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Page EDITORIALS 4 Twenty-Seventh Year! Twenty-Seventh Volume! . . . Some Additions to "Among Our Contemporaries" . . . "The Rev erend Benjamin Sebastian: Anglican Priest and Judge."
"American Religious Philosophy and The Pastoral Letters of The House of Bishops "
By GEORGE REUBEN METCALF
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f CONTENTS Page "MY LITTLE BOOK OF PRAISE": A MISCELLANY OF MEDITATIONS AND VIEWS ON CHURCH UNITY FROM THE UNPUBLISHED PAPERS OF BISHOP CHARLES HENRY BRENT (1862-1929) 89 Edited by Frederick Ward Kates (See Special Title Page, below) • JOHN FREDERICK HAEGER, S.P.G. MISSIONARY TO THE PALATINES 112 By Glenn Weaver • PHILANDER CHASE'S CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY OF BISHOPS, 1844 126 By Richard G. Salomon • BOOK REVIEWS (Pages 130 to 175) I. AMERICAN CHURCH HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY The Episcopal Church in South Carolina, 1820-1957 (by Albert Sidney Thomas) GEORGE E. DEMILLE The Life of John Smith, English Soldier (by Henry Wharton ; trans, by Laura Polanyi Striker) A. PIERCE MIDDLETON The Great Awakening in New England (by Edwin Scott Gaustad) . ROBERT S. BOSHER American Churches and the Negro—An Historical Study from Early Slave Days to the present (by W. D. Weatherford) R. B. ELEAZER Walking With God: A Devotional Miscellany (by Bishop Charles Henry Brent; edited by Frederick W. Kates) BRIAN TAYLOR Lee Chronicle: Studies of the Early Generations of the Lees of Virginia (by Cazenove Gardner Lee, Jr. ; edited by Dorothy Mills Parker) A. PIERCE MIDDLETON 1
AMONG OUR CONTEMPORARIES . . Edited by DUBOSE MURPHY Nebraska History (June, 1957) William and Mary Quarterly (July, 1957) Pacific Historical Review (May, 1957).
II. ENGLISH AND GENERAL CHURCH HISTORY A History of Anthony Bek, Bishop of Durham, 1283-1311 (by C. M. Fraser) JOSEPH H. HALL III Activities of the Puritan Faction of the Church of England, 1625-33 (edited by Isabel M. Calder) ROBERT S. BOSHER Puritanism in the Period of the Great Persecution, 1660-1688 (by Gerald R. Cragg) ROBERT S. BOSHER The Moral Revolution of 1688 (by Dudley W. R. Bahlman) ROBERT S. BOSHER Whit Kennett, 1660-1728, Bishop of Peterborough (by G. V. Bennett) E. H. ECKEL North Country Bishop: A Biography of William Nicolson (by Francis Godwin James ) ROBERT S. BOSHER Thomas Haweis, 1734-1820 (by Arthur S. Wood) KENDIG B. CULLY Anglicanism: The Thought and Practices of the Church of England, Illustrated from the Religious Literature of the 17th Century (Comp, and ed. by Paul Elmer More and Frank Leslie Cross) JOHN R. RAMSEY Church and Parish (by Charles Smyth) KENDIG B. CULLY The Changing Church: Its Architecture, Art and Decoration (by Katharine M. McClinton) KENDIG B. CULLY Albert Schweitzer: The Story of His Life (by Jean Pierhal) ... c. RANKIN BARNES The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (edited by F. L. Cross) RICHARD G. SALOMON Byzantium: Greatness and Decline (by Charles Diehl ; trans, by Naomi Walford, with an introduction by Peter Charanis) NELSON RIGHTMYER The Holy Fire: The Story of the Fathers of the Eastern Church (by Robert Payne)
NELSON RIGHTMYER 1. The Canonical Aspect of Intercommunion (by H. J. Kotsonis) 2. Problems of Ecclesiastical Economy (by H.J. Kotsonis) G. G. ARKNAKIS III. THEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY Early Latin Theology (trans, and ed. by S. L. Greenslade) E. H. ECKEL 1. The Ministry in Historical Perspective (ed. by H. Richard Niebuhr and Daniel D. Williams) 2. Yale and the Ministry (by Roland H. Bainton) W. NORMAN PITTENGER fhe Church, the Ministry, and Reunion (by W. Norman Pittenger) E. H. ECKEL
Existentialism and Theology (by George W. Davis) E. J. COOK The Bible and the Human Quest (by Algernon Odell Steele) E. J. COOK J_ Athenagoras, Embassy for the Christians, the Resurrection of the Dead (trans, and annotated by Joseph Hugh Crehan, S.J.) 2. Tertullian, the Treatise Against Hermogenes (trans, and annotated by J. H. Waszink) 3, St. Cyprian, the Lapsed, the Unity of the Catholic Church (trans, and annotated by Maurice Bevenot) E. R. HARDY The Pseudo-Cyprianic De Pascha Computus (trans, by George Ogg)
