. The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . power designed toeffect the introduction of the book to actual use, in order to prevent adiscussion of its merits, together with the other error, the use of itat the close of the convention, and by the Philadelphia clergy sub-sequently, thus helping to confirm the opinion of its being to be in-troduced with a high hand, served to account for much of theopposition to it. There is also, in the action of the churches of NewEngland and that of New Jersey, as well as in the unpul)lished lettersof men like Parker, Bass, Bela Hubbard, Jarvis
. The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . power designed toeffect the introduction of the book to actual use, in order to prevent adiscussion of its merits, together with the other error, the use of itat the close of the convention, and by the Philadelphia clergy sub-sequently, thus helping to confirm the opinion of its being to be in-troduced with a high hand, served to account for much of theopposition to it. There is also, in the action of the churches of NewEngland and that of New Jersey, as well as in the unpul)lished lettersof men like Parker, Bass, Bela Hubbard, Jarvis, Benjamin Moore,Abraham Beach, William Smith the younger, John Buchanan, and 60 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN EPISCOPAL CHURCH. William West,—men representing every section of the Church fromMassachusetts to Virginia, — reason to believe that the unsparing handwith which the liturgic heritage of the Church universal had beenassailed, had much to do with the speedy return, in all quarters, tothe old book, simply changed as the primary Convention of 1784 had. resolved, to accommodate it to the requirements of our national inde-pendence and the constitutions of the respective States. Besides the hurrying through of a review of the liturgy, the Con-vention of 1785 proceeded to address the English archbishops andbishops for the episcopal succession. This was done with no generaldistrust of the Scotch episcopacy, but with the natural preference for thatof England, which had led Seabury to wait more than a year in efforts for CONSECRATION OP FIRST AMERICAN BISHOPS. 61 the same, ere he reluctantly turned his steps toward Aberdeen. But, asWhite and others well knew, now that the problem so long in suspensewas solved, and the British ministry had seen, in the quiet yet honorablereception of Seabury as an unquestioned bishop, the fullest evidencethat the old objections to the introduction of the episcopate in Americahad lost their force, and with the fires of partisan rancor and denomi-nat
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