New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-20

an English colony or to interfere with the rellglsh
of other people Nobody surely imagipes that they
believed in religious eq iality as Nat'
They practised it toward others because
they hoped thus to get 1t for them-
selyes-a hope in which, as we have seen. they
were disappointed The principle OF toleratloh Is
the growth of later times.
Bishop Perry's studies Of the early church IN
New-England have resulted in some picturesque
personal sketches and among the historical chai
acters to whom he devetes special attention. Is
Thomas Morton of Mount Woliston, whose May
pole on Mare Mount makes striking hgure In
the chronicles of Massachusetts, Bay. bishop
Perry finds little evidenceiu support ofthe SCANDAL
GUS charges brought against this interesting ao-
venturer by his Puritan opponents, and is disposed
to regard him as sufferer moro for the strlcthess
of his adherence to the church than for the alleged
looseness of his Iife Governor Andres also re-
! ceives more favor at the Bishops hands than
most American historians have been inclined 10
give him Separate chapters are appropriated 10
the church history of all the principal colonies, 10
missionary and educational enterprises. to famous
controversies, and to the American laoors OF "cs
lev and Whitefeld. The l0ng-continued EFFORTS vi
the colonial churchmen to obtain the conservation
of bishops for America and the violent opposition
of The Presb yterans and Cengregatonalists, winch
prevented that project long as the colonies re-
manned united with Great Britain, are told at con-
siderable length. Archbishop Laud had scheme or
sending bishop to New-England as early as 1888,
and Dr. Perry believes that his plan, If carried
into eject, might have changed not
only the ecclesiastical, but also the
civil history of continent" Perhaps
this suggestive sentence ought to he taken IN con-
nection with the chapter on THE Position OF the
Clergy at the Opening of the War for 1ndepeu-
dence" in which the reasons why so large n pro-
portion of them adhered to the Crown are frankly
considered. At the close of the colonial period the
entire number of clersymen of the establishment,
in what are now the United States. did not much
exceed two hundred and fifty The church can
hardly be said to have had an organization, and III
Virginia where it had been settled longest, 1t was
in perous condition of Generalization.
The main body of the text is supplemented by
copious illustrative notes and discussions OF
sources of information, in the course of which
various controvertcd questions are examined
with aminuteness not practicable in connection
with the narrative. Important monographs
are moreover furnished by various hands The
Hon. Robert c. Winthrop considers The Relations
of the Founders of the Massachusetts, Colony to the
Church of England the Rev. b. F. DE Costa
writes of The Early Discoveries and Settlements
on the Coast of New-England under Church
Auspices" ;Dr. Colts paper on /" Purtanism in New
England AVID the Episcopal Church has been men,
toned the Rev. Moses Colt Tyler contributes full
and interesting account of"Dean Berkeey's Sojourn
in America the Rev. John Fulton, D. D.. writes
of the strange episode of The Non-Juring Bishops
In America y; the Rev. DR.. Beardsley of New
Haven, treats of /" Yale College and the Church /;
and finally there are from many hands. sketches
of Historic Churches and of the Church Charities of
the eighteenth century. The whole volume is CO.
piously and finely illustrated with portraits, auto
graphs views of places aud buildings, facsimiles,
maps. etc, and the generous page is printed with
the luxurious elegance betting so serlo1s and valu
able an addition to the library of American history.