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Enos Nuttall Centenary Lecture ENOS NUTTALL PUBLIC LECTURE DELIVERED BY PROFESSOR PATRICK BRYAN PROFESSOR EMERITUS IN HISTORY THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES AT THE MICO UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ON TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2016 _________________________________________________________________ Archbishop Enos Nuttall and the Outreach of the Anglican Church in Jamaica, 1862-1916. In this lecture I will focus on Archbishop Enos Nuttall’s transformational leadership of the Church of England in Jamaica, together with his vision and ideas about the furtherance of his Jamaican and international Christian mission. I will examine how, under Nuttall’s leadership the Anglican Church not only over-rode the financial crisis created by disestablishment in 1870 but entered a period of expansion of churches, missions and schools. Nuttall’s work also needs to be understood against the background of Empire, race, culture and class in late nineteenth century Jamaica, since missionary work had to confront racial and class attitudes which were at the forefront of the consciousness of most Jamaican citizens (white, brown and black) who prided themselves on their membership of the British Empire. 1 Enos Nuttall (born January 26, 1842) arrived in Jamaica in 1862 from England as a Methodist lay missionary, but with residual links to the Anglican Church. In 1866, one year after the Morant Bay Rebellion and the year of Jamaica’s adoption of Crown Colony Government, Nuttall was ordained a priest of the Anglican Church, Island Curate and appointed to St. George’s in Kingston. Nuttall’s explanation of his break with the Wesleyans exemplifies his strong belief in cooperation between Christian churches: no doubt bearing in mind that John Wesley, an Anglican priest, never left the Anglican Church. I found that the Methodist society of Jamaica was so worked as not to admit of their association of its members with the Church of England which John Wesley first intended and steadily maintained as far as he could, and which I had been familiar with. .With my experience, training, habits and predilections, it seemed to me that I was in any case certain to have withdrawn from the Wesleyan Society as soon as it became apparent that allegiance to the existing Wesleyan organization meant separation from and in a sense antagonism to the Church of England. Such was not the Methodism of Wesley.(Cundall, Life of Enos Nuttall ) Between 1866 and 1870 Nuttall probably dedicated himself mainly to the welfare of his St. Georges congregation; though his welfare involvement at the Sailor's Home and the Kingston Dispensary led his congregation to complain that he seemed too busy for them. He married Lillie Chapman in 1867. There were five children . He emerges briefly in 1865 as part of a joint response of dissenting clergymen who sent a note of congratulation to Governor Eyre on his successful 2 repression of the Morant Bay Rebellion. It is not likely that Nuttall favoured the cruel repression by Eyre. More probably his response mirrored his recent arrival and his profound concern for order. By the time that Nuttall became Bishop in 1880, succeeding Bishops Courtenay and Tozer, he was well known for his strong objections to “excessive ritualism” and the Roman Catholicisation of Anglican ritual. It also became clear that Nuttall believed that leadership of the Church should remain with whites in the medium and long term. Ironically, the bid of Rev. C.F. Douet to become bishop failed because, according to Nuttall himself, the coloured laity made it clear that his white Jamaican heritage could lead to their victimization through his friends. He became Assistant Bishop. The concept of white leadership was to extend to the Deaconess movement. Nuttall also was convinced that the controlling hand of the British government (Crown Colony Government) was needed until “we prove ourselves capable of caring fully and well for all sections and interests in the community.” The Archbishop, then, as a man of conservative inclinations and an exceedingly practical orientation, bought into the idea that the Crown Colony system would provide a balance between contending race and class interests. I now turn to the disestablishment of the Church of England in Jamaica. 