Conference Of Bishops Of The Church Of England In Canada And Of The Protestant Episcopal Church In The Us

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Download or read book Conference of Bishops of the Church of England in Canada and of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Conference of Bishops of the Church of England in Canada and of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States: Held at the Pro-Cathedral, Washington, D. C. In October, 1903 The Papers which this volume contains embrace, with a single exception, those which were read at a recent Conference of the Bishops of the Church of England in the Western Hemisphere, and the Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, held at Washington, D. C., in October, 1903. The subjects of which they treat, and the sequence in which they were read, will be indicated in the Order which, in this volume, follows this note. The value of the Papers will be estimated, of course, by such judgment as the reader may bring to them. But whatever that may be, of the value of the occasion there can be no doubt. Not infrequently, for well-nigh a century, had individual Bishops of the Anglican Communion honored the American Church, and especially its General Conventions, with their presence, and almost as often had Bishops from the United States enjoyed the hospitality of their Canadian Brethren. But in either case the visitor was only a guest, and the larger comity of two Sister Communions was, at the best, but very imperfectly recognized. At the Conference in Washington, Bishops of both nationalities (from first to last, nearly one hundred in number) sat as one body, and in absolute equality, and deliberated concerning the gravest interests and largest mission of the Kingdom of God among men. Such an assemblage had, as some at any rate who participated in it believed, a prophetic significance. It recognized the Oneness of Christ's Body, of whatever race or lineage; and it recognized no less what Lamennais long ago pointed out - the pre-eminent competency of the Episcopal Church, as not standing for a part, but for the whole of the primitive deposit of the Apostolic Faith and Order, to be the messenger of Jesus Christ to men in this twentieth century and on the American Continents. The publication of this volume was intrusted, as to a committee appointed by the whole body of bishops, to the undersigned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.