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 TO THE 
 
 CLERGY AND LAITY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Cljiirrlj in tlie CuntViiwutr Itnte 
 
 OF AMERICA.. 
 
 DELIVERED BEFORE THE GENERAL COLlNClL, 
 m $T PAULAS CHURCH, AUCUSTA, 
 
 Saturday, J^ov. 22d, 1862. 
 
 AUGUSTA, GA.: 
 Steam Power Press Chronicle St Sentinel 
 
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 PASTOKAL LETTER. 
 
 At your request, brethren of the Clergy and Laity, we 
 conclude the session of our First General Council by pre- 
 senting to you and reading in your presence a Pastoral 
 Letter, addressed to the members of the Protestant Episco- 
 pal Church scattered throughout the Confederate States. 
 By the mighty power of the Holy Ghost we have been per- 
 mitted to bring our deliberations to a close in a spirit of 
 harmony and peace which augurs well for the future wel- 
 fare of our branch of the Church Catholic ; and our first duty 
 is to thank Ilim who has promised to be with His Church to 
 the end of the world, for His presence with us during our 
 consultations, and for the happy conclusion to which lie has 
 brought our sacred labors. 
 
 Seldom has any Council assembled in the Church of 
 Christ under circumstances needing His presence more 
 urgently than this which is now about to submit its 
 conclusions to the judgment of the Universal Church. 
 Forced by the providence of God to separate ourselves 
 from the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, 
 — ? Church with whose doctrine, discipline and worship 
 we are in entire harmon}-, and with whose action, up to the 
 time of that separation, we were abundantly satisiied — at 
 a moment when civil strife had dipped its foot in blood, 
 and cruel war was desolating our homes and firesides, we 
 required a double measure of grace to preserve the accus- 
 tomed moderation of the Church in the arrangement of our 
 organic law, in the adjustment of our code of canons, but 
 above all, iu the preservation, without change, of those rich 
 treasures of doctrine and worship wliicli have come to us 
 enshrined in our P>ook of Common Prayer. Cut off like- 
 
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wise from all communication with our sister Churches of 
 the world, we have been compelled to act without any in- 
 terchange of opinion even witii our Mother Church, and 
 alone and unaided to arrange for ourselves the organization 
 under which we should do our part in carrying on to their 
 consummation the purposes of God in Christ Jesus. We trust 
 that the Spirit of Christ has indeed so directed, sanctified 
 and governed us in our work, that we shall be approved by 
 all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity and 
 in truth, and who arc earnest in preparing the world for His 
 coming in glorious majesty to judge both the quick and 
 'ho dead. 
 
 The Constitution of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 
 the Confederate States, under which we have been exerci- 
 sing our legislative functions, is the same as that of the 
 Church from which we have been providentially separated, 
 save that we have introduced into it a germ of expansion 
 whi'.'li was wanting in the old constitution. This is found in 
 the permission wliicli is granted to existing Dioceses to form 
 themselves by subdivision into Provinces, and l)y this pro- 
 cess gradually to reduce our immense Pioceses into Episcopal 
 Soos, more like those vdiich, in primitive times, covered 
 the territories of the Koman Empire. It is at present but 
 a germ, and may lie, for many years, without expansion, 
 bui being there, it gives promise, in the future, of a more 
 close and constant' Episcopal supervision than is possible 
 under our [)rescnt arrangement. 
 
 The Canon law, which has been adopted during our pre- 
 sent session, is altogether in its spirit, and almost in its let- 
 ter, identical \vi"h tluit under v/hich we have liitherto pros- 
 pered. We have siniplitied it in some respects, and have 
 made it more clear and plain in many of its requirements ; but 
 no changes have been introduced whicli have altered either 
 i;s tone or character. It is the same moderate, just and equal 
 body of Ecclesiastical Law by which the Church has been 
 governed on this continent since her reception from the 
 Church of England of the treasures of an apostolic minis- 
 try and a liturgical form of worship. 
 
The Prayer Book we have loft untouched iu ever}' par- 
 ticular save where a eliange of our civil government and 
 the formation of a new nation have made alteration es^5en- 
 tially requisite. Three words comprise all the amendment 
 Avhich has been deemed necessary in the present emer- 
 gency, for we have felt unwilling, in the existing confusion 
 of aifairs, to lay rash hands upon a Book, consecrated by 
 the use of ages, and hallowed by associations the most sa- 
 cred and precious. We give you l>ack your Book of Com- 
 mon Trayer the same as you have entrusted it to us, be- 
 lieving that if it has slight defects, their removal had better 
 be the gradual work of experience than the hasty action of 
 a body convened almost upon the outskirts of a camp. 
 