3 DISESTABLISHMENT OF THE ANGLICAN CHURCH, 1870. The first bishop of Jamaica, Christopher Lipscomb (11824-43), had arrived in Jamaica in 1825 following the establishment of the Jamaican Diocese in 1824. The Anglican Church remained, until its disestablishment, the official church of the state, from which it received an annual subsidy of close to £40,000. Non- conformists considered the subsidy unjust since the Anglican Church was not the majority church in Jamaica. Sir John Peter Grant (1866-74), the first, and autocratic, governor under the Crown Colony system who was moved less by dissenters’ opinion than by the funds the state would save by disestablishment, made immediately clear his intention to reduce or remove subsidies to the Anglican Church. He ceased to replace clergymen who had died or resigned. Notifying Bishop Courtenay that the Clergy Act that regulated Church state relations, would not be renewed when it expired in 1869 Grant passed Law 30 of 1870 that disestablished the Anglican Church. Although the disestablishment of the Anglican Church took place during Bishop Reginald Courtenay’s tenure, Rev. Nuttall was deeply involved with the adjustment of the Anglican Church to the new reality of a volunteer rather than a subsidized Church. It is not by chance that Nuttall was Secretary of the Diocesan 4 Financial Board. As a young man working with his father who was into multiple construction projects, young Enos had learned building design and account keeping. In fact, after Nuttall became Bishop he designed several of the mission and school buildings himself. The Anglican Church though not a business enterprise needed Nuttall’s business acumen to deliver its spiritual and temporal services. Nuttall, the businessman, succeeded in putting the disestablished Church on a sound financial footing. He persuaded the Anglican Church to adopt the system of “our Wesleyan brethren” to cope with the financial crisis following disestablishment. He raised funds for the Diocese, brought the SPCK, SPG and CMS back on board. Nuttall was also largely responsible for drafting the new constitution and canons of the disestablished Church of England in Jamaica. Nuttall became bishop of Jamaica in 1880 (consecrated at St. Paul’s Cathedral) continued the work of his predecessors, and embarked on some of his own. The dioceses of Jamaica, Barbados, Antigua, British Guiana and Trinidad came together in 1883 as the Province of the West Indies, which later incorporated the dioceses of Bahamas and Belize. Nuttall played a leading role in drafting a Constitution for a Provincial Synod in October 1883 in Jamaica. The first Primate 5 of the Province was Bishop Austin of British Guiana. Nuttall became Primate in 1893 and Archbishop in 1897. The additional burden of work necessitated the appointment of an Assistant Bishop of Jamaica – Bishop Charles F. Douet – who served faithfully under Nuttall until Douet’s resignation in 1904. Bishop Courtenay’s (1856-79) establishment (in 1861) of the Jamaica Home and Foreign Mission Society, which advocated the evangelization of the Jamaican hinterland and urged missions in West Africa (Rio Pongas); and the Miskito kingdom of Central America, was an indication that the concept of the mission frontier had been proposed even before Nuttall became Bishop in 1880. From 1874 the Anglican Church also committed itself to a native ministry. These plans, which were temporarily shelved because of the financial crisis, were revived and implemented by Nuttall except for the Miskito mission. The Miskito kings, some of whom were crowned in Jamaica and who had had strong affiliation to the Anglican Church came under the complete sway of the Moravians. Since, administratively, the Theological College (which was later dubbed St. Peter’s) was at the centre of Nuttall’s missionary enterprise, I now turn to the role of the College that brought several policies together under one roof. 6 Church Theological College The Theological College established (stone laying 1893) with an endowment of £9,000 from Dowager Countess Howard de Walden is a tribute both to Nuttall’s fund-raising capabilities, his English contacts, and his ability to create workable and coordinated systems of Church administration. The Theological College was central to the establishment of a local ministry and the preparation of candidates for the voluntary church and keeping church accounts. It seasoned priests coming out of England and prepared Jamaicans for missionary work both in Jamaica and in West Africa. (Training of a native ministry really began in Jamaica with Rev. Douet’s sessions in Spanish Town since 1874). The native ministry would spearhead the expansion of the Anglican Church, schools and missions. Eventually, as a tertiary institution attached to the University of Durham, it provided continuous education for priests and the evangelical Church Army. Missionaries received additional training at Mico College, also at the centre of the overseas enterprise, and to some extent the Kingston Public Hospital, to provide them with supplementary pharmaceutical and medical skills. Prior to this training took place at Codrington College Barbados. The College also gave this 7 “hands-on” Bishop the opportunity to supervise personally the preparation of missionaries to West Africa. THE MISSION FRONTIER Having examined the institutional arrangements for missionary work, I now turn to a description of the “mission frontier” and Nuttall’s responses to it. The Jamaican mission frontier was physical in the sense that, following Emancipation in 1838, thousands of the ex-enslaved had withdrawn into remote parts of the Jamaican hinterland out of reach of mainstream churches, or other institutions. The frontier was also spiritual and cultural since religious expression in Jamaica was not confined to the mainstream religious bodies.
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