Press
New York
1900
Preface reads :
Preface
These prayers are designed not for use as substitutes for those of the Book of Common Prayer, but to supplement them. The stately forms best adapted to liturgical and public prayer are for that reason less fit for family or private use. Sometimes after the sermon the earnest pastor feels the need of more fervor than belongs to liturgical prayers. So many years have been given to the study of this subject that it is not possible now to remember all my indebtedness in this volume. Of modern writers of prayers, I am sensible of owing most to Mr. Beecher, though I have tried to keep clear of the hortatory form which intrudes so often even with him, and to adhere to direct address to God, which in my judgement, is essential to prayer.
CHARLES R. BAKER,
Church of the Messiah, Brooklyn,
1897.
The following excerpts I used to track the career of Rev. Charles R. Baker. They are from reports I've gathered from various online sources, extracted from various newspapers.
Marriages for January 1st -January 31st.
LEWIS-SEIBERT: Thurs., January 8, by Rev. Dr. Charles R. Baker, at the chapel of the Church of the MessiahCharolott Reichel, Daughter of Mary H. Reichel Seibert, to Arthur Stanley Lewis both of Brooklyn. source: 1895 Bklyn Eagle Index Marriage JanuaryBROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE 1895Index (Found at Queens Borough Library, Jamaica NY)Marriages for the month of January
4 March 1893EpiscopalChurch of the Messiah, Greene and Clermont Aves., Rev. Charles R. BAKER, Rector. Morning service, 10:30. Evening service, 7:30. Sixth lecture on"Crime and Punishment." Subject, "Relationship of Education To Crime."
( source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blkyn/Worship/BSU.worship.html )
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