The Beginnings of Music in the Boston Public Schools: Decisions of the Boston School Committee in 1837 and 1845 in Light of Religious and Moral Concerns of the Time Page: 44
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The commitment of the Masons is seen by their response to
the Unitarian-Universalist movements, which confronted the
older New England theology in the early decades of the 19th
century. As the new theology reached Medfield, the parish
congregation of the Johnson Mason family (Lowell's father)
became predominately Unitarian. Therefore, several of the
members, including the Masons, split away to become a second
congregation which was decidedly orthodox, or trinitarian,
in theology.117 By this time, Lowell had left Medfield.
But a similar commitment is seen in his own "life-long
evangelicalism, his preference for simple, straight-forward
preaching," and "for non-liturgical services."110 Lowell
recorded his conversion experience at Savannah, Georgia, in
his diary entry of October 20, 1814:
I have been looking over this book and reflecting upon
my journey from Mass. to Georgia. I give up myself to
God, resting my soul on the merit of Jesus for
Salvation. 0 receive me my blessed Saviour for in this
is my hope, my only hope.119
One of the many roles which Mason took upon himself
while in Savannah, was that as superintendent of a large
non-sectarian Sunday school under the auspices of the
Savannah Sunday School Union Society, formed in November,
11<7Pemberton, 19, with reference to an explanatory
letter from Henry Lowell Mason to Mrs. Hattie Woodruff
Hillyer, Sept. 2, 1909.
11®Pemberton, 44-45.
11®Pemberton, 45, quoting Henry Lowell Mason,
manuscript, 90.
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Miller, David Michael, 1951-. The Beginnings of Music in the Boston Public Schools: Decisions of the Boston School Committee in 1837 and 1845 in Light of Religious and Moral Concerns of the Time, dissertation, August 1989; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331189/m1/50/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .