White, William. The Past and the Future, A Charge on Events Connected with the Organization of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, and the Lessons they Inculcate; Delivered before the Fiftieth Convention of the Diocese of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Published by Order of the Convention, Jesper Harding, Printer, 1834. First Edition. [9786]
Printed wrapper, light soil, top right corner turned throughout, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches, 22 pp. Good. Pamphlet.
An interesting account of the transition from being a colonial church of England, to become an American Episcopal church. He notes that all of the Anglican ministers north of Maryland at the time of the Revolution were missionaries from England. He treats with the changes to the Prayer Book and the Liturgy, and the development of an American church.
William White (1748-1836), first and fourth presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, chaplain to the Continental Congress, second US Senate chaplain, and the first bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania.