HIvSTORICAL MAGAZINE of the Protestant Episcopal Church
Vol. XXIX MARCH, 1960 No. 1
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Page EDITORIALS 5 Church History Today. . . . Congratulations to the Pres byterians! . . . American Visitors to England! Please Take Note ! . . . The Usefulness of HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
THE CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY AND THE REVIVAL OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN NEW JERSEY 11 By Walter H. Stowe
DR. SHOEMAKER'S OBJECTIVE STUDY: THE ORIGIN AND MEANING OF THE NAME "PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL" 48 A Review by E. H. Eckel
PROFILE OF FRANK GAVIN (1890-1938) : PRIEST AND SCHOLAR 51 By Francis J. Bloodgood m ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S CHURCH, HEMPSTEAD, TEXAS 56 By Frank MacD. Spindler BOOK REVIEWS (Pages 91 to 99)
I. AMERICAN CHURCH HISTORY A Short History of the Diocese of Pennsylvania, 1784-1959 (by J. Wesley Twelves) NELSON R. BURR God Giveth the Increase; The History of the Episcopal Church in North Dakota (by Robert P. Wilkins and Wynona H. Wilkins) E. H. ECKEL Straight Tongue—The Story of Henry Benjamin Whipple, First Episcopal Bishop of Minnesota (by Phillips Endecott Osgood) E. H. ECKEL II. ENGLISH AND GENERAL CHURCH HISTORY The Authority of Scripture: A Study of the Reformation and Post-Reformation Understanding of the Bible (by J. K. S. Reid) E. H. ECKEL The Formation of Christian Dogma: An Historical Study of Its Problem (by Martin Werner) E. H. ECKEL Hugh Compton Warner: The Story of a Vocation (by Nancy Le Pastrier Warner) E. H. ECKEL
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Page EDITORIALS 103 Bishop Gray honored by the University of the South . . . When Were Eucharistie Vestments First Used in the Amer ican Episcopal Church?
IN MEMORIAM: DuBOSE MURPHY, Priest and Doctor ... 104
MEMOIRS OF FRANK J. KLINGBERG 106
THE CRITICAL PERIOD OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN NEW JERSEY 139 By Nelson R. Burr •
BISHOP NICHOLS OF CALIFORNIA: A DISPUTED ELECTION AND A DELAYED TELEGRAM 145 By Frederick G. Böhme •
ALONG AN ECUMENICAL WAY : A RELIGIOUS AUTO BIOGRAPHY 153 By Kendig Brubaker Cully •
CURRENT BOOKS IN CHURCH HISTORY 160 By Powel M. Dawley BOOK REVIEWS (Pages 162-180) I. AMERICAN, ANGLICAN, AND GENERAL CHURCH HISTORY
History of the Diocese of Massachusetts, 1810-1872 (by Joseph Breed Berry) GEORGE E. DEMILLE American Catholics: A Protestant-Jewish View (by Stringfellow Barr) RICHARD G. SALOMON Missionaries, Chinese, and Diplomats: The American Protestant Missionary Move ment in China, 1890-1952 (by Paul A. Varg) c. RANKIN BARNES The Anglican Communion: Past and Future (by Gerald Ellison) C. RANKIN BARNES A History of the Christian Church (by Williston Walker; revised by C. C. Rich ardson, Wilhelm Pauck, R. T. Handy) RICHARD G. SALOMON Classics of Protestantism (ed. by Vergilius Ferm) RICHARD G. SALOMON II. BIBLICAL HISTORY
The History of Israel (by Martin Noth) ROBERT C. DENT AN Forerunners of Jesus (by Leroy Waterman) ROBERT C. DENTAN Ancient Judaism and the New Testament (by Frederick C. Grant) ROBERT C. DENTAN The Historical Background of the Dead Sea Scrolls (by Cecil Roth) ROBERT C. DENTAN The Prophets of Israel (by C. Ross Milley) ROBERT C. DENTAN Teaching the Old Testament (by O. J. Lace) ROBERT C. DENTAN Moses and Egypt (by Henry S. Noerdlinger) ROBERT C. DENTAN The Wisdom of the Torah (ed. by Dagobert D. Runes) ROBERT C. DENTAN What Everyone Should Know About Judaism (by Morton M. Applebaum) ROBERT C DENTAN
III. THEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY The Reality of the Church (by Claude Welch) w. NORMAN PITTENGES Answers to Laymen's Questions (by James P. DeWolfe) GEORGE E. DEMILLE Is Death the End? (by Carroll E. Simcox) w. NORMAN PITTENGER God in Us (by Miles Lowell Yates) FRANCIS J. BLOODGOOD Christian Proficiency (by Martin Thornton) FRANCIS J. BLOODGOOD The Ladder of Temptations (by Harold Blair) FRANCIS J. BLOODGOOD Selected Writings of St. Peter Damian FRANCIS J. BLOODGOOD The Church and Secular Education (by Lewis B. Whittemore) KENDIG BRUBAKER CULLY Religion and the Schools (by R. Gordis, W. Gorman, F. E. Johnson, and R. Lekachman) KENDIG BRUBAKER CULLY Action Patterns in School Desegregation: A Guidebook (by Herbert Wey and and John Corey) KENDIG BRUBAKER CULLY New Patterns for Christian Action (by Samuel J. Wylie) KENDIG BRUBAKER CULLY The Church Is There (by Leslie E. Cooke) KENDIG BRUBAKER CULLY We Obey God (Course 3, Episcopal Fellowship Series) Our Christian Heritage (Course H-L, Episcopal Church Fellowship Series, by Powel Mills Dawley and Dora P. Chaplin) KENDIG BRUBAKER CULLY Publicity Goes to Church (by William E. Leidt) KENDIG BRUBAKER CULLY Religious Themes in Flower Arrangement (by Ruth E. Mullins) MARJORIE B. NICHOLAS HISTORICAL MAGAZINE of the Protestant Episcopal Church f Vol. XXIX SEPTEMBER, 1960 No. 3 CONTENTS
Page IN MEMORIAM: EDWARD LAMBE PARSONS, Bishop and Doctor 182
PROFILE OF PAUL MATTHEWS (1866-1954), FIFTH BISHOP OF NEW JERSEY, 1915-1937 185 By Walter H. St owe
WILLIAM AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG AND THE FOUNDING OF ST. PAUL'S COLLEGE 192 By John Frederick Woolvcrton •
HENRY CASWELL AND THE BACKWOODS CHURCH 219 By William K. Hubbell •
THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY MISSION TO THE IROQUOIS 240 By H. Ward Jackson
THE CHURCH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: Annual Reports for the Year 1959 257 (See Special Title Page, below) HISTORICAL MAGAZINE
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Page EDITORIALS 280 The Philippine Independent Church and St. Andrew's The ological Seminary ... St. James' Church, Lancaster, Pennsyl vania . . . "Brydon Hall" of the Church of St. James the Less, Ashland, Virginia ... It May Seem Incredible, But It Is True !.. . Do Our Subscribers Read Their Mail ? . . . Associate Editor Klingberg Honored . . . Lessons Drawn from History Are a Necessity to the Perpetuation of National Existence^
THE NASHOTAH LITURGY 287 With Introduction by Edward S. White
CONCERNING THE FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF THE CHURCH, 1066-1960 302 By G. Mac Laren Brydon m THE BEGINNINGS OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH 315 By Royden Keith Yerkes
ALEXANDER WHITAKER (1585-1617), "THE APOSTLE OF VIRGINIA" 325 By William H. Littleton BOOK REVIEWS (Pages 349 to 380)
I. AMERICAN CHURCH HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
Seventeenth-Century America: Essays in Colonial History (ed. by James Morton Smith) NELSON R. BURR Ordeal of Faith: The Crisis of Church-Going America, 1865-1900 (by Francis P. Weisenburger) RICHARD G. SALOMON Viewpoints: Some Aspects of Anglican Thinking (ed. by John B. Coburn and W. Norman Pittenger) E. H. ECKEL
II. ENGLISH AND GENERAL CHURCH HISTORY
