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To to T- HISTORICAL MAGAZINE of the Protestant 03 < to to t- HISTORICAL MAGAZINE of the Protestant "Episcopal Church Vol. XXIII MARCH, 1954 No. 1 f CONTENTS -Page EDITORIALS 6 Twenty-Third Year! Twenty-Third Volume! ... In Historiography—-Virginians to the Fore ! THE EPISCOPATE OF THOMAS FIELDING SCOTT (1807- 1867), FIRST MISSIONARY BISHOP OF OREGON AND WASHINGTON, 1854-1867 10 By Thomas E. Jessett BISHOP DANIEL SYLVESTER TUTTLE IN THE WEST. 54 By Kenneth L. Holmes THE ELECTION OF BENJAMIN T. ONDERDONK AS FOURTH BISHOP OF NEW YORK 65 By Walter H. Stowe THE MARYLAND DIOCESAN LIBRARY 69 By Nelson W. Rightmyer BOOK REVIEWS (Pages 72-112) I. AMERICAN CHURCH HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY The American Church of the Protestant Heritage (edited by Vergilius Ferm) E. H. ECKEL The History of American Church Music (by Leonard Ellinwood) HERBERT BOYCE SATCHER The Polish National Catholic Church in America and Poland (by Theodore Andrews) LOUIS A. HASELMAYER A Short History of the Diocese of South Carolina (Foreword by George W. Williams) GEORGE E. DEMILLE Historic Philadelphia (edited by Luther P. Eisenhart) WILLIAM WILSON MANROSS John McMillan, The Apostle of Presbyterianism in the West, 1752- 1833 (by Dwight Raymond Guthrie) G. MACLAREN BRYDON Lyman Abbott, Christian Evolutionist—A Study in Religious Liberalism (by Ira V. Brown) E. H. ECKEL The Correspondence between Henry Stephens Randall and Hugh Blair Grigsby (edited by Frank J. Klingberg and Frank W. Kling- berg) RICHARD P. MCCORMICK The Historiographer, 1953 (edited by Walter H. Stowe). .R. D. MIDDLETON Puritan Sage: Collected Writings of Jonathan Edwards (edited by Vergilius Ferm) DUBOSE MURPHY Korean Adventure (by Austin Pardue) DUBOSE MURPHY PARISH HISTORIES: St. Luke's Episcopal Church [Salisbury, North Carolina], 1753- 1953 (by William S. Powell) WILLIAM WILSON MANROSS An Historical Note [of St. Bartholomew's Church, Hempstead, Texas] (by Frank MacDonald Spindler) ANDREW FOREST MUIR AMONG OUR CONTEMPORARIES : Church History (March, 1953) . North Carolina Historical Review (April, 1953) . Ohio State Archaeological and His­ torical Quarterly (January, 1953) . South Carolina His­ torical Magazine (January, 1953) . Transactions of the Huguenot Society (August, 1952) . Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (XII, 1) . American Historical Review (October, 1953) DUBOSE MURPHY II. ENGLISH AND GENERAL CHURCH HISTORY Spiritual Authority in the Church of England: An Enquiry (by Edward Charles Rich) E.H. ECKEL Western Canon Law (by Robert C. Mortimer). JACKSON A. DYKMAN Infallible Fallacies (by Some Priests of the Anglican Communion) W. NORMAN PITTINGER Godfrey Goodman, Bishop of Gloucester, 1583-1656 (by Geoffrey Ingle Soden) ROBERT S. BOSHER James Stewart, Earl of Moray: A Political Study of the Reformation in Scotland (by Maurice Lee, Jr.) BERNERD C. WEBER The Man in Leather Breeches: The Life and Times of George Fox (by Vernon Noble) ROBERT S. BOSHER The Works of St. Patrick (translated and annotated by Ludwig Bieler) E. R. HARDY The Library of Christian Classics. Vol. I. Early Christian Fathers (translated and edited by Cyril C. Richardson). Vol. XXIV. Zwingli and Bullinger (edited by G. W. Bromley) PERCY V. NORWOOD Reformation Writings of Martin Luther (translated by Bertram Lee Woolf). Vol. I. The Basis of the Protestant Reformation PERCY V. NORWOOD The Formation of the New Testament (by H. F. D. Sparks)... E. j. COOK