History of the American Episcopal Church : From the Planting of the Colonies to the End of the Civil War
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He founded a school for girls, and another for boys. But his own dream did not come true for many a year, when it was realized in the University of the South. In the first five years of his Episcopate the clergy of his diocese increased from five to twenty-one.^ But a whole generation had meanwhile been lost to the Church. To overtake the movement of population in the great West had already become well-nigh impossible. Unless the National Church should abandon its preconception of autonomous St...ate Churches it never would be possible. As to the government of the churches already within the federation, the notion of State independence was already slowly disappearing. A movement toward centraliza- tion had long since set in unobserved. Powers were even now exercised by the General Convention without question, which had at first been assumed without ques- tion to belong to the States. The time had now come for the National Church to become a Propaganda. In 1835 it abandoned its impotent attitude of Tnejiew '- departure waiting for churches to come, and resolved to move out and build them.
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