. The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . work in Africa, hindeied in Gods providence from the vei-ystart by untoward circumstances, demanding patience and faith, re-ceived at length in Liberia and at Cape Palmas its mission laborers Vide A discourse delivered iu Grace Conuecticut, tlirough the Valley of the Mia-Cliurch, in the city of New York, with reference sissippi River in the year 1829-30; by Wil-to the Mission of the Bishop of the Diocese of liam Richmond, , London, 1830. THE MISSIONARY SPIRIT IN THE CHURCH. 249 from the American Church. The work at Athens prospere
. The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . work in Africa, hindeied in Gods providence from the vei-ystart by untoward circumstances, demanding patience and faith, re-ceived at length in Liberia and at Cape Palmas its mission laborers Vide A discourse delivered iu Grace Conuecticut, tlirough the Valley of the Mia-Cliurch, in the city of New York, with reference sissippi River in the year 1829-30; by Wil-to the Mission of the Bishop of the Diocese of liam Richmond, , London, 1830. THE MISSIONARY SPIRIT IN THE CHURCH. 249 from the American Church. The work at Athens prospered. Thepress at Syra, under the careful management of Dr. Robeitson,worked wonders for the cause of Christ. At Crete a prosperousmission yielded at length only to the hitter fortunes of war. Persiareceived attention, and at a later date, in 1844, William Jones Boonewas consecrated for Amoy, China, and Horatio Southgate for Con-stantinople. It was not till that John Payne was made Bishopof Cape Palmas, Africa. Two years later William Ingraham Kip was. THE RIGHT r,EV. JONES BOONE, , BISHOP TO CHINA. sent out to California, and Thomas Fielding Scott to Oregon andWashington; and in 1859 Arkansas received the earnest and devotedHenry Champlin Lay as its apostle, and the North-west had itsbishop in the person of the indefatigable Joseph Cruikshanks Talbot. Itseems but a short time since to these names, held in deserved honor, theaddition of those of Robert Harper Ciarksou, as Missionary Bishop ofNebraska, and George Maxwell Randall, as Missionary Bishop of Colo-rado, and Channing Moore Williams, as Missionary Bishop of Chinaand Japan, attested the development of a revived spirit of missions in Consecrated in St. Peters Church, Phila-delphia, October 26, 1S41, at the age of thirty- 250 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN EPISCOPAL CHURCH. the Church; and since this day, when the episcopate was extendedover the whole tcrritoiy of the United States, Montana has r
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