Exeter (by Brian Cook) R. D. MIDDLETON III. THEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY What Is Christianity? (by Walter Lowrie) E. H. ECKEL Action in the Liturgy, Essential and Unessential (by Walter Lowrie) MASSEY H. SHEPHERD, JR. The Christian A pproach to Culture (by Emil Caillet).... WALTER LOWRIE War, Peace, and the Christian Mind (by James Thayer Addison) E. H. ECKEL The Christian Gospel and the Parish Church: An Introduction to Parish Dynamics (by Charles Duell Kean) E. H. ECKEL Faith and Moral Authority (by Benjamin Kimpel). .JOHN s. MARSHALL The Protestant Credo (edited by Vergilius Ferm) W. NORMAN PITTINGER The Anglican Pulpit Today (edited by Frank D. Gifford) DUBOSE MURPHY Christ and the Human Life (by Fredrich Wilhelm Foerster) DUBOSE MURPHY Sparks of Fire (by Thomas N. Carruthers) DUBOSE MURPHY Jesus Christ The Light of the World (by William P. Witsell) DUBOSE MURPHY Buddhism and Zen (by Nyogen Senzaki and Ruth S. McCandless) The Doubting Thomas (by Russell P. Davies) Atoms, Men and God (by Paul E. Sabine) God and the Universe (by Holger C. Langmack) W. NORMAN PITTINGER This Our Sacrifice (by L. A. E. Horsfield and H. Riley) My Book of Personal Devotions (by Louisa B. Gile) Parents' Prayers (by Muriel S. Curtis) Alice in Bibleland (by George Wills) DUBOSE MURPHY HISTORICAL MAGAZINE 0f the Protestant Episcopal Church Vol. XXIII JUNE, 1954 No. 2 f CONTENTS "English Church History Number" Page EDITORIALS 114 The Expansion of the Anglican Communion . An­ glican Unity . Anglican Attitudes . Anglicanism and Repentance ... An Example of Anglican Good Faith . Bishop Binsted—Missionary Statesman! . A Letter from the Editor of the "Church Quarterly Re­ view" . The Conclusion of "The Episcopal Church—- A Miniature History." THE PAN-ANGLICAN CONGRESS OF 1908 126 By Robert S. Bosher TITHE REFORM IN THE ENGLISH CHURCH, 1830-1836. 143 By Robert T. Turner THE HIGHER LEARNING IN PURITAN ENGLAND.... 167 By Richard Schlatter THE ANTICLERICALISM OF GERRARD WINSTANLEY. 188 By Fred Stripp JOHN MAUNSELL AND ROBERT GROSSTESTE, BISHOP OF LINCOLN 202 By Joseph 0. Baylen A LETTER OF ANTHONY a WOOD TO BISHOP WILLIAM LLOYD 208 By Curt F. Bühler HISTORICAL MAGAZINE of the Protestant Episcopal Church Vol. XXIII SEPTEMBER, 1954 No. 3 f CONTENTS "Southern Church History Number" Page EDITORIAL 214 The Book-of-the-Month in American Church History: "The Anglican Church in New Jersey." THE REVEREND SAMUEL THOMAS AND HIS "AC­ COUNT OF THE CHURCH IN SOUTH CAROLINA," 1702-1706" 219 By Albert Sidney Thomas HEIR OF HOPES: HISTORICAL SUMMARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH 258 By Arthur Ben Chitty THE REVEREND JOHN T. CLARK: EPISCOPAL UNIONIST IN VIRGINIA 266 By Frank W. Klingberg HISTORIC PARISHES: SAINT PAUL'S CHURCH, RICH­ MOND 277 By G. MacLaren Brydon BOOK REVIEWS (Pages 293-315) I. AMERICAN CHURCH HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution (by Charles Woodmason; edited by Richard J. Hooker) ALBERT SIDNEY THOMAS 212 HISTORICAL MAGAZINE TWO DIOCESAN HISTORIES History of the Diocese of Harrisburg (by Ralph T. Wolfgang) Pioneering God's Country (by Thomas E. Jessett) GEORGE E. DEMILLE The Historiographer, 1954, Vol. II, No. 4 (edited by Walter H. Stowe) R. D. MIDDLETON The Episcopal Church Annual, 1954 (edited by Linden H. Morehouse) R. D. MIDDLETON History of the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in the United States, 1825-1934, and the Evangelical and Reformed Church, 1934-1952 (by George Warren