 Besides this actual legislation which we now submit to 
 you, our assembling together has given us a view of the 
 condition of the Church throughout the Confederate States 
 which renders it our duty to speak to you as Chief Pastors 
 over the flock of Christ, reminding you of the peculiar en- 
 couragements which surround us, specifying the points to- 
 wards which our efforts, as a Christian Church, should be di- 
 rected, and pointing out the deiiciencies which require instant 
 correction and amendment. i*s'o moment seems so |tropitious 
 for the performance of this duty, as that in which wc are 
 beginning a new life in the Church, and are preparing to 
 stamp ourselves upon the world for good or for evil. 
 
 Our highest encouragement is deriveU from the fact that 
 we hold the sacred trust of the Faith once delivered to the 
 saints, and that Ave hold it in connexion with a ministry 
 whose succession from Christ and Ilis Apostles is undoubt- 
 ed, and with a form of worship simple and pure yet sublime 
 and scriptural. These are not gifts to make a boast of, ii: 
 to use for the glory of God and the advancement of Christ's 
 kingdom. Far from filling us Avith A-ain g ory, their pc^s- 
 session should humble us to the dust, unless avc iq-)provu 
 ourselves faithful stcAA'ards of nucli incstinuible treasures. 
 To AAdiom much has been committed, from him Avill mu(;]i 
 be required, and it remains for us to prove whether avc 
 
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 have deserved so spiritual an iiilieritance. But possessing 
 them, we may rightfully feel that we enter upon our war- 
 fare with the world, the flesh and the devil, having all the 
 strength that Divine Truth and a Divine Commission can 
 give us. We can press on without any douhts resting 
 upon our hearts as to the trutli which we are teaching, as 
 to the validity of the sacraments which we are administer- 
 ing, or as to the authority of the orders which we are trans- 
 mitting. Upon all these points we are secure, and we can 
 go forward offering to all men, with boldness and confi- 
 dence, the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and the fellow- 
 ship of tlie saints. Whatever hindrances we may meet, or 
 whatever contradiction of men we may encounter, we can 
 rest assured that truth will finally prevail, and that God 
 will set His Son upon His holy hill of Zion. 
 
 Our next source of encouragement is that we enter upon 
 our work with our Dioceses fully organized, and with the 
 means which Christ has instituted in His Church well dis- 
 tributed throughout the Confederate States. When we 
 remember the very different auspices under which the ven- 
 erated Fathers of the American Church began their work, 
 and mark how It has grown and prospered, we should in- 
 deed take courage and feel no fear for the future. In their 
 case all their ecclesiastical arrangements had to be organ- 
 ized ; in our case we find these arrangements all ready 
 to our hand, and with the seal of a happy experience 
 stamped upon them. In their case every prejudice of the 
 land was strong against them. In our case we go forward 
 with the leading minds of our new Republic cheering us 
 on ])y their communion with us, and with no prejudications 
 to overcome, save those which arise from a lack of acquaint- 
 ance with our doctrine and worship. In their case they 
 were indeed few and separated far from one another in 
 their work upon the walls of Zion. In our case we are 
 comparatively well compacted, extending in an unbroken 
 cliain of Dioceses from the Potomac to the confines of the 
 l\e[»nblic. Despite all these disadvantages, "the little one 
 
became :{i thousand and tlie small one a stronii' nation," and 
 shall -Nvc despond ? If we he watchful, and strengthen the 
 things that remain, our God will not forsake us, hut will 
 ''lengthen our cords and stretch forth the curtains of our 
 habitations." In visible token of this fact, we have already, 
 since our organization, added to the House of Bishops tlii3 
 Rt. Rev. Dr. Wilmer as Bishop of Alabama, and received 
 into communion with the (Miurch llie Diocese of Arkansas. 
 
 Another source of encouragement is that there has been 
 no division in I he Church in the Confederate States. Be- 
 lieving, with a wonderful unanimity, that the providence 
 of God had guided onr footsteps, and for His own inscruta- 
 ble purposes, had forced us into a separate organization, 
 there has been nothing to embarrass ns in the preliminary 
 movements which have condurti'il us \o our present jiosi- 
 tion. AVith one mind and with one heart we have entered 
 upon this blessed work, and w(^ stand together this day a 
 l)aml of bi'others, one in faith, one in ho[)e, one in charity. 
 There may be among us, as there always must be, minute 
 <liiterences of opinion and feeling, but there is nothing to 
 liinder our keeping the unity of the spirit in the lurnd of 
 peace. We are all satisfied that we are walking in the 
 patli of duty, and, that the light of God's countenance has 
 been wonderfully lifted up upon ns. He has comforted us 
 in our darkest hours, and has not i)ermitted our hearts to 
 faint in the da}^ of adversity. 
 
