---
title: 'Sketches of a Country Parish'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Julia McNair Wright'
date: 1872-04-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Death and Dying'
- 'Pastoral Theology'
scriptures:
- 'Psalms 23'
- 'Ecclesiastes 3'
- 'John 11'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/wright-1872-sketches-of-a-country-parish
---

# Sketches of a Country Parish

1872 sketches of parish life: a young pastor grapples with funeral excesses, parish customs, and pastoral burdens—minister shortages and resistance to reform.

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