Richards) ROBERT S. BOSHER The Catholic Indian Missions and Grant's Peace Policy (by Peter J. Rahill) DUBOSE MURPHY History of the Chaplain Corps, United States Navy: Volume 4, 1946 to 1952 (by Clifford M. Drury) KENNETH D. PERKINS AMONG OUR CONTEMPORARIES : The Rev. James Warley Miles (Dalcho Historical Society). Catholic Historical Review (January, 1954) . Mississippi Valley Historical Review (March, 1954). II. ENGLISH AND GENERAL CHURCH HISTORY The Life of the Right Reverend, the Honourable Charles James Stewart (by Thomas R. Millman) E.H. ECKEL What Do We Mean by Reunion? A Reply to "Problems of Reunion" by the Bishop of Derby (by C. B. Moss) E. R. HARDY The Rise of Methodism: A Source Book (by Richard M. Cameron) ROBERT S. BOSHER Der Katholische Luther ["Luther the Catholic"] (by Karl August Meissinger) RICHARD G. SALOMON The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages (by Beryl Smalley) RICHARD G. SALOMON Regularis Concordia—The Monastic Agreement of the Monks and Nuns of the English Nation [Mediaeval Classics] (edited and translated by Dom Thomas Symons) E. R. HARDY The Council of Chalcedon: A Historical and Doctrinal Survey (by R. V. Sellers) E. R. HARDY Cults and Creeds in Graeco-Roman Egypt [the Forwood Lectures, 1952] (by H. Idris Bell) E. R. HARDY CONTENTS 213 III. THEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY What Is the Priesthood? A Book on Vocation (by John V. Butler and W. Norman Pittenger) E.H. ECKEL The Apocrypha, Bridge of the Testaments (by Robert C. Dentan) CORWIN C. ROACH The House of Understanding: Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Taylor (by Margaret Gest) ROBERT S. BOSHER The Nature of Christian Worship (by J. Alan Kay) MASSEY H. SHEPHERD, JR. The Historic Principle of the Indissolubility of Marriage (by Edward B. Guerry) p. v. NORWOOD / Here Present Unto You: Six Addresses Interpreting the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (by the Archbishop of Canter­ bury) DUBOSE MURPHY Immanuel: The Story of the Living Christ, the Lord of the Church (by Frederick Charles Rune) DUBOSE MURPHY The Development of Negro Religion (by Ruby F. Johnston) DUBOSE MURPHY Roadblocks to Faith (by James A. Pike and John McG. Krumm) DUBOSE MURPHY The Revelations of Mechthild of Magdeburg, or the Flowing Light of the Godhead (translated by Lucy Menzies) E. R. HARDY The Episcopal Church: Its Message for Men of Today (by George Parkin Atwater) DUBOSE MURPHY The Catechism Today (by G. Ashton Oldham) DUBOSE MURPHY A Rule of Life (by Frank Newton Howden) DUBOSE MURPHY The Way of Light (by Christine Fleming Heffner). .DUBOSE MURPHY The Seven Words from the Cross (by Father Andrew). .DUBOSE MURPHY Letters to My Daughter (by Dagobert D. Runes) DUBOSE MURPHY The Pocket History of Freemasonry (by Fred L. Pick and G. Norman Knight) DUBOSE MURPHY Fear Not! (by Henry Irving Louttit) DUBOSE MURPHY Now I Can Tell (by Quentin K. Y. Huang) DUBOSE MURPHY HISTORICAL MAGAZINE of the Protestant Episcopal Church Vol. XXIII DECEMBER, 1954 No. 4 CONTENTS Page EDITORIALS 319 A Boon to Students of Episcopal Church History! Why Study History? THE SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF CHRIS­ TIANITY IN PENNSYLVANIA 321 By Donald Russell Gardner LIST OF EPISCOPAL CLERGYMEN IN "APPLETONS' CYCLOPAEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY" AND IN THE "DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN BIO­ GRAPHY" 353 Compiled by William H.
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