E. R. HARDY Tertullian's Treatise on the Incarnation (ed. by Ernest Evans) E. R. HARDY Unity in the Faith (by Wm. Porcher DuBose; ed. by W. Norman Pittenger)
DUBOSE MURPHY The Pulpit Rediscovers Theology (by Theodore O. Wedel) .... DUBOSE MURPHY Understanding the Sacraments (by Carrell E. Simcox) DUBOSE MURPHY Christian Living (by Stephen F. Bayne, Jr.) DUBOSE MURPHY We Want to Know (by Dora P. Chaplin) KENDIG B. CULLY Thoughts for Times Like These (by S. Ralph Harlow) KENDIG B. CULLY Things I Always Thought I Knew (by Edward N. West) CLARENCE A. LAMBELET Be Not Anxious (by Randolph C. Miller) c. RANKIN BARNES Reality, Reason and Religion (by Arthur Anton Vogel) JOHN S. MARSHALL Aspects of Culture (by Harry L. Shapiro) JOHN S. MARSHALL Plato and the Christians (by Adam Fox) JOHN S. MARSHALL Science and the Love of God (by Frank J. Pirone) JOHN S. MARSHALL The Strange Story of a Minister's Life (by John Lewis) DUBOSE MURPHY The Parish Comes Alive (by Ernest W. Southcott) DUBOSE MURPHY The King in His Beauty (by Miles Lowell Yates) DUBOSE MURPHY The Single Eye (by Austin Pardue) DUBOSE MURPHY King Henry VIII (by Wm. Shakespeare; ed. by R. A. Foakes) MAURICE CHARNEY Great Christian Plays (ed. by Theodore MacL. Switz and Robert A. Johnston) KENDIG B. CULLY HISTORICAL MAGAZINE
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EDITORIALS 178 On the Threshold of a Victory !... Associate Editor Murphy Honored! ... A Tribute from the Archdeacon of Western New York . . . "Guide to Photocopied Historical Materials."
TWO ANGLICAN APPROACHES TO UNITY 182 I. Some Relations Between the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches, 1896-1926 II. The Relations Between the Anglican and Old Catholic Churches By Duncan Van Dusen
THE PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENT CHURCH (Iglesia Filipina Independiente) 209 By Norman S. Binsted
THE FOUNDING OF THE EPISCOPAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE SOUTHWEST 247 By William A. Clebsch ^HISTORICAL MAGAZINE i 0f the Protestant Episcopal Church
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Pf" ^^ it f- A STUDY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE OFFICE OF r PRESIDING BISHOP OF THE AMERICAN EPISCO PAL CHURCH, 1794-1944 254 By William Joseph Barnds
ARMY CHAPLAINS AT FRONTIER POSTS, 1830-1860 . . 287 By Richard D. Gamble
\ THE SOCIAL THOUGHT OF WILLIAM AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG 307 By Richard G. Becker
THE HISTORY AND SYMBOLISM OF THE FLAG OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH 324 By Jane Houghtaling Luce
"THE WAY OF PEACE": A Sermon Preached by Bishop Charles Henry Brent (1862-1929) in Canterbury Cathedral, November 25, 1928 332
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EDITORIALS 4 Twenty-Eighth Year! Twenty-Eighth Volume! ... In Me- moriam : William Warren Sweet ! ... To Frank J. Klingberg : A Tribute ! . . . Catalog of the Manuscript Holdings of the General Theological Seminary Completed. . . .
WILLIAM DWIGHT PORTER BLISS: PRIEST AND SOCIALIST 9 By Christopher L. Webber {See Special Title Page, below)
SOME RELATIONS BETWEEN THE ANGLICAN AND EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCHES 40 By Duncan Van Dusen • THE EPISCOPATE OF BISHOP KEMP OF MARYLAND 66 By Nelson W. Rightmyer
THE CHURCH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: Annual Reports for the Year 1958 81 {See Special Title Page, below) HISTORICAL MAGAZINE
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Page EDITORIALS Ill Why Study History? . . . The Importance of an Alert Laity ... To Richard G. Salomon—A Tribute!
THE CHURCH, THE CHINESE, AND THE NEGROES IN CALIFORNIA, 1849-1893 115 By Lionel U. Ridout
BAYARD HALE JONES (1887-1957) : PRIEST, TEACHER, LITURGIOLOGIST 139 By George M. Alexander •
GEORGE WASHINGTON AND THE METHODISTS . . 165 By Paul F. Boller, Jr. »
THE LIBRARY OF THE CHURCH HISTORICAL SOCIETY 187 By Frederick L. Chenery •
RECENT BOOKS IN CHURCH HISTORY 191 By Robert S. Bosher HISTORICAL MAGAZINE
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Page EDITORIALS 218 The New Archivist of the Church Historical Society: Dr. Virginia Nelle Bellamy . . . "The Clerical Directory, 1959" . . . Ordinations by Bishop Robert Smith of South Carolina.
