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THE COMPREHENSIVE CHURCH. 125
to the ministry, he will perceive that there is in the
Protestant Episcopal Church a very remarkable scope
and variety of clerical influence and effort provided
for.
It is true that these have never yet been but partially
developed or improved, because the hitherto straitened
circumstances of the Church have not warranted nor indeed called for any new applications of clerical influence. But it is still true that almost all the peculiar
varieties and modes of clerical influence and effort now
in operation among the several denominations in our
country are actually provided for, and in many cases
employed, in the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Thus the itinerant or unsettled missionary clergy of
the Protestant Episcopal Church are identical nearly
with the itinerant clergy of the Methodist Church.
Thus the Missionary and Diocesan Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church, with less powers and in a
definite district, fulfil the same Episcopal or supervisory care of the Churches which the Bishops of the
Methodist Church fulfil, and which the general agents
of the Presbyterian and Congregational missionary districts in the West fulfil. The State or County missionaries of the Protestant Episcopal Church, indeed
the Bishops themselves, are correspondent to the Evangelists of the Presbyterian and Congregational Churches.
The parochial or settled clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church correspond to the same class in all other
Churches. Then, in the office of Deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church there is a provision (which has
never yet been fully improved) for an order corresponding to the local clergy of the Methodist Church; and
| Title | The comprehensive church |
| Creator | Vail, Thomas H. (Thomas Hubbard) |
| Publisher | Appleton |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date | 1879 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000129 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | THE COMPREHENSIVE CHURCH. 125 to the ministry, he will perceive that there is in the Protestant Episcopal Church a very remarkable scope and variety of clerical influence and effort provided for. It is true that these have never yet been but partially developed or improved, because the hitherto straitened circumstances of the Church have not warranted nor indeed called for any new applications of clerical influence. But it is still true that almost all the peculiar varieties and modes of clerical influence and effort now in operation among the several denominations in our country are actually provided for, and in many cases employed, in the Protestant Episcopal Church. Thus the itinerant or unsettled missionary clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church are identical nearly with the itinerant clergy of the Methodist Church. Thus the Missionary and Diocesan Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church, with less powers and in a definite district, fulfil the same Episcopal or supervisory care of the Churches which the Bishops of the Methodist Church fulfil, and which the general agents of the Presbyterian and Congregational missionary districts in the West fulfil. The State or County missionaries of the Protestant Episcopal Church, indeed the Bishops themselves, are correspondent to the Evangelists of the Presbyterian and Congregational Churches. The parochial or settled clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church correspond to the same class in all other Churches. Then, in the office of Deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church there is a provision (which has never yet been fully improved) for an order corresponding to the local clergy of the Methodist Church; and |
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