Commemoration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Organization of the Diocese of Maryland; Held in Baltimore, May 29th & 30th, 1883 1783-1883

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1883 Excerpt: ... THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN THE COLONY OF MARYLAND. BISHOP LAY'S DISCOURSE IN ST. PALL'S CHURCH. When St. John on Patmos beheld in vision the new Jerusalem coming down from Heaven as a bride adorned for her husband it was no new church that he beheld, it was no unfamiliar song that he heard. For the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. The church in heaven and in earth is identical and one, builded on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner-stone. And if the song of the ransomed be in one sense new, in another sense it is the historic strain familiar to the ears of saints, for he heard them sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb. Herein largely consists the excellence of our spiritual citizenship. The church, in the thought and mind of God, is as ancient as the sacrifice of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. In its visible form and expression it is coeval with the saintly men of every age who have made a covenant with God by sacrifice. Do we in anywise surrender our share in the Church of history, the Church of the apostles and of the fathers on whom so long lingered the glow of the Pentecostal name, the Church of the martyrs and of the (Ecumenical Councils, the Church of the Britons, the Church of St. Augustine, and of those who down to this day occupy the chair of Canterbury? Do we discard this ancestry and invent a new birthday in assembling ourselves here and now to commemorate the organization of a Diocese in this State of Maryland a century ago? baptist. Alas! that the seeds of religious discord were so freely sown in the virgin soil of Maryland! Nay, we claim this very ancestry and recognize the provi...