The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . ut their Names and Seals to these on the one side, or tlie prejudice of former Cus- presents at Aberdeen this fifteenlh day of No- tom on the other. vembcr, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, Art. VI. It is also hereby agreed and re- seven liundred, and eighty-four. KOBEUT KILGOUR, Bhhop y ceneral consent,till the minds of tiie people iiad l)een srradnally prepared for tiiechanijfe. With this view, early the following year, tiicre apj)eared athin duodecimo pamphlet of twenty-four pages, containing TheCommunion-Oflicc, or Order for A
The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . ut their Names and Seals to these on the one side, or tlie prejudice of former Cus- presents at Aberdeen this fifteenlh day of No- tom on the other. vembcr, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, Art. VI. It is also hereby agreed and re- seven liundred, and eighty-four. KOBEUT KILGOUR, Bhhop y ceneral consent,till the minds of tiie people iiad l)een srradnally prepared for tiiechanijfe. With this view, early the following year, tiicre apj)eared athin duodecimo pamphlet of twenty-four pages, containing TheCommunion-Oflicc, or Order for Administration of the Holy Eucharistor Supper of tlu- I^ord, wilh Private Devotions, Recommended to the. BISHOP SEABUKY S HOUSE, NEW LONDON, CONX. Episcopal Congregations in Connecticut, l)y the Right Rev. BishopSeabury. This tract, now one of the rarest of our American ecclesi-astical antiquities, failed to receive general acceptance; hut its directresult, a few years later, was the incorporation of the distinctive featuresof the Scotch otBce into our present American Communion service. The adjournment of the Convention of 1785 gave to Dr. Whiteand his fellow-committeemcn abundant, and, for a time, engrossinglabor. Few of the records of this most important epoch are moreinteresting and instructive than the voluminous correspondence betweenDrs. AAhite and Smith, with an occasional letter from the amiableWharton, as puljlished from tiie original manuscripts in the notes tothe reprint of the early journals to which we have already tracing of each step of the connnittees progress; the genialinterest and zeal of White, and the indefatigable labor of Smith, thediscussion of many
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