. The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . merica ? It madehim acquainted with that humbled and suffering, yet pure and per-fectly organized, branch of the Church which was almost altogether 442 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN EPISCOPAL CHURCH. <£ ignored and forgotten in the southern part of Britain, hut which wasto do a deed that would make her history famous forever. When,on his first Sunday in the Scotch capital, he asked to be directed toan Episcopal Church, and his host led him along by-ways to the secret place ofthe worship ofthe proscribedchurchmen, helearned a les-s o n w
. The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . merica ? It madehim acquainted with that humbled and suffering, yet pure and per-fectly organized, branch of the Church which was almost altogether 442 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN EPISCOPAL CHURCH. <£ ignored and forgotten in the southern part of Britain, hut which wasto do a deed that would make her history famous forever. When,on his first Sunday in the Scotch capital, he asked to be directed toan Episcopal Church, and his host led him along by-ways to the secret place ofthe worship ofthe proscribedchurchmen, helearned a les-s o n w h i c hstood him ingood steadwhen he foundthat the richand prosper-ous Church andrealm of Eng-land would notgive to theStates ofAmerica, afterthe y h a dachieved theirindependence,^fr^&fZ^isf ****** / / / / t*b*Mi***- the episcopate i£H^z^£^££T whichBhehad f«4L[ o^Tt^z-f&n^^, Soon afterbirthday hevenerable so-to them by aNew York asblemishedligion, andBishop Sher-held to includeperform thechapel of hispresence, thatthe diaconate. withheld fromthem all thetime that shehad them un- der her power as colonies,he had passed his twenty-fourthpresented himself before theciety, having been commendedtestimonial from the clergy ofa youth of good genius, un-morals, sound principles in re-good proficiency in , whose See of London wasthe colonies, was too infirm toordination ; but it was in thepalace at Fulham, and in hisMr. Seabury was ordained toon St. Thomass Day, 1753, by Dr. John Thomas, Bishop of Lincoln. Two days later, on Sunday,December 23d, in the same place, Dr. Richard Osbaldistone, Bishopof Carlisle, advanced him to the priesthood. On both occasions thereknelt by his side to receive holy orders a man whose life was to touchhis in strange ways, — William Smith, a native of Scotland, afterwards THE SEABURYS provosl of the College and Academy of Philadelphia and president ofthe lower house of the General Convention. At the reqnesl of the inhabitants of the t
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