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APPENDIX A. 263
applications had produced much contention in pamphlets and in
newspapers. What would have been the event, in this respect,
had the Episcopal clergy succeeded in their desires, is a problem
which it will be forever impossible to solve.
If such was the difficulty of being supplied with a ministry
during the acknowledged supremacy of the British crown, much
greater, as may be supposed, was the same difficulty during the
struggle which ended in the elevating of the colonies to the rank
of independent states. During that term there was no resource
for the supply of vacancies, which were continually multiplying,
not only from death but by the retreat of very many of the Episcopal clergy to the mother country, and to the colonies still
dependent on her. To add to the evil, many able and worthy
_ ministers, cherishing their allegiance to the king of Great Britain, and entertaining conscientious scruples against the use of the
liturgy, under the restriction of omitting the appointed prayers
for him, ceased to officiate. Owing to these circumstances, the
doors of the far greater number of the Episcopal churches were
closed for several years. In the State in which this work is
edited (Pennsylvania), there was a part of that time in which
there was, through the whole extent, but one resident minister
of the Church in question, he (Bishop White) who records the
fact.
The first step toward the forming of a collective body of the
Episcopal Church in the United States was taken at a meeting
for another purpose of a few clergymen of New York, New
Jersey, and Pennsylvania, at Brunswick, in New Jersey, on the
13th and 14th of May, 1784. These clergymen, in consequence
of prior correspondence, had met for the purpose of consulting
in what way to renew a society that had existed under charters
of incorporation from the Governors of the said three States, for
the Support of Widows and Children of Deceased Clergymen.
Here it was determined to procure a larger meeting on the 5th
of the ensuing October, in New York, not only for the purpose
of reviving the said charitable institution, but to confer and agree
on some general principles of an union of the Episcopal Church
throughout the States.
| 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 | 00000267 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | APPENDIX A. 263 applications had produced much contention in pamphlets and in newspapers. What would have been the event, in this respect, had the Episcopal clergy succeeded in their desires, is a problem which it will be forever impossible to solve. If such was the difficulty of being supplied with a ministry during the acknowledged supremacy of the British crown, much greater, as may be supposed, was the same difficulty during the struggle which ended in the elevating of the colonies to the rank of independent states. During that term there was no resource for the supply of vacancies, which were continually multiplying, not only from death but by the retreat of very many of the Episcopal clergy to the mother country, and to the colonies still dependent on her. To add to the evil, many able and worthy _ ministers, cherishing their allegiance to the king of Great Britain, and entertaining conscientious scruples against the use of the liturgy, under the restriction of omitting the appointed prayers for him, ceased to officiate. Owing to these circumstances, the doors of the far greater number of the Episcopal churches were closed for several years. In the State in which this work is edited (Pennsylvania), there was a part of that time in which there was, through the whole extent, but one resident minister of the Church in question, he (Bishop White) who records the fact. The first step toward the forming of a collective body of the Episcopal Church in the United States was taken at a meeting for another purpose of a few clergymen of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, at Brunswick, in New Jersey, on the 13th and 14th of May, 1784. These clergymen, in consequence of prior correspondence, had met for the purpose of consulting in what way to renew a society that had existed under charters of incorporation from the Governors of the said three States, for the Support of Widows and Children of Deceased Clergymen. Here it was determined to procure a larger meeting on the 5th of the ensuing October, in New York, not only for the purpose of reviving the said charitable institution, but to confer and agree on some general principles of an union of the Episcopal Church throughout the States. |
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