The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . Mrs. Harriet Newell 425 theIIepiscopal church. B. MaHTYRS MEMORIAL, OXFORD. U T a very slight sketch ofEpiscopacy itself, and of itshistory in England, is needfulto introduce the reader tothe Protestant EpiscopalChurch in America. Eusebius asserts that Chris-tianity was first introduced in-to South Britain by the Apos-tles, and their immediate dis-ciples ; and it is supposed bysome that the Apostle Paulvisited England ; and that,
The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . Mrs. Harriet Newell 425 theIIepiscopal church. B. MaHTYRS MEMORIAL, OXFORD. U T a very slight sketch ofEpiscopacy itself, and of itshistory in England, is needfulto introduce the reader tothe Protestant EpiscopalChurch in America. Eusebius asserts that Chris-tianity was first introduced in-to South Britain by the Apos-tles, and their immediate dis-ciples ; and it is supposed bysome that the Apostle Paulvisited England ; and that, asmight be expected, his zeal,diligence, and fortitude, wereabundant. It is also said, thatnumbers of persons professedthe Christian faith there aboutthe year 150 ; and, accordingto Usher, there was, in theyear 182, a school of learning,to provide the British churcheswith proper teachers. The Episcopalians claim theexcellent Bede as one of theirnumber. We scarcely knowof a more sublime picture,than that of the death of thevenerable Bede, as describedby one of his pupils. He wasthe ornament of his countryand of the eighth century, andwas employed at the time ofhis death in rendering theGospel of St. John into
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