By James Reid
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If he intended the diary to serve as a record, it was one from which he planned to draw extracts, not one to which others would have access. As such, the diary carries with it all the inherent obscurities of a text intended to recall, rather than to explain, the events it recounts. Yet this in itself infuses the whole with an immediacy too often lacking in other, more artful and self-conscious productions. THE D I A R I S T : A B A C K G R O U N D SKETCH Athough almost fifty-three of Reid's eighty-four years were passed in the parish of St Armand, first as schoolmaster, then as curate, and finally as rector of Trinity Church, Frelighsburg, his roots lay elsewhere, in another country and another tradition.
He said it was erroneous to hold the doctrine of the apostolical succession of the Ministry, that [it] is only a figment... Having argued the point with him but to no purpose, he said that if he believed as I did he would go over to the church of Rome. I said to him if I were to answer you, as you did me, but I will not, ... " It might be tempting to regard Reid's emphasis on episcopacy and the apostolic succession as evidence for a sympathy with the Oxford Movement,33 but this seems unlikely. 37 Reid's veneration for Bishop Stewart led him to sympathize with his brand of missionary zeal, but his distaste for 'enthusiasm' made it difficult for him to accept the style of churchmanship exemplified by such of his fellow clergy as the Rev.
James Jones or the Rev. John C. Davidson, both of whom had previously served in the pulpit as Methodists. 39 The Liturgy of the Church of England he loved: I have just been thinking with gratitude to God [Reid wrote in 1864], what a wonderful, if not a miraculous work, the Liturgy of the Church of England is! When we consider the age in which it was compiled, its state of ignorance, prejudices, superstition, intolerance, confusions and strifes, we may well see that the wisdom of God and His Holy Spirit gu[i]ded the hearts and hands of the Compilers of our Liturgy.
