O CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XLIX. 



Matters Contemporaneous with and Collateral to the General Ec- 

 clesiastical Councils — The Proposed Book, etc. — Church Convention 

 IN Maryland, 1784 — Efforts to Prevent the Apostacy of the Meth- 

 odists — Second Commencement of Washington College — Genf:ral 

 Washington Honors it with his Presence— Dr. Smith to Dr. West 

 about the Funds for the College — Christian Frederick Post — His 

 Death and a Notice of him — A Friendly Letter from Dr. Muhlen- 

 berg TO Dr. Smith — Ordination by Bishop Seabury of a Pupil of Dr. 

 Smith Prepared for Holy Orders by the Latter and Recommended 

 FOR them by him — BisHop Seabury's great Satisfaction with the 

 Candidate — Church Convention in Maryland, a. d. 1785 — Death of 

 Dr. Charles Ridgely, a Brother- in-Law of Dr. Smith — The Rev, 

 John M. Languth — Death of GENER^fL John Cadwalader, a Nephew 

 of Dr. Smith by Marriage — Dr. Smith Preaches at the Funeral — 

 Letter of Dr. Smith's Wife referring to the Deaths of Dr. 

 Ridgely and General Cadwalader — Maryland Convention of 1787 — 

 Ordination of Dr. Smith's Kinsman, Richard Canning Moore — 

 Efforts to have the Charter of the College at Philadelphia 

 Restored — Dr. Smith to Dr. West 241 



CHAPTER L. 



The Proposed Book not so well received as might have been reason- 

 ably expected — The cause of this thus explained — Proposed by a 

 Convention before the Church was properly Organized by the 

 presence of the Episcopal Order — The New England Clergy alarmed 



BY A WRONG IMPRESSION OF THE PURPOSE OF DR. WhITE'S " CaSE OF 



the Episcopal Churches in the United States Considered" — The 

 Alterations not Agreeable to all — Bishop Seabury's statement of 

 some of the grounds of dislike— State Pride and Jealousy as much 

 a cause for the Non-reception as any better reasons — The work 



TOO HASTILY DONE — LETTER TO Dr. WEST 256 



CHAPTER LI. 



The Convention of 1789, A great Ecclesiastical Council — Dr. Smith is 



CALLED ON UNEXPECTEDLY TO PrEACH ON ITS OPENING, AND SOON AFTER- 

 WARDS ON THE SUDDEN DEATH OF Dr. GRIFFITH, BiSHOP-ELECT OF VIR- 

 GINIA — A Memoir of Dr. Griffith — The Convention delicately situ- 

 ated IN REGARD TO BiSHOP SfABURY — BiSHOP PrOVOOST'S SOMEWHAT 

 ECCENTRIC course IN RECiARD TO THIS EMINENT AND PIOUS PRELATE 



Dignified course of Bishop Seabury — Dr. Smith, along with Bishop 

 White, accommodate matters between Bishop Seabury and the 

 Convention — The Validity of Bishop Seabury's Episcopal Orders, on 

 motion of Dr. Smith, fully Recognized by the Convention — The 

 Convention temporarily Adjourns in order to give time for further 

 Consultation — Correspondence between Dr. Smith and Bishop Sea- 

 bury — The latter, with Representatives from New Hampshire and 

 Maine, comes into the Adjourned Convention — A General Union 

 effected a. d. 1789, in Philadelphia, in the same room in the State 



