Excerpt from Address of the Rt. Rev. Stephen Elliott, D. D: To the Thirty-Ninth Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the Diocese of Georgia That organization, which is styled the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, was built up out of the frag ments of the Church Of England which remained in the States after the Revolution. But little change was made in anything pertaining to its essential character as a part of the Church Catholic of Christ. It retained the Apostolic Minis try in its three Orders of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons; the Apostolic Faith, as embodied in the Creeds, the iarticles, and the Formularies Of the Church; the Sacraments as ordained by Christ himself. Its liturgical worship was adapted from that of the Church of England, with such modifications only as rendered it suitable to the new order Of the civil state. But when it came to consider its relations to the State, it found itself in a condition different both from the Church of Eng land and the Church of Rome. In the, Church of England. 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.