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which now have their hundreds of thousands of 

 people, were more than villages, if indeed they 

 existed in any shape at all. Among the laborers 

 in the foreign field were Bishops Payne and Boone, 

 the former spending over twenty years in Africa, 

 and the latter a shorter, but none the less useful 

 period in China. Both of them were men of 

 singular devotion, and their works do follow them. 

 The pages of the history of the American 

 Church contain many a bright record made by 

 the noble deeds of her children. We are stand- 

 ing too near what they did to appreciate their 

 struggles, but the day will come when the names 

 of faithful Bishops, zealous clergymen, and 

 saintly men will shine out with clearness, and we 

 will read the story of their lives to feel that they 

 prove apostolic descent by apostolic deeds. 



Of the religious bodies which have sprung up 

 since the Reformation, and which have discarded the 

 primitive form of Church government, the leading 

 ones to-day in this country are the Congregation- 

 alists, the Baptists, the Presbyterians, the Metho- 

 dists, the Unitarians, the Lutherans and the Quakers. 

 There are many others, indeed the list is very large, 

 for one result of the reaction from the former condi- 

 tion of things has been to encourage the formation 

 of independent organizations. 



The Congregationalists, once called Indepen- 

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