This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ... 112 CHAPTER VIII. The Civil War--Anxieties concerning Church Unity--They are resolved--The Pan-Anglican Synod--The Prayer Book--Subsidence of Party Spirit--A Bishop's Pastoral Analysed--Canons of the Church--Organisation--Conclusion. The great Civil War in the States, which began in 1861 and closed in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ... 112 CHAPTER VIII. The Civil War--Anxieties concerning Church Unity--They are resolved--The Pan-Anglican Synod--The Prayer Book--Subsidence of Party Spirit--A Bishop's Pastoral Analysed--Canons of the Church--Organisation--Conclusion. The great Civil War in the States, which began in 1861 and closed in the spring of 1865, caused grave fears that a permanent separation would result between the Church in the Northern and Southern States. Happily the fears were not realised. Before that terrible episode in American history not a ripple had been produced in the deliberations of the Church by any political agitation. "When, as the result of the war, the dioceses of the South could no longer meet in council with those of the North, the former, not THE CIVIL WAR OF 1861. 113 knowing what the result of the war would be, nor how long it would last, deemed it necessary to organise an independent Council, but did so in the following thoughtful terms: ' We are forced by the Providence of God to separate ourselves from the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States--a Church with whose doctrine, discipline, and worship, we are in entire harmony, and with whose action up to the time of separation we were abundantly satisfied.' During these years of anguish it was a consolation to both portions of the American Church that she had not in the least degree been the cause of the strife. And in consequence, as soon as the war ceased, a correspondence was opened between the Bishops of the North and the South, of the most fraternal character. The names of the Southern Bishops had never been dropped from the roll of the House of Bishops in the United States. Their seats had always been I ready for them when they returned to occupy them. In the autumn of...
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