The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . rayer and common praise have sounded on theears of that little company of worshippers. Those words remain asour heritage, and we can call up the scene under the tall cross, thesymbol of our salvation and a proof of English occu[)ancy for Christs > A Ucliiliiin nf n Vovajic to Sft^,iiil:ilinr, now (ir^t minted from the orijiinal MS., in theI-ttinl)Ctli Libriiiv. I-ililcil with Prefarc, Notes, anJ Appendices, liy the Rev. IJ. F. DeCosta. 8*.Camhriilge, ISSO! Pp. FORT ST. GEORGE AND THE CHURCH SETTLERS. 33 Church as well as for a C
The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . rayer and common praise have sounded on theears of that little company of worshippers. Those words remain asour heritage, and we can call up the scene under the tall cross, thesymbol of our salvation and a proof of English occu[)ancy for Christs > A Ucliiliiin nf n Vovajic to Sft^,iiil:ilinr, now (ir^t minted from the orijiinal MS., in theI-ttinl)Ctli Libriiiv. I-ililcil with Prefarc, Notes, anJ Appendices, liy the Rev. IJ. F. DeCosta. 8*.Camhriilge, ISSO! Pp. FORT ST. GEORGE AND THE CHURCH SETTLERS. 33 Church as well as for a Christian State, and recite the verba ipsis-»ima, then for the first time echoing on tiic still air of our northernshores. Among tiie Psalms of the da^ was the Z)e«s noi^ter r?fn(jium,and its words of glad assurance must have had a meaning unknownbefore : God is our hope and strength, a very present help in Avill we not fear, though the earth be moved, and though thehills be carried into the midst of the sea. Though the waters thereof. ANCIENT PEMAQtriD. rage and swell, and though the mountains shake at the tempest of thesame. ... Be still, then, and know that I am God: 1 will beexalted among the heathen, and I will be exalted on the earth. TheLord of Hosts is with us, the God of Jacob is our refuge. Whatmore titting words could bo foiuid than those of the second morninglesson, for these worshippers in Gods free temples ? — Iiowl)citthe Most High dwelleth not in temples made witii hands; as saith theProphet, Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: whathouse will ye build me? saith the Lord; or what is the place of my 34 HISTORY OF THE AJIERICAN EPISCOPAL CHURCH. rest? Ilath not my hand made all these things? It was hallowedround where these few settlers for the lu-st time raised the note ofpraise or voice of supplication to heaven, and we may well rejoicethat the words then used were those of our own common prayer, withthe English Bihlc, which was b
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