JOHN MASON NEALE (1818-1866) : VERSATILE DIVINE, WARDEN OF SACKVILLE COLLEGE, FOUNDER OF THE SISTERHOOD OF ST. MARGARET 222 By William H. Boar •
AMERICAN PAPERS IN LAMBETH PALACE LIBRARY 257 By Geoffrey Bill •
THE LIBRARY OF ROBERT LEIGHTON (1611-1684), BISHOP OF DUNBLANE 261 By G. W. H. Davidson •
"LO, I COME TO DO THY WILL, O GOD" : AN APPRE CIATION OF BISHOP CHARLES HENRY BRENT (1862-1929) 267 By Frederick Ward Kates Copyright © 1959 The Church Historical Society BOOK REVIEWS (Pages 273 to 296)
I. AMERICAN CHURCH HISTORY
A Brief History of the Church in West Texas (by Lawrence L. Brown) EH. ECKEL 1859—And the Bishop Came to Austin (by Weldon Hart) E- H. ECKEL The First Hundred Years: The Diocese of Kansas (edited by a Centennial Com mittee E. H. ECKEL The Episcopal Church in Fulton County, Illinois, 1835-1939 (by Constance H. Swartzbaugh) RICHARD G. SALMON
II. ENGLISH AND GENERAL CHURCH HISTORY
Reformation and Reaction in Tudor Cambridge (by H. C. Porter) E. H. ECKEL The Sicilian Vespers (by Stephen Runciman) NELSON RIGHTMYER The Canons of the Council of Sardia, A.D. 343: A Landmark in the Early Devel opment of Canon Law (by Hamilton Hess) NELSON RIGHTMYER Early Christian Doctrines (by J. N. D. Kelly) E. H. ECKEL Origen, The Song of Songs, Commentary and Homilies (translated and annotated by R. P. Lawson) EDWARD ROCHIE HARDY St. Methodius, The Symposium, A Treatise on Chastity (translated and annotated by Herbert A. Musirillo) EDWARD ROCHIE HARDY The Patriarch Nicephorus of Constantinople, Ecclesiastical Policy and Image Worship in the Byzantine Empire (by Paul J. Alexander) EDWARD ROCHIE HARDY
III. THEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY
Parents and Priests as Servants of Redemption (by Athenagoras Kokkinakis) NELSON RIGHTMYER The Thirty-Nine Articles (by Kenneth N. Ross) W. NORMAN PITTENGER Believing (by Herbert Waddams) W. NORMAN PITTENGER Meditations on the Nicene Creed (by Princess Illeana) ... W. NORMAN PITTENGER Kirkbridge Conversations (by Harry Blamires) W. NORMAN PITTENGER The Presence of Eternity: History and Eschatology (by Rudolf Bultmann) E. J. COOK A Book of Prayers (compiled by John Heuss) Fiante in the Mind (by Gordon Lewis Phillips) So Easy to Love (by Brother Roger, CR.) The Third Hour (by Ben A. Meginniss) DUBOSE MURPHY Rigger Than Little Rock (by Robert R. Brown) DUBOSE MURPHY Holy Island (by James W. Kennedy) DUBOSE MURPHY Letters from the Saints (compiled by Claude Williamson) DUBOSE MURPHY Jesus: Lord and Christ (by John Knox) DUBOSE MURPHY The Ministry of Healing (by John Ellis Large) DUBOSE MURPHY Baruch Spinosa. The Road to Inner Freedom (by Dagobert Runes)
JOHN S. MARSHALL The Book of God by Spinosa (edited by Dagobert Runes) .. JOHN S. MARSHALL Moral, Aesthetic and Religious Insight (by Theodore Meyer Greene) JOHN S. MARSHALL Documents of Modern Political Thought (edited by T. E. Utley) and J. Maclure) JOHN S. MARSHALL Christianity, Democracy and Technology (by Zoltan Sztankay) JOHN S. MARSHALL Scientific View of Religion (by Ethel Belle Morrow) JOHN S. MARSHALL Language and Religion (by Ben F. Kimpel) JOHN S. MARSHALL The Birth of the Gospel (by William Benjamin Smith) .. JOHN S. MARSHALL Golgotha and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Samaria, the Capital of the Kingdom of Israel. Babylon and the Old Testament. (Vols. 6, 7, and 8 in Studies in Biblical Archaeology: by Andre Parrot) ROBERT C. DENTAN The Core of the Bible (by Austin Farrer) ROBERT C. DENTAN Concise Dictionary of Judaism (edited by Dagobert D. Runes) ROBERT C. DENTAN f
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• Page EDITORIALS 300 Over 11,000 Pages of Church History and Biography . . . Fulham Papers Project . . . "My Little Book of Praise" and the Forward Movement . . . "The Anglican Digest" • THE JOHN HENRY HOBART OF TEXAS : ALEXANDER GREGG (1819-1893), FIRST BISHOP OF TEXAS, 1859-1893 . 306 By Lawrence L. Brown
CALEB SMITH IVES, PRIEST, AND THE BEGINNINGS OF CHRIST CHURCH, MATAGORDA, TEXAS .... 324 By Andrew Forest Muir • WILLIAM FAIRFAX GRAY, LAYMAN, FOUNDER OF CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, HOUSTON, TEX AS 341 By Andrew Forest Muir
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