1785] JiEV. WILLIAM SMITH, D. D. I I9 



This Philadelphia Convention of 1785 appointed a committee, 

 of which Dr. Smith was again the chairman, "to considei of and 

 report such alterations in the liturgy as shall render it consistent 

 with the American Revolution and the constitutions of the respec- 

 tive States, and such further alterations in the liturgy as it may be 

 advisable for this Convention to recommend^ 



This committee, which was in part clerical, and in part lay, was 

 thus composed : 



^ ^-. ^j f The Rev. Mr. Provoost and the Hon. 



For New York, ■{ t,. y^ 



' \ Mr. Duane. 



" New Jersey, The Rev. Mr. Beach and Mr. Dennis. 



" Pennsylvania, The Rev. Dr. White and Mr. Peters. 



,. T^ fThe Rev. Dr. Wharton and Mr. 



' Delaware, - ^ i. 



I oyKCs. 



,, ,fl. f The Rev. Dr. Smith and Dr. 



^^^^'^^^^' i Cradock. 



" Virginia, The Rev. Mr. Griffith and Mr. Page. 



u a r- i The Rev. Dr. Purcell and the Hon. 



South Carolina, <^ ^^^ ^^^^_ 



This committee made frequent reports. It having been resolved 

 by this Convention that the 4th of July should be forever ob- 

 served as a day of Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the in- 

 estimable blessings of Religious and Civil Liberty vouchsafed to 

 the United States of America, a committee, consisting of the Rev. 

 Dr. Smith, the Rev. Dr. Magaw, the Rev. Dr. Wharton and the 

 Rev. Mr. Campbell, were appointed to prepare the proper form of 

 prayer and thanksgiving. 



The alterations which, according to a record left us by Bishop 

 Wliite in his Memoirs,* were resolved on, and the alteration pro- 

 posed and recommended by the General Convention of 1785 — 

 General we call it, though no churches from the New England 

 States were represented — were these. They were made after 

 reports from the committee : 



I. Alterations agreed on and confir7}icd in Cotivention, for rendering the 

 Litutgy conformable to the pri7tciples of the American Revolution, an 

 the constitutions of the sc7<cral States. 



* Second Ediliun. New York, 1836, page 363. 



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