Orations And Essays : With Selected Parish Sermons
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Here, for the first time, Protestant sects stood on an equal footing, and the national result was a variety of religious organizations unexampled hi the Old World. This result had already shown itself before the Revolution ; and Dr. Gordon, the future historian of the war, tells us how much he 2l6 RELIGION IN AMERICA. was edified when he landed at Philadelphia, in 1770, by the spectacle of " Papists, Episcopalians, Mo- ravians, Lutherans, Calvinists, Methodists, and Quak- ers passing each other... peacefully and in good tem- per on the Sabbath, after having broken up their respective assemblies." What the good doctor saw that Sunday morning was a panorama of our future religious history ; for the annals of religion in this country are the annals not of one great national church, but of many separate communions ; and in no other way can we so clearly present to ourselves the external features, at least, of our religious prog- ress as by placing in contrast the leading religious denominations as they existed a century ago and as they exist to-day.
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