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ing call should come from a denomination 

 so churchly in its aim and spirit and so 

 fitted by its historic antecedents to lead 

 the other American denominations to- 

 ward Catholicity. Certain it is that 

 within this communion, almost from its 

 origin, the question has been under lively 

 discussion. The patriarchal Bishop White, 

 after the Revolution, not only gave the 

 Episcopalian body a Presbyterian consti- 

 tution of the vertebrate type, but also 

 favored organic connection with the Mo- 

 ravian, Methodist, and Lutheran commun- 

 ions. The prophetical Bishop Seabury, at 

 the same time, though he founded a differ- 

 ent school of churchmanship, named as 

 the four fixed marks of the Church, — 

 government, sacrament, faith, and doctrine, 

 which are very suggestive of the Lam- 

 beth postulates. 1 But it was reserved 

 for the saintly and beloved Muhlenberg, 

 combining both schools in himself as "an 

 Evangelical Catholic,'* to give the whole 

 movement voice and potency. In the 

 famous Memorial of 1853, composed by 

 him and addressed to the bishops, the 



1 History of the Prot. Episc. Church, by Archdeacon 

 Charles C. Tiffany, DD., p. 557, 562. 



