, 1879-06-22


States; the Qnakets, or. Friends, in Philade
phia; then follow the Presbytcrians, the Cor
gregationallsts, the Mcthodists, the Baptist.
the untversalists. Dean :Stanley's classt6catiu
Is his own, and in the nature of things vii
hardly beucceptcd By all the individual churche
to which he refers. The Roman Catholic Churc
the Irish: Of Unitarianism lie says: ID. :
| Not srea, in numbers, except in Boston aud IT
nciehborhood, but including within itself almo,
al the cultivated authorship Of America in the be
ginning I'm OF tins century, tne Unitarian Church n
Christianity Of the Western continent.
Dr.. Channins's works arc spoken of rs tor
-"stif and statc1y'' IN etyc to maintain theil
ground " under the altered tastes Of our gencr
ation," but Dean Stanley's estimate Of Chan
nlng's character is very high one. OF Theodore
Parker he says: a.
lie. also, was one Of the few American theolo-
gians known beyond his own country: u1,d. with al
the objections which may be nlaae against his
preston. he must be regarded rs the first pioneer
on the transatlantic Continent OF those larger
views Of critical inquiry and religious philosophy
which M haye So deeply influenced all the churches OF
OF Dr.. Robinson, the author of "Biblical Re-
searches IN PALESTINE the Dean says:
He was the first explorer Of Palestine who saw It
with the eyes Of mind fully proHnted for what he
was to discover. and capable Of seeing wnat he was
to describe Ills works may bcsuper.edcd By later
Investigators and more attractive writer's, but he
will always be regarded as the founder OF modern
sacred geography.
Or the Methodtsts the following Is said:
Itwoud seem as it, three elements cvnduced
to the remarkable position Of the American Meth
odtsts. FIRST, for the more educated classes the
Amer1canism OF Wesley, to which in their pncul-
tivated waY the transatlantic Methodisss still nd
hercd, furnished some kind of escape from the
Stern CAlyinlBm Of the presbyterians and Cunere-
gattonalists Of New England: and it may ha that
Gut Of TIT. tendency spfang that remarkable offset
Eoozen, the Unversalists. Secondly, the Episco-
pal organization of this community, which, at
though differing from, tho more regular forms un
der which 1t is preserved in the Roman, English,
and Lutheran churches. has ye1. justified Wesiey's
adoption OF it BY the Conference which 1t has given
to system otherwise 50 dltnslvc. Thirdly. the
pens OF John Wesley and his brother Charles and
nulti piled by tho fertility Of American fancy have
an attraction for the cplored population .corre-
already described as furnished to them BY the Bap-
fists through the rite OF immersion.
OF the Baptists, Dcan Stanley says that they
surpass all other American churches, except the
Mcthodlsts, including, as they do, not merely
many Of the humber classes Ia the Northern
States, but also u large proportion OF the ne
groes OF the South. he adds:
It Is worth while to contemplate this great Amer
1can Church. which. more than tue correspondent.
III tN15 hLTe8a on lis fcfEpEOQ
Of what is undoubtedly the primitive ApostoIlcal,
md was. till the thirteenth century, tho universal
mode OF baptism in Chriatcndon, which Is still re-
tained throughout the Eastern churches, and which
is still in our own Church as positively cnjoncd in
theory as 1t is un1yersallT neglected In practice
namcly: the Oriental, strange, inconyenient, and
to us almost baroarous practice OF immersion. =
considerable portion Of the. address is de-
voted naturally to IN account OF The English
Church in America. its establishment, with
present condition. The first English Commun-
ion Of the New World was celebrated in Vir-
ginia bv Robert Hunt, on the 21st Of June, 1907.
For long time after in the Northern States
this Church was '*morally regarded rs mere
OF those English Governors who /
resided in their capital cities. There the An
glican clergy we're more or less treated as Uis-
sente1s, whose scattered congregations and their
pastors, when revolution came, adhered to the
account Of the course pursued to maintain here
' the Apostolic successiou,' Of the conservation
3f Bishops Seabury nnd White, and OF the
notifications Of the liturgy. OF the
.!.ture OF the Church hero the Dean does not
,peak dog1natically, but believes thut the
Episcopal Church IN America will have con-
siderable part to play If # only remains faithful
. the liberal principles upon which it first
'tartcd.''
Dean Stanley concludes as follows:
In proportion as the larger cnlture and deeper
.pirit OF the European Continent penctrates the |
American mind, there is hope that the more flex-
bic forms Of the American Nation will open The
ray Of the INVISIBLE Influences Of the invisible
Church OF the future and that in Tint proportion
IL the American churches may rise out Of the pro-
'iuclal colonial condition Of thought which has
must receive os article OF the covenant, both Of
American and European Christianity, that in the |
Sords' OF thor own latest intellectual oracle; |
Emerson:
"Ever the aery Fcntecost, !
Girds with one flame the countless host"
hey will know that,
'*The word INTO the Prophet spoken, l.
WAs writ on tables Jet unoroheu. : |
hey will know thai
''Onc accent OF the Holy Ghost l.
.chc needless world hath never lost"