An Era of Anglican Theology: From Gore to Temple [The Hale Memorial Lectures of Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, 1959] (by Arthur Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of York) FRANCIS C. LIGHTBOURN The Man of Ten Talents (by J. Bromley) E. H. ECKEL The Blind Seer: George Matheson (by John Crew Tyler) E. H. ECKEL A History of the S. P. C. K. (by W. K. Lowther Clarke) E. H. ECKEL The Mass and the English Reformers (by C. W. Dugmore) E. H. ECKEL The South African Liturgy: The Story of the Revision of the Rite and Its Con secration Prayer (by Peter Hinchliff) B. REX DAVIS The Use of Lights in Christian Worship (by D. R. Dendy) MASSEY H. SHEPHERD, JR. Christendom (by Einar Molland) E. H. ECKEL The Recovery of Unity: A Theological Approach (by E. L. Mascall) E. H. ECKEL The Quest for Unity (by Matthew Spinka) E. H. ECKEL Adam of Dryburgh (by James Bulloch) The Life of Christina of Markyate, a Twelfth Century Recluse (ed. and trans, by C. H. Talbot) E. R. HARDY Crétien, Troy es, and the Grail (by Urban T. Holmes, Jr., and Sister Amelia Klenke, O.P.) E. R. HARDY
III. THEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY
Christian Community (by J. V. Langmead Casserley) E. H. ECKEL Answer Me This (by C. B. Moss) HENRY W. PRIOR How and What the Church Teaches (by William Sydnor) HENRY W. PRIOR Creative Giving (by Hiley H. Ward) HENRY W. PRIOR The Religion of the Occident (by Martin A. Larson) E. H. ECKEL The Historic Reality of Christian Culture (by Christopher Dawson) JOHN S. MARSHALL Symbolism in the Bible and the Church (by Gilbert Cope) ... JOHN S. MARSHALL Religion in Plato and Cicero (by John E. Rexine) JOHN S. MARSHALL /I World Without Jews (by Karl Marx) JOHN S. MARSHALL Magic and Religion (by George B. Vetter) JOHN S. MARSHALL Mysticism and the Modern Mind (ed. by A. P. Stiernotte) ... JOHN S. MARSHALL Thunder on the Left (by Oscar W. Miller) JOHN S. MARSHALL •
Index to Volume XXIX (I960) HISTORICAL MAGAZINE of the Protestant Episcopal Church f Vol. XXX MARCH, 1961 No. 1 CONTENTS
Page EDITORIALS 4 Thirtieth Year- Thirtieth Volume! . . . In Memoriam: R. Bland Mitchell (1887-1961), Bishop and Doctor . . . Bishop Scaife Honored by Armenian Churches . . . Two Monuments — Not One — in Honor of the Rev. Dr. G. MacLaren Brydon . . . "The Westminster Studies in Christian Communication" • THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH IN THE TUDOR AND CAROLINE WRITINGS 12 By Wilford O. Cross • CHRISTIAN LITERATURE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CEN TURY 24 By A. M. D. Henderson-Howat • ANTI-SUBSCRIPTION AND THE CLERICAL PETITION MOVEMENT IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, 1766-1772 35 By Richard B. Barlow • PARSON WOODFORDE: A CLERICAL IDYLL 50 ! By Richard G. Salomon * • ; TROLLOPE AND THE MID-VICTORIAN EPISCOPATE. . 55 I * By Thomas B. Lundeen | A REVIEW OF "ENGLISH HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS," | VOL. XI, 1783-1832 68 I By Samuel Clyde McCulloch I HISTORICAL MAGAZINE 0f the Protestant Episcopal Church f Vol. XXX JUNE, 1961 No. 2
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RECOLLECTIONS OF GENERAL CONVENTIONS, 1901-1937 72 By Edward Lambe Parsons
RELIGIOUS AND OTHER FACTORS IN THE DEFEAT OF THE "STANDING ORDER" IN CONNECTICUT, 1800-1818 93 By John J. Reardon
KEMPER COLLEGE OF MISSOURI Ill By Jack Richardson
FRANCIS HUGER RUTLEDGE, 1799-1866: FIRST BISHOP OF FLORIDA, 1851-1866 127 By Joseph D. Cushman, Jr.
