Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-12-06

I naturally followed that the ministers OF
! that church, in America as well as Eng.
/ land, thought, / suppose most conscien-
tiously, dat they must support the GOV
I eminent as well as the Church Of Eng
I land; and this conviction brought them.
| in the time Of the revolution.
into great trouble. Even DR.. Mans
Geld met with trouble on this
] account, bat IL never broke his
connection with the parish Of Derby, As
New England was ia the dsysofhisy youth
almost wholly Congregational, with the
beliefs and ideas OF the old Puritans. his
/ convention TO Episcopaey seemed to the
FAMILY most extraordinary, and was re-
garded by them as q sort of moral trea-
son. The tradition is that while in
ale college, he was converted to Epis-
1 copacy by reading Rockers CiUjl and
becgestGSttcH Po{ty, a work which is
now classical, and contained some Of
the finest passages In the English lam
guage. His idea of Law is quoted by
Blackstone, and lives In the memory Of
all lawyers. / have read much Of Hook
er's P0liy, with admiration Of its pure
and majestic English; bat / must say,
with no ecclesiastical effect upon my
mind. Perhaps Il would have convert
ed me if 1 had not thought that
Paul was greater than Hooker.
At any rate, it is said that the young
student was indOctrina.ed with
the idea OF Hooker, and was
convinced of the moral necessity OF
joining the Church of England At
that time there was no Protestant Epis-
cOpal bishop in AmeTicR-Seabury, the
first bishop, being ordained long after.
idea of the apostolic succession is by no
means new in these days, the early Epis-
copal clergy OF Connecticut doubted I
whether ordination by q mere Presbyter /
was sufficient. Holding this idea, Mr.. 4
Mansfield went to Scotland to be or I
dained, and was appointed missionary /
TO Connecticut 10y tine London society /
for the propagation OF the gospel This /
society did much real good, however /
much its missionaries were endowed .
with the exclusive ideas of the church of 1
England. ! have its report for 1850, 4
showing that nearly all the Epis-
cOpal clergy Of New England were
then missionaries OF that society.
Indeed, il is certain that il the
society had not maintained their clergy
OF that day, not half the Episcopal
churches now in New England would
exist. COnaecticut has now, IN round
numbers, $50 Episcopal churches. The
same proportion would give Ohio $50 OF
such churches, while in fact it has but
100. DR.. MansfielI lived not only tosee
his church grow up (which never grew
so fast afterwaTd), but to survive those
fierce controversies both of church and
State which brought on the AmeTi-
can Revolution and agitated all Europe
1,eN II IL 1,
tuIy. Just imagine the pastor who set
tied in 1749 on the banks of the Houss-
tonic, lived to 1921, who saw the wars OF
Frederick the Great, the partition Of Pc
land, the American Revolution, the
whole career of Napoleon Bonaparte,
the invention and success of the steam
boat, from the day when Ramsey
launched il on the Potomac, TO that |
when il bore the commerce of the Hud-
son, the Ohio and Mississippi, who saw
his own church when il was without 8
bishop, to the day when its bishops and
churches grew and flOurished; from the
day when his infant country was lite
rally Ike the child cast into the wilder
ness, to the day when ii came to the
bold, strong, stRlwRrt manhood Of ma
tons. Imagine such life as that, and
and you will bring up the pictured Wis
ions Of history IN its greatest, high
sst, most wonderful period. But,
n mat long life, DR.. Mansfield was IN !
conscious OF any part of the world, ex- ,
,ept that which made him q minister OF
jOd and minister to humanity. The ]
'ough waves Of the revolution troubled !
lin, hut never shook his faith OF di-
ninished the love and veneratiOu with ,
which be was regarded. And now
The actions OF he good aud just
SileL sweet, and ripeu IN the silent dust.
r. ID. N. c
FIsuKILL-O,s-THE HUDsoN, Sov. o, 1874. !
The psstOrate which f d. 81. regards as Q
pOcrJ phal that Of Rev. Lzban AinsWOrth, I i
Z JaHrey, New Hampshire-wss not al All 80. n
covered full seventy-nve years as $50. =
nd was preceded by several months OF Q
reaching on trial, the entire service being /
iyeE to the same church.-Ed. 6d-eits. +