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Excerpt from The Centenary of the American Episcopate: An Address Delivered in St. James's Hall, on June 17, 1884, and a Sermon Preached in St. Paul's Cathedral, on June 18, 1884, on the Occasion of the 183rd Anniversary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
The Bishop of Ohio, who was very warmly received, said The fraternal congratulations of his Grace, the president of the venerable Society, to our General Convention at its cen tennial meeting, have afforded the occasion of which I am to take advantage to-day; for our House of Bishops has committed to me the honourable privilege of expressing to the members of the venerable Society that profound gratitude to the Church of England with which our Church reviews the first century of its history. A little one has become a a thousand, and a small one a strong nation. It is only a hundred years; but the Lord has hastened it in His time. We do not forget our debt to the Church of England for its nurture; nor the gratitude due, under the providence of God, to the venerable Society in particular. We have imbedded the fact in the opening sentences of the Preface to our Book of Common Prayer, and to all generations perpe tuate the record, that to the Church Of England the Protestant Episcopal Church in these States is indebted, under God, for her first foundation, and a long continuance of nursing care and protection. And it is quite in accordance with this tradition that in these later days we have met distinguished courtesy and consideration from the authorities of the Church of England in solving problems connected with our joint missionary affairs. In this recognition I count it a privilege to include the Church Missionary Society, atwhose side we labour in Missions both in China and Japan. It has indeed been comparatively easy to adjust the relations of these sister Churches since the Lambeth Conferences. The Lambeth Conferences! They are ever coupled in our remembrance with recollections Of that saint of God, Arch bishop Tait, of blessed memory, once Primate of England, only; but now Primus as well in all hearts in America that beat in unison with his pure and single-minded devotion to the cause of Christ, his grave and patient loving wisdom, and his unbounded fraternity of sympathy with all fellow labourers in the Gospel. His Grace the present Archbishop among his first Official acts completed the policy then out lined; and the venerable Society and the Church Missionary Society co - operating, our Bishops in foreign lands now pursue their work in common; so that, today, I am to express our gratitude to God, not only for favours buried with the dead, but for living benefactions, that keep fresh and fragrant the assurance Of our brotherhood in Christ.
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