...Liberiaa clergy present:— ' Whereas, when in the course of Divine Providence these Liberian settlements became independent, with respect to civil government,...ecclesiastical independence was necessarily included, so that the different religious denominations of Christians in them were left at full liberty to model...

...only states a fact about our own Church without announcing any general principle. The words arc : ' When, in the course of Divine Providence, these American...ecclesiastical independence was necessarily included.' Surely the necessity must have been the consequence of u principle : — the principle, which I hold...

...instinct prompted the Nicene decree. The same instinct led the American Church to declare, that ". when, in the course of Divine Providence these American...Ecclesiastical independence was necessarily included." Clearly, then, there can be no union between ourselves and the Church of Rome, so long as she maintains...

...only states a fact about our own Church without announcing any general principle. The words are : ' When, in the course of Divine Providence, these American...ecclesiastical independence was necessarily included.' Surely the necessity must have been the consequence of a principle : — the principle, which I hold...

...those words in the Preface to the Prayer Book, which assert that under our political constitution, " the different religious denominations of Christians...their respective Churches, and forms of worship," etc. For, from a Congressional point of view, all Christian bodies, including the Roman and An-glican...

...revised prayer | of 1789 : " Whereas, in the preface to the Book of Common Prayer, it is stated that when in the course of Divine Providence these American...ecclesiastical independence was necessarily included ; and that thereafter the attention of the Church was first dratvn to those alterations in the Liturgy which...

...England. In putting forth its " Book of Common Prayer " in 1789, the convention of that church said, " When, in the course of Divine Providence, these American...ecclesiastical independence was necessarily included;" and hence the convention had set out to model the church and its forms " consistently with the constitution...

...authority in Great Britain hath not since thought it proper to revive it by any new commission. But when, in the course of divine providence, these American States became independent with respect to civrl government, their ecclesiastical independence was necessarily included; and the different religious...

...ecclesiastical independence. Its language is, " When in the course of Divine Providence these American Slates became independent with respect to civil government,...ecclesiastical independence was necessarily included." This being true, it follows that inasmuch as these American States, when they became independent of...

...justified by the principle asserted in the preface to the Book of Common Prayer, which declares : " When these American States became independent with respect...ecclesiastical independence was necessarily included." But it is noticeable that by some in the South this doctrine of the dependence of the Church on the...