The conquest of the continent . har-acter as that of a bishop who did not live in apalace and wear a wig! Then, too, the clergyhad for one hundred and fifty years knownnothing but a shadow of episcopal whole question of the constitutional rela-tions of bishops, clergy and laity with one an-other and with the general Church, had to beworked out and adjusted. This was done fairlywell during these first twenty-two years. Thestructural development was going on, and atthe end of the period the general plan of theChurchs law and order was pretty well estab-lished. The Church was findin
The conquest of the continent . har-acter as that of a bishop who did not live in apalace and wear a wig! Then, too, the clergyhad for one hundred and fifty years knownnothing but a shadow of episcopal whole question of the constitutional rela-tions of bishops, clergy and laity with one an-other and with the general Church, had to beworked out and adjusted. This was done fairlywell during these first twenty-two years. Thestructural development was going on, and atthe end of the period the general plan of theChurchs law and order was pretty well estab-lished. The Church was finding herself. She wasrealizing her unity. This sense of unity tookhold and flowered in a truer conception of theepiscopate. The bishop of wigs and carriages,with much of the aristocrat and a little tinge of**my lordship—the prevailing English type ofthat day—could not be successfully reproducedin America. More than ever, having at lastobtained the episcopate, did the Church realizehow essential it was to her unity and success;. RT. REV. JOHN HENRY HOBART, The Gathering of the Forces 43 but more than ever also was she beginning tosee that an adaptation was needed, and that anAmerican type of bishop—one who should bebefore all else a missionary—must be de-veloped. Thus did the Church, during this darkperiod of her history, develop her organizationfor conquest and readjust her ideals of leader-ship. She emerged with a united front and aclearer vision; which was, perhaps, as muchas could be expected under the circumstances. Ill In His good time God raised up three men—and they raised up the Church. Hobart inLeaders Now York, Griswold in New Eng- RaisedUp land, and Moore in Virginia were, under God, the three personalities which ush-ered in for the Church the period of internalgrowth. In 1811 Bishop Moore, the coadjutor of NewYork, was stricken with paralysis. Bishop Pro-Avoost had resigned his work ten years beforeand was devoting himself to the study of botanyand the c
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