After graduating, he spent two years in teaching: one as principal of the Academy in Millbury, Mass., and the other in the Episcopal School of North Carolina at Raleigh.
He then spent two years in the General Theological Seminary in New York City, and on July 8, 1838, was ordained Deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church, by Bishop Brownell, at (what is now) Portland, Conn.
He immediately accepted the rectorship of Christ Church, Watertown, Conn, where he was advanced to the Priesthood by Bishop Brownell, September 29, 1839.
Twenty years of such exhaustive labor at last broke down his health, and early in 1867, having disposed of his magazine, he accepted the rectorship of St. Paul's Church, a missionary enterprise in Bridgeport, Conn. With characteristic energy he devoted himself to building up this parish, until it became one of the strongest m the city About 1878 he established The Guardian, a weekly Church newspaper, published in New York, and finding the double labor too much resigned his rectorship at Easter, 1881.
He continued to reside in Bridgeport, devoting his entire attention to editing and publishing The Guardian, until his sudden decease in that city, of paralysis, August 7, 1883, in his 74th year.