. The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . ped at once the soundmaxims which the framers of our civil government embodied in theConstitution of the United States, and with a foresight which saw,that for a free people, with free institutions, the Church, as an oigan-ism, must conform so far as possible to the liberal views of the body THE FIRST BISHOr OF PENNS^ L\ \M \ 167 politio, he, with hi-few companions, in bis study in Walnut streetabove Third, dre^ up thai instrument which is the Churchs MagnaCharts. And what i- the result? That document, brief as it is, hasbeen everywhe
. The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . ped at once the soundmaxims which the framers of our civil government embodied in theConstitution of the United States, and with a foresight which saw,that for a free people, with free institutions, the Church, as an oigan-ism, must conform so far as possible to the liberal views of the body THE FIRST BISHOr OF PENNS^ L\ \M \ 167 politio, he, with hi-few companions, in bis study in Walnut streetabove Third, dre^ up thai instrument which is the Churchs MagnaCharts. And what i- the result? That document, brief as it is, hasbeen everywhere hailed as one of the wisest ever penned by man forthe purposes for which it was made. Not only has it worn wellin the working machinery of our Church, for a hundred years;not only has it been reproduced in its general principles in the consti-tutions of fifty organized dioceses; not only has it kept us togetheramidst all the strain and severances of civil war; but it has been copiedin it- essential features in the constitution of the Church of Ireland,. BISHOP WHITE S STUDY. when that ancient church ceased to be established bylaw, and becameon the 1-t day of January, 1871, self-governing and free. The-,, same ideas have largely influenced synodal action in theScotch Church. These same ideas are at work in the Church ofEngland. These Bame principles have been incorporated, as far as cir-cumstances would permit, into the colonial church organizations ; and,because they are principles which accord with Gods word, becausethey agree with the usage of the primitive churches, because they arein harmony with free institution-, therefore they will everywhere pre-vail. Thus the work of William White, planned so wisely a centuryago, is honored and copied by the churchmen and statesmen of thepresent age, and will perpetuate itself through all coming time. The agenev of Dr. White, in securing the Anglican successionof the episcopate, and his subsequent efforts to preserve, in its canon-i
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