. Reminiscences of bishops and archbishops. of things aSidqjopa ; and that,while claiming large freedoms for conscience,for the individual disciple, only exchangedone bondage for another. It was this that went a long way to explainthe erowth of the Church in Connecticut; andwhich accounted for the evolution of a type ofChurchmanship, there, which it must be owned,as it awakened, elsewhere, a certain envy, de-veloped in Connecticut Churchmen a decidedcomplacency. To be known as a ConnecticutChurchman was to be ticketed as a personwho held reverent views of authority, conserva-tive ideas of wors
. Reminiscences of bishops and archbishops. of things aSidqjopa ; and that,while claiming large freedoms for conscience,for the individual disciple, only exchangedone bondage for another. It was this that went a long way to explainthe erowth of the Church in Connecticut; andwhich accounted for the evolution of a type ofChurchmanship, there, which it must be owned,as it awakened, elsewhere, a certain envy, de-veloped in Connecticut Churchmen a decidedcomplacency. To be known as a ConnecticutChurchman was to be ticketed as a personwho held reverent views of authority, conserva-tive ideas of worship, and, pre-eminently,orthodox opinions about dogma. The lateBishop of Connecticut once told me a story ofhis venerable predecessor, and the late Bishopof Rhode Island, which curiously illustratesthis. At the time that Bishop Brownell wasBishop of Connecticut, Bishop Williams washis Assistant, and Bishop Clark — then the The Right Reverend Doctor John WilHams,Bishop of Connecticut. From a photograph by Hennigar Bros., Middletown, Bisbop TraiUlfams 27 Rev. Dr. Thomas M. Clark — was the rectorof a church in Hartford, in which city allthree happened, one Sunday morning, to morning service, Bishop Brownell andBishop Williams chanced to meet. BishopBrownell, it should be said, was born in Massa-chusetts, and had been reared under influenceswhich certainly had not dislodged earlier im-pressions; for, though he graduated at UnionCollege (in 1804), ^^ had been tutor, lecturer,and professor there during the presidency ofEliphalet Nott, he had not learned, any morethan had his great preceptor, to disesteem NewEngland ideas of orthodoxy. In his own presi-dency, as first in that office at Washington (nowTrinity) College, and, later, in his episcopate,when he was Bishop of Connecticut, BishopBrownell was the incarnation of traditionalorthodoxy ; and unfamiliar views of truth had,to him, a very menacing and heterodox the occasion to which I refer, he camein upo
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