page_title: Henry C. Lay
section_title: Retirement Years
hierarchical_section_title: Henry C. Lay / Retirement Years
caption_attribution_description: English: Bishop Henry C. Lay memorial
context_page_description: Henry Champlin Lay was a bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
context_section_description: About 1880, Bishop Lay retired  and began writing and publishing extensively, for church and popular audiences. His first book, Letters to a Man Bewildered Among Many Counsellors, had already been published in four editions by the Church Book Society in 1854. The same publisher in 1860 issued two volumes of short sermons and tracts entitled Tracts for Missionary Use. In 1872, W. Wells Gardner in London published Studies in the Church: being letters to an old-fashioned layman. During his final years at Easton, Lay traveled to deliver sermons, lectures and eulogies outside his diocese, including of his friend Atkinson in 1881. Some are readily available through Project Canterbury. Studies in the Church was published in 1881. His last book, The Church in the Nation: God's Pure and Apostolical, God's Authorized Representative, was published by E.P. Dutton Co. in the year of Lay's death.
caption: Lay's memorial
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