 These striking encouragements vouehsafed tc us Innu 
 the Father of our Lord .lesus Christ, shouhl ill] onr hearts 
 with earnest devotedness, and shcmhl lead ns even now to 
 in(piire, -'J^oid, what wdt thon !ia\-e n.s to do?" AimI the 
 answer to this question will lead us, your Ciiit i' Tasi'M--. 1o 
 specily the points towards which om-ellbrts, as a Christian 
 Cliurch, should he especially direded. 
 
 Christ has founded His Church upon love — for (\<.n\ is 
 Love. It is the highest of all Christian L'-races. '-And now 
 abideth Faith, Hope, Charity, these three, but the greatest 
 of these is Charity." Charity! not mere alms-giving. 
 
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 which is only one of its manifestations, but Love ! Christ- 
 ian Love ! As Christ our Lord loved the world so divinely 
 that he was satisfied to sufler all things for its redemption, 
 80 does He command us to love one another and to be ready 
 to do all things for each other's salvation. This was His 
 especial commandment: "A new commandment give I 
 unto yoUj^that ye love one another." And this is truly not 
 only the new commandment, but the summary of all the 
 commandments. The whole Gospel is redolent with it, 
 with a broad, comprehensive, all-embracing love, ap- 
 pointed, like Aaron's rod, to swallow up all the other 
 Christian graces, and to manifest the spiritual glory of God 
 in C^hrist. A Church without love ! What could you augur 
 of a Church of God without Faith, or a Church of Christ 
 without Hope? But Love is a higher grace than either 
 Faith or Hope, and its absence from a Church is just the 
 absence of the very life-blood from the body. 
 
 Our first duty, therefore, as the children of God, is to 
 send forth from this Council our greetings of love to the 
 Churches of God all the world over. We greet them in 
 Christ, and rejoice that they are partakers with us of all the 
 grace which is treasured up in Him. We lay down to-day 
 before the altar of the Crucified all our burdens of sin, and 
 offer our prayers for the Church Militant upon earth. What- 
 ever may be their aspect towards us politically, we cannot 
 forget that they rejoice with us " in the one Lord, the one 
 Faith, the one Baptism, the one God, and Father of all," and 
 we wish them Godspeed in all the sacred ministries of the 
 Church. iSTothing but love is consonant with the exhibition 
 of Christ's love which is manifested in His Church, and any 
 note of mtin's bitterness, except against sin, would be a sound 
 of discord mingling with the sweet harmonies of earth and 
 heaven. We rejoice in this golden chord which binds us to- 
 gether in Christ our Redeemer, and like the ladder which 
 Jacob saw in vision, with the angels of God ascending and de- 
 scending upon it, may it ever be the channel along which 
 sliall fiash the Christian greetings of the children of God. 
 
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 But while we send forth this love to the whole Church 
 militant upon earth, let us not forget that special love is 
 due hy ns towards those of our own household. To us have 
 been committed the treasures of the Church, and those of 
 our own kindred and lineage, who have sprung from our 
 loins both naturally and spiritually, who are now united 
 with us in a sacred conflict for the dearest rights of man, 
 ask us for the bread of life. They pray us for that which 
 we are commanded to give, the Gospel of the grace of God. 
 They put in no claim for any thing worldly — for any thing 
 alien from the mission of the Church. Their petition is 
 that we will fulfil the ver^^ purpose of our institution, and 
 give them the means of grace. Every claim which man 
 can have upon his fellow-man they have upon us, and hav- 
 ing these claims they ask only for the Church. They pray 
 us not to let them perish in the wilderness ; not to permit 
 them to be cut off from the sweet communion of the 
 Church. "If," says the Apostle, speaking of christian pro- 
 fessors, and alluding to mere earthly things, " any provide 
 not for his own, and especially for them of his own House, 
 he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel ;" 
 what shall we say of that Church which shall not provide 
 for its own children ? How can it hope to be watered itself 
 with gracious rain from Heaven, when it hoards up for itself 
 the river of life, which is ordained to flow through its 
 channels of grace ? 
 
