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that he had "a very sensible pleasure in being able publicly to de- 

 clare that between your church, the Swedish, and our own Epis- 

 copal Church there has always been, from the very first, a kind 

 and loving participation of divine service and brotherly love." At 

 a much later day, 1794, when the German Lutheran Church was 

 burned down, the corporation of Christ Church put their own 

 sacred edifice at the command, for one part of the day, Sundays 

 and week-days, of these brethren.* My ancestor may perhaps 

 have considered the German Lutheran body as standing in a favored 

 position. My ecclesiastical learning will not bear me out in de- 

 ciding how this may have been. Neither would it leave his 

 integrity in any way "off color," if we were to suppose that his 

 action in this respect — a mere suggestion to the Bishop of London 

 for him to consider the matter — was done through policy, at the 

 desire of Dr. Muhlenberg, or some other Lutheran clergyman, 

 whom he was willing to conciliate, and without expectation that 

 the Bishop of London would receive them. 



Dr. Smith hoped to see in our large cities the churches daily 

 open, and morning and evening prayer said daily throughout the 



year.t 



He did not wish to see the services made too " naked, "| and we 

 may be sure, from what he had provided on several occasions of 

 religious solemnity, § that he would have enjoyed the choral ser- 

 vice — that form of service which, ever since the Reformation, the 

 Church of England has in her cathedrals, her chapels-royal and 

 collegiate churches, in her Temple church, and in the churches of 

 her Inns of Court — everywhere, in short, throughout her beautiful 

 land — would have enjoyed it, I say, to the very depths of his 

 soul. 



In regard to the holy communion, he assisted Bishop Seabury 

 in making that which was a fuller consecration of the elements 

 than the ceremony which — yielding to the demands of Puritanism — 

 the Church of England of his day made and now makes: and was, 

 in fact, the person who carried through the lower House of the 

 convention of 1 789 the views called high-church, of the great 

 churchman and Bishop of Connecticut.|| He made, too, of that 

 service an imposing celebration.^ He enforced upon his parish- 



* Dorr's History of Christ Church, p. 21S. f Stipr<7, p. 207. \ Supra, p. 2IO. 

 ^ See Vol. I., p. 544; also Dr. Smith's Writings, Maxwell's ed., Vol. II... pp. 49, 67. 

 II Si//>i7, p. 290. ^ StiJ>ra, p. 199, 



