502 APPENDIX. 



In 1 790 Dr. Murray returned to America, and continued to reside in 

 Philadelphia until his death, September 14, 1793. His body lies 

 interred with those of the Sims, Morgan, Evans and Clark families, 

 with which he was connected by marriage — families particularly promi- 

 nent in the early history of the church in Philadelphia. Upon his 

 decease he left by his will directions to found bursaries in connection 

 with the university at which he graduated. 



No. IV.— Pages 185, 258. 



77?^ Case of the Episcopal Church Considered. 



[By Mr. Thomas H. Montgomery.] 



Bishop White begins the concluding paragraph of his " Episcopal 

 Charge on the subject of Revivals, delivered before the Forty-eighth 

 Convention of the Diocese of Pennsylvania, and addressed to the Cleri- 

 cal Members of the Convention, printed by order of the Convention, 

 Philadelphia, 1832," with the following words: 



Brethren, it is bordering on the half of a century since the date of the incipient 

 measures of your bishop, for the organizing of our church out of the wreck of the 

 Revolution. 



On a copy of this charge in my possession the Bishop has added, on 

 the last blank pages, the following note : 



''Those measures began with the author's pamphlet, entitled 'The 

 case of the Episcopal Churches in the United States considered.' 

 "The circumstances attached to that publication are the following: 

 " The congregations of our communion throughout the United States 

 were approaching to annihilation. Although within this city three 

 Episcopal clergymen, including the author, were resident and offici- 

 ating; the church over the rest of the State had become deprived of 

 their clergy during the war, either by death or by departure for Eng- 

 land. In the Eastern States, with two or three exceptions, there was a 

 cessation of the exercises of the pulpit; owing to the necessary disuse 

 of the prayers for the former civil rulers. In Maryland and in Virginia, 

 where the church had enjoyed civil establishments, on the ceasing of 

 these, the incumbents of the parishes, almost without exception, ceased 

 to officiate. Further south the condition of the church was not better, 