 Many of the States of this (Confederacy are Missionary 
 ground. The population is sparse and scattered ; the child- 
 ren of the Church are few and far between ; the Priests of 
 the Lord can reach them only after great labor and priva- 
 tion. Hitherto has their scanty subsistence been eked out 
 from the common treasury of our united Church. Cut oft" 
 from that recourse by our political action, in which they 
 have heartily acquiesced, they turn to us and pray us to do, 
 at least as much for them, as we have been accustomed to 
 do for the Church from which they have been separated by a 
 civil necessity. "We can do what they ask, and we ought 
 
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 cheerfully to do it. Unless we take care that the Gospel 
 is sent to these isolated children of the Church, who will 
 heed their cry ? They have no Church to cry to, but the 
 Church which w^e now represent, and the}' cast themselves 
 upon us in full faith, that we will do our whole duty towards 
 them. They are one with us in faith, in care, in suffering; 
 they arc bearing like evils with those wliich disturb us, and 
 they have no worship to cheer and support them, no Gos- 
 pel to preach to them patience and long-suffering. For 
 Christ's sake they pra}' that they may be given at least a 
 Mother's bosom to die upon. 
 
 Voices of supplication come to us also from the distant 
 shores of Africa and the East, but ordy their echo reaches 
 us from the throne of grace. The policy of man has sliut 
 out those utterances from us. How it can help their cause 
 to separate the children of God from one another. He oidy 
 knows, but we can hear them when we kneel in prayer, and 
 commune with their Spirits through the Spirit of Clirist. 
 But God is perchance intending, through these inscrutable 
 measures, to shut us up to that great work wdiich He has 
 placed at our very doors, and which is, next to her own ex- 
 pansion, the Church's greatest work in these Confederate 
 States. The religious instruction of the negroes has been 
 thrust upon us in such a wonderful manner that we must 
 be blind not to perceive that not only our spiritual but our 
 national life is wrapped up in their welfare. "With them Ave 
 stand or fiiU, and God will not permit us to be separated in 
 interest or in fortune. 
 
 The time has come when the Church should press more 
 urgently than she has hitherto done upon her laity, ilie 
 solemn fact, that the slaves of the South are not merely so 
 much property, l)ut are a sacred trust committed to us, as a 
 people, to 1)6 prepared for the work which God may have 
 for them to do, in the future. While under this tutelage 
 He freely gives to us their labor, but expects us to give back 
 to them that religious and moral instruction which is to 
 
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 elevate tlieiii in the scale of lieinij;;. Aiul while iucul- 
 eatiiig tliis truth, the (/hurch must oifcr more freely 
 her ministrations for their henetit and improvement. 
 Her hiity must set tlie example of readiness to fulfil 
 their duty towards these people, and her elergy must 
 strip themselves of pride and fastidiousness and indolence, 
 and rush, with the zeal of martyrs, to this labor of love. 
 The teaehinii;s of the rhui'oh ai"e those which best suit a 
 people passing from ignorance to civilization, because vt^hile 
 it represses all fanaticism, it fastens upon the memory the 
 great facts of our religion, and through its objective w^orship 
 attracts and enchains them. So far from relaxing, in their 
 case, the forms of the Church, good will be permanently 
 done to them just in [troportion as we teach them through 
 their senses and their affections. If subjected to? the teach- 
 ings of a bald spiritualism, they Avill find food for their 
 senses and their child-like fancies in superstitious observan- 
 ces of their own, leading too often to crime and licentious- 
 ness. 
 
 It is likewise the duty of the Church to press upon the 
 masters of the country their obligation, as Christian men, so 
 to arrange this institution as not to necessitate the violation 
 of those sacred relations -which God has created and which 
 man cannot, consistently with Christian duty, annul. The 
 systems of labor which prevail in Europe and wdiicli are, in 
 many respects, more severe than ours, are so arranged as 
 to prevent all necessity for the separation of parents and 
 children and of husbands and wives, and a very little care 
 upon our part, Avonld rid the system u[)on wliicli we are 
 about to plant our national life, of these unchristian features. 
 It belongs, especially, to the 1^4)iscopal Cliurch to urge a 
 proper teaching upon this subject, for in \\ov f )1(1 and in her 
 congregations are found a very large proportion of the great 
 slaveholders of the country. "We rejoice to be enabled to 
 say that the public sentiment is rapidly becoming sound 
 upon this subject, and that the Legislatures of several of 
 the Confederate States Inue already taken steps towards 
 
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 this consummation. Hitherto have we been hindered by 
 the pressure of abolitionism; now that w^e have thrown off 
 from us that hateful and infidel pestilence, we should prove 
 to the world that we are faithful to our trust and the Church 
 should lead the hosts of the Lord in this work of justice and 
 of mercv. 
 
