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Excerpt from Sketches of Church Life in Colonial Connecticut: Being the Story of the Transplanting of the Church of England Into Forty-Two Parishes of Connecticut, With the Assistance of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel The editing of this book has been a labor of love on the part of a worthy descendant of the Second Bishop of Connecticut. For myself this history of beginnings has a peculiar interest, because my own service in the priesthood was begun just over the New York border in the old parish of Rye, which sent forth the Rev. George Muirson and Colonel Heathcote on their missionary journeys to the shores and hillsides of Fairfield County, and was thus the mother parish of us all. But a higher than any personal interest attaches to this story. In the early history of our American Church there is no chapter more interesting and none, I venture to assert, more important than that which relates to Connecticut. In her colonial clergy, many of whom had come into the Church because of conviction and at no little sacrifice, was illustrated a type distinctively characteristic of Connecticut. Her churchmanship was rooted the more deeply and firmly by battle with the winds of opposition and adversity. Hers is our most venerable see and hers our first Bishop, whose consecration, moreover, links us with the romantic history of the Scottish Church. Hers has been the richest contribution to our Prayer-Book, and hers an unfailing championship of primitive truth and apostolic order. For a parish or for a diocese it is an excellent thing to have honorable traditions. But it is an inheritance that brings with it responsibility. As we face the problems and the tasks of a new century, it is well thus to have reviewed the days of old. The Connecticut Churchmen of the Eighteenth Century were worthy of commemoration. May those of the Twentieth prove themselves worthy of their heritage! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.