CONTENTS. 5 



Conference is Made at a Meeting of the Clergy to Re-establish the 

 Corporation for the Relief of the Widows and Children of the 

 Clergy, Founded, 1769 — Ecclesiastical Convention of Pennsylvania, 

 May 25TH, 17S4 — Declaration by it of Principles — Ecclesiastical 

 Convention of Maryland, June 220, 1784 — Dr. Smith's Sermon at it — 

 Declaration by it of Principles Sufficiently Harmonious with those 

 OF the Pennsylvania Convention — Convention of Several States in 

 New York, October 6th, 1784 — Dr. Smith Presides — Fundamental 

 Principles Declared by it, and Proceedings End — Dr. Smith Chair- 

 man of Committee to Frame an Ecclesiastical Constitution and to 

 Frame and Propose a Proper Substitute for the State Prayers — Dr. 

 Smith Elected President of the Corporation for the Relief of the 

 Widows, etc 103 



CHAPTER XLVI. 



Convention of the Church in Seven States, held a. d. 1785, at Christ 

 Church in Philadelphia — Dr. Smith Chairman of a Committee to 

 make a Review of and Further Alterations, with Additions to the 

 Liturgy — The Thirty-nine Articles Presented in a Condensed 

 Form — The Alterations, Additions and Condensation Adopted by 

 THE Convention — The Whole Ordered to be Printed in a Book — 

 The Proposed Book — Dr. Smith Requested to Preach a Sermon at 

 the Close of the Convention suited to the Solemn Occasion — He 

 DOES so — Extracts from the Sermon — Dr. White, Dr. Smith and the 

 Rev. Mr. C. H. Wharton, at this time of New Castle, Delaware, 

 but better known afterwards as Dr. Wharton, of Burlington, New 

 Jersey, appointed a Committee to see the Proposed Book through 

 the Press 118 



CHAPTER XLVn. 



Correspondence between Dr. Smith and Dr. White, with a Letter 

 from Dr. Wharton to the latter while the Copy of the " Proposed 

 Book" was going through the Press, including Dr. White's " Hints 

 FOR A Preface," and Dr. Smith's Preface — Dr. Smith to the Rev. 

 Samuel Parker 141 



CHAPTER XLVni. 



The " Proposed Book " — Absurd Pretensions of the so-called " Re- 

 formed Episcopal Church," that the Schism of their Sect found 

 Support in it — History of the Formation of the Book — Dr. Smith 

 chiefly entitled to the Credit of it — Some Description of the 

 Respective Ecclesiological Characters and Tastes of Dr. Smith, Dr. 

 White and Dr. Wharton, as applied to this Subject — Dr. Smith's 

 Services in Procuring the Episcopal Succession — Adjourned General 

 Convention of 1786 at Wilmington — A Partial Compliance with the 

 Suggestions of the English Archbishops — Dr. White, Dr. Provost 

 and Dr. Griffith Recommended to the English Bishops for Conse- 

 cration — Maryland Convention of 1786 — Attestation by his Parish 

 Officers in Maryland of Dr. Smith's Fitness for Consecration.... 203 