 Another duty, which, for the present, devolves upon 
 the Church, is an oversight of the children of God, as they 
 lie without religion and without Christian care in the camps 
 and hospitals of our Government. Far be it from us to say 
 that there has been no Christian supervision of our soldiers, 
 and we cheerfully concede all praise and thanks to those 
 w^ho have done their duty through danger and privation ; 
 but we must affirm that there is still a great lack of service 
 on the Church's part in this connexion. From whatever 
 cause it has arisen, whether from the scarcity of clergymen, 
 or from unwillingness to bear the hardships of the soldiers' 
 life, we are obliged to acknowledge that we have been una- 
 ble to find men who were willing to answer this call and to 
 take their places, not as soldiers fighting for their country, 
 but as soldiers fighting for the victory of Christ over sin and 
 death. In the opinion of the House of Bishops, no position 
 is more suited, at this moment, to the true spirit of Christ 
 and His Church, than that of a faithful minister of the grace 
 of God and of the Sacraments of the Church to the soldiers 
 in the field, or in the hospital ; and we would urge it upon 
 those ministers who have been exiled from their parishes, to 
 enter upon this work as their present duty, trusting for 
 support to Him who has said, "I will never leave thee nor 
 forsake thee." 
 
 The most striking deficiency in the Church's work which 
 we perceive in looking at the Church's life, is a lack of zeal 
 in spreading the influences of the Church through her ser- 
 vices and Sacraments. Our ministry has become too local 
 and sedentary, too well satisfied to git down and do tht 
 work which it has undertaken to do, and overlooking the 
 
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 fields white for the harvest which are spread out all around 
 them, and which cannot be cultivated save through their 
 agency. Every well established congregation should con- 
 sider itself as a centre of ^Missionary work, and should 
 encourage its pastor to extend his usefulness beyond its own 
 limits, and while he is a Priest to them, to be, in some mea- 
 sure a Missionary to all about him. As long as the selfish 
 idea is indulged, that a minister is tied down to a local con- 
 gregation and has no business to work around him, the 
 Church must languish or increase but slowly. Missionaries 
 cannot be furnished for every village and neighborhood, and 
 they must remain uncared for by the Church, unless the 
 settled clergy will make up their minds to extendi the sphere 
 of their operations beyond the narrow limits of their own 
 immediate cures. 
 
 ^ Another deficiency which requires amendment, is the 
 little spiritual intercourse which takes place among the 
 Clergy in their work for the Church. Each man works in 
 his sphere, but for the most part he gives nothing to his 
 brotlicr clergyman, and receives nothing from him in 
 return. When our Lord sent forth his Apostles, He sent 
 them two by two for the evident purpose that they should 
 support, strengthen and comfort each other. The spirit of 
 this action is very much overlooked in the Church, and the 
 Clergy are weakened by it. While the House of Bishops 
 would iiot specify any mode by which this defect should be 
 remedied, it would recommend to the Clergy a more free, 
 spiritual intercourse, a more frequent interchange of clerical 
 services, greater communion in prayer and "in counsel. 
 Many a despondent heart would thus be cheered, and many 
 a weak brother would be comforted and strengthened. 
 ^ Another deficiency which requires amendment, is the 
 Httle spiritual help which is given to the Clergy by tlie 
 Laity. We have no reference now to the temporal support 
 of the Clergy, although we might well dwell upon that, but 
 to the spiritual help which a Christian Laity might give to 
 the energy. In reading the Acts of the Apostles, we find 
 
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 many illustrations of this truth, and we perceive how the 
 greatest of the Apostles was not above the help of his yoke- 
 fellows in the Gospel. There are many ways in which 
 spititual and earnest Laymen can help their Clergy in the 
 work of the Church, and under their guidance and direc- 
 tion, can become valuable Missionaries of Christ, even 
 while unordained. It requires sacrifice and self-denial, 
 but we must all remember that we are not our own, but 
 are bought with a price, and belong to Christ, body, soul 
 and spirit. 
 
 But over and above all these special deficiencies, looms 
 up that greatest of all deficiencies, the lack of the Holy 
 Spirit in and with our Churches. Because of the degree to 
 which spiritual influences have been abused in our land, we 
 hav^ been tempted to run into the other extrenie, and to 
 forget that we are living under what the Apostle calls the 
 dispensation of the Spn^it, and that the Church's work must 
 derive all its power from His presence. Our danger is to 
 merge the Holy Ghost into the means of grace, and over- 
 look the important fact