. The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . eand esteem of his townsmen of all sects and parties. To him, nowthat the war was over, the Chuich in Xtw England looked up a-^ to aleading man in her counc lU,and afterwards, by hisa( ti\ eexertions and patient ^\ ail-ing,—for l:)oth were requuedin this delicate and ditficulttask, — the eflbrts of Whitefor the healing of the breac iibetween the Church in Con-necticut and the Chuich inthe other States were ci1)l\furthered, and were broughtat length to a successful mdmost happy issue. Well,then, may Samuel Paikeisname stand first among
. The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . eand esteem of his townsmen of all sects and parties. To him, nowthat the war was over, the Chuich in Xtw England looked up a-^ to aleading man in her counc lU,and afterwards, by hisa( ti\ eexertions and patient ^\ ail-ing,—for l:)oth were requuedin this delicate and ditficulttask, — the eflbrts of Whitefor the healing of the breac iibetween the Church in Con-necticut and the Chuich inthe other States were ci1)l\furthered, and were broughtat length to a successful mdmost happy issue. Well,then, may Samuel Paikeisname stand first among themembers of this preliminarygathering for at first had shrunk from what was then a novelty, anecclesiastical convention of which the representatives of the laityformed a component part. They had, as clergy, met more than ayear ago, and their choice for the episcopate had fallen on the earnestand persevering Seabury, who, though they knew it not as yet, wasnow preparing for his journey northward into Scotland for the imposi-. OLD TRIXITV CHURCH, BOSTON. THE EARLY CONVENTIONS, NORTH AND SOUTH. 27 tion of holy bunds. But still clinging to the hope and trust that hadshone out so bright in thcni when others douljted of the possibility ofthe churchs full and complete reviving, they waited the result of theirapplication to the mother-land. And now, as their last advices fromabroad had hinted at a change of plans, or, rather, at the possibilityof a resort to the alternative of Scotland, suggested when the choiceof Seabury was made, they were the more inclined to await the per-fecting of their Church l)y the presence of a bishop in their councils,than to engage Avithout one in wiiat seemed to them a premature eflbrtfor organization and ecclesiastical reform. Still, after conference withthe Ivcv. Messrs. Abraham Beach, of iSew Jersey, who tirst suggestedthe idea of a general meeting of this nature, and Joshua Bloomer andBenjamin Moore, of New York, who had
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