A SUMMARY OF THE LECTURE BY ソ The Right Hon. and Right Rev. Arthur Foley, WITH ADDITIONAL NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS DELIVERED AT TRANSCRIBED BY SADLER PHILLIPS AUTHOR OF "FULHAM PALACE' WITH A PREFACE BY THE BISHOP OF LONDON THE YOUNG CHURCHMAN CO., MILWAUKEE, WIS. Harpe (atoclements lib) T PREFACE HE following book brings back to my mind one of the most interesting hours of my life, when to some 5,000 people at Richmond in Virginia I tried to explain the interesting tie which exists between the American Episcopal Church and the old See of London. A wish has been expressed in America that some permanent record of the lecture may be preserved, and this little book is the response. I could not have satisfied that wish without the aid of the Rev. Sadler Phillips, who has given invaluable help in the matter. I hope that my brethren in the United States and Canada will be interested in the book. EDITORIAL NOTE HE sketch of the "Historical Lecture" which THE was delivered at Richmond (and the documents The quoted, with others from the Fulham MSS.) in answer to the request of the Bishops of the Church of America at the General Convention, Richmond, Virginia, October 17, 1907, are printed at the desire and by permission of, the Bishop of London. papers were prepared for the Bishop before he went to America, and were examined by his lordship, in order to found his addresses on facts and statements in these original documents. The aim of the transcriber is to illustrate the intimate connexion of the work of the Bishops of London in the past with the founding of the English colonies. As all the colonial enterprise of England seems to have followed the same thoughtful and comprehensive lines, it is hoped that the papers may have an extended usefulness, making Great Britain more than ever a colonizing nation, whose object is to extend the kingdom of Christ and benefit humanity. The Bishop wishes it to be clearly understood that he did not quote all the documents printed, and his lordship examined many others neither quoted nor reproduced. |