ANGLICAN CHAPLAINS SERVING IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY ARMY, 1775-1783 138 By Howard L. Applegate r • HISTORICAL MAGAZINE of the Protestant Episcopal Church
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THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE ARID WEST, 1865- 1875: A STUDY IN ADAPTABILITY 142 By Lawrence L. Brown
I THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND THE CHRISTIAN SOCIAL MOVEMENT IN THE 19th CENTURY 173 By Leonel L. Mitchell •
THE HOLY ORDERS OF PETER MUHLENBERG 183 By Thomas Nelson Rightmyer
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HOW VIRGINIA SAVED THE OUTLAWED ENGLISH CAROLS 198 By Ulrich Troubetzkoy
THE CHURCH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: Annual Reports f for the Year 1960 203 (See Special Title Page, below) HISTORICAL MAGAZINE 0f the Protestant Episcopal Church
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9 • w Page EDITORIAL 227 "We Wish You Good Luck in the Name of the Lord"
REMINISCENCES OF BISHOP R. BLAND MITCHELL: The Pre-1919 Church and the Nation-Wide Campaign Revolution 230 With Introduction by the Editor
ROBERT E. LEE: CHURCHMAN 251 By Marshall W. Fishwick
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THE PAMPHLET WAR ON THE PROPOSED VIRGINIA ANGLICAN EPISCOPATE, 1767-1775 266 By George William Pilcher
BOOK REVIEWS (Pages 280 to 302)
I. AMERICAN CHURCH HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
Massachusetts Episcopalians, 1607-1957 (by the Rev. Dudley Tyng) .. NELSON R. BURR
Focus on Infinity—A Life of Phillips Brooks (by Raymond W. Albright) . E. H. ECKEL
Two Hundred Years of St. Michael's Rectors, 1721-1055 (by Albert Cecil Larned) NELSON R. BURR BOOK REVIEWS—Continued
Christ Church, Whitefish Bay. The First Twenty-Five Years of an Episcopal Parish 1931-1056 NELSON R. BU^
American Christianity. An Historical Interpretation with Representative Documents (by H. Shelton Smith and Others) RICHARD G. SALOMON
Soldiers of the Word (by John M. Gibson) E. H. ECKEL
The Blessed Communion: The Origins and History of the Diocese of Montreal 1760-1960 (by John Irwin Cooper) E. H. ECKEL
Bondsmen and Bishops (by J. Harry Bennett, Jr.) E. H. ECKEL
Mission to the Headhunters (by Frank & Marie Drown) RICHARD G. SALOMON
II. ENGLISH AND GENERAL CHURCH HISTORY
Studies in the Early British Church (by Nora K. Chadwick) E. H. ECKEL
Hugh the Chantor: The History of the Church of York, 1066-1127 (Trans, and Introduction by Charles Johnson) RICHARD G. SALOMON
Lollards and Protestants in the Diocese of York, 1500-1558 (by A. G. Dickens) E. H. ECKEL
An Era of Anglican Theology. From Gore to Temple (The Hale Memorial Lectures o£ Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, 1959) (by Arthur Michael Ramsey, now Archbishop of Canterbury) E. H. ECKEL
Luther and the Lutheran Church, 1483-1960 (by Altman K. Swihart) . E. H. ECKEL
Treatises and Sermons of Meister Eckhart (trans, by James M. Clark and John V. Skinner) E. H. ECKEL
The Intent of Toynbee's History (edit, by Edward T. Gargan) . RICHARD G. SALOMON
III. THEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY
Translating the Bible (by Frederick C. Grant) ROBERT C. DENTAN The Way of Israel (by James Muilenburg) ROBERT C. DENTAN The Day of Light (by H. B. Porter) ROBERT C. DENTAN Exploring the Bible (by Kendig Brubaker Cully) ROBERT C. DENTAN The Old Testament and Our Times (by Margaret T. Monro) .. ROBERT C. DENTAN
Index to Volume XXX (1961)