The conquest of the continent . e sum-mons came which called him home—a bishopthan whom few have left a deeper impress upontheir age, and a nobler memory of brave deedswell done.* For the Eastern Diocese, too—as New Eng-land, with the exception of Connecticut, was thencalled—at the same time with Hobart, Alex-ander Viets Griswold was advancedIS op nswo ^^ ^^^ episcopate. He rekindled theflame of spiritual life which in many places hadburned almost to ashes. Like Hobart in NewYork he seemed almost compelled to create the * Hobart College, Geneva, the General Theological Seminaryand the New York
The conquest of the continent . e sum-mons came which called him home—a bishopthan whom few have left a deeper impress upontheir age, and a nobler memory of brave deedswell done.* For the Eastern Diocese, too—as New Eng-land, with the exception of Connecticut, was thencalled—at the same time with Hobart, Alex-ander Viets Griswold was advancedIS op nswo ^^ ^^^ episcopate. He rekindled theflame of spiritual life which in many places hadburned almost to ashes. Like Hobart in NewYork he seemed almost compelled to create the * Hobart College, Geneva, the General Theological Seminaryand the New York Bible and Common Prayer Book Societyowe their beginning to Bishop Hobart. He published the firstreligious periodical, edited a Family Bible, produced devo-tional manuals and organized and stimulated Sunday Schoolwork—a comparatively new thing in that day. He was alsomost active in Church defence, originating the phrase whichhas been so frequently used to define the Churchs position,*Evangelic truth and Apostolic KT. REV. ALEXANDER V. GRISWOLD, The Gathering of the Forces 47 Church anew, but his intense consecration andsimple piety, combined with a faithfulnessmost conspicuous, produced their inevitable ef-fect. Everywhere he journeyed, prayed andpreached, and by sheer force of his own realgoodness and loving self-sacrifice reawakenedpersonal religion in the lives of thousandsthroughout the thirty-two years during whichit was granted him to serve in the episcopate. In Virginia, too, conditions were no a single generation the power of the Churchhad been swept away. The grants of the Eng-lish crown were, of course, taken from her, andit was not strange that she became a mark forplunder. Glebes and church buildings weresold for a song, and the proceeds—which wereto be used ^for any public purpose not re-ligious—were sometimes embezzled by thesheriifs officers. Guzzling planters drank fromchalices and passed cheese on Communionpatens. A marble fon
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