136 EPISCOPAL CHURCHES. [CHAP. X 



sentiment in New England on matters of religion, and the great 

 popularity of his works, might desire to inscribe on his tomb 



&quot; E en in his ashes live their wonted fires.&quot; 



Some of the Episcopal churches in Boston are conducted on 

 the high, and others on the low church model ; and the Tracta- 

 rian movement has had the effect here, as in England, not of 

 establishing uniformity by a strict adherence to one rubric, but 

 of producing a much greater variety than formerly in the man 

 ner of performing public worship. If, besides striking out the 

 Athanasian Creed, the American Episcopal Church had omitted 

 the Nicene Creed, as they first proposed in 1785, and had con 

 densed and abridged the Thirty-nine Articles to twenty, measures 

 from which they were dissuaded by the English hierarchy, from 

 whose hands their first bishops required consecration, a schism 

 might probably have taken place when the Tractarian movement 

 occurred, and they might have separated into two churches far 

 more distinct than that of the Drummondites and their opponents, 

 or the partisans of the Scotch and English rubric north of the Tweed. 



In the Stone, or King s Chapel, the English liturgy is used, 

 with such omissions and alterations as are required to suit the 

 opinions of Unitarians, for that chapel was transferred from the 

 Anglican to the Unitarian Church by the conversion of the 

 minister and majority of the pew-holders. But in almost all the 

 other Unitarian churches, the service resembles in form that of 

 the established church of Scotland. Before my rst visit to 

 Boston, I had been led to believe that the majority of the 

 citizens were Unitarians ; whereas I found, on inquiry, that 

 although they may exceed in number any other single sect, and 

 comprise not a few of the richest citizens, they do not constitute 

 above one-fifth of the whole population, and scarcely more than 

 a tenth in Massachusetts generally. There is, however, another 

 sect, calling themselves Christians (pronounced Christians), pre 

 vailing largely in New England, which denies the doctrine of 

 the Trinity, and I am told that many who worship in other 

 &quot; orthodox&quot; congregations are heterodox on this point, although 

 they do not choose to become separatists. One of them observed 



