The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . he war isclosed, he sees clearly that before the E])iscopal Church c;in become al^owerful element in Aincrictin life; sh(^ has before her, first, a strugglefor existence ; and then another struggle, hardly less difficult, toseparate herself ft-om English influences and .standards, and to throwherself heartily into the interests and hopes of the new nation. Of how those two struggles began in the country at large, whenthe revolutionary war was over and our independence was established. A CEXTUKY OF CHUUCH GKOWTH IS BOSTON. 4)S7 there is
The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . he war isclosed, he sees clearly that before the E])iscopal Church c;in become al^owerful element in Aincrictin life; sh(^ has before her, first, a strugglefor existence ; and then another struggle, hardly less difficult, toseparate herself ft-om English influences and .standards, and to throwherself heartily into the interests and hopes of the new nation. Of how those two struggles began in the country at large, whenthe revolutionary war was over and our independence was established. A CEXTUKY OF CHUUCH GKOWTH IS BOSTON. 4)S7 there is not room here to speak except very hrieily. It was tliesproutin<; of a tree which had been cut down to the very roots. Thecurliest si<j:n of life was a mectinfr at New Brunswick, in \ew Jersey,in llfii, when thirteen clcTirynicn and laymen, from \ew York, NewJersey, and Pennsylvania, cami loircther to see what could he madeof the fragments of the Church of England which were scatteredthrough the now independent colonics. The same; year there was a. KiNu s cn.\,. EKECTED IN inK VKAK 1TJ9 meeting held in Boston, where seven clergymen of Massachusetts andIJhoilc Island consulted on the condition and i)n)s|)ects of theirChmvh. The next year there was a larger meeting held in Iliiiadel-|,hi;i, — what may he called the tir>l Convention of the EpiscopalClnirch in the United States. — when delegates from seven of thetiiirtecn States were assemhled. This was on Sept. 27. IVcS,). Evi-dently the fragments of the Churcii had life in them, and a tendencyto reach toward each other and seek a corporati- existence. Eromthe beginning, too, there evidently was in many parts of the Church!i certain sense of oi)pt)rtunity, a feeling that now was the time some enlargement of the churchs standards which would notprobably occiu- agajn. Under this feeling, when the time for therevision of the liturgy arrived, the Creed was dropped xA^i^^ (? - ^ciii<^ 48H IIISTOK
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