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trust you will be with us a day or two before the 29th of September, 

 rather than a day after, as we shall be pressed in respect of time. . . . 

 The C'oUege of Philadel])hia have, on Dr. White's recommendation 

 and mine, granted the degree of D. D. to the Rev. Mr. Bass and Mr. 

 Parker, which we thought a proper compliment to the New England 

 Churches. We are sorry we forgot to pay the same compliment to the 

 venerable old Mr. Leaming, of the Connecticut Church. I hope he 

 will accompany you to Philadelphia and receive that compliment from 

 us in person, if he has nowhere else received it before. 

 I remain, Right Reverend and Dear Sir, 



Yours, etc., 



\\':lliam Smith. 



777^ Commiiiee io Bishop Seabury, 



PniLADELPlIIA, August 16. 1789. 



Right Reverend Sir: Your letter to the Right Rev. Bishop White, 

 and also yours of a posterior date to the Rev. Dr. Smith, were laid 

 before the General Con\-ention of our Churches, and read with that 

 deference and regard which are due to the communications of the 

 Bishop and Pastor of a respectable sister Church,. 



As we "feel equally with you the necessity of a general union of all 

 our Churches in the United States, and lament whatever may occur as 

 tending towards the. continuance of disunion." those parts of your 

 letters which had any reference to this important point became the 

 immediate subject of the most affectionate, candid and serious discus- 

 sion ; leaving every other part, either to future joint deliberations or to 

 be noticed in the answers of the gentlemen to whom your letters were, 

 in part, personally addressed. 



.\s a committee appointed for that ])urpose, we herewith transmit to 

 vou the printed proceedings of our Convention, and also a co])}' of our 

 Address to the Archbishops and Bishops of England. By those docu- 

 ments you will readily perceive, that nothing hath been left unattempted 

 on our part, which we conceived to be conducive, either towards the 

 basis or superstructure of an union, so seemly and needful in itself, and 

 so ardently desired by all. 



By the second Article of our printed Constitiuion (as now amended) 

 you will observe that your first and chief difficulty respecting lay rep- 

 resentation is wholly removed, upon the good and wise principles 

 admitted by you as well as by us, viz.: "That there may be a strong 

 and efficacious union between churches, where the usages are in 

 some respects different." It was long so in the different dioceses of 

 England. 



By the Article of our Constitution above mentioned, the admission 

 of yours and the other Eastern Churches is provided for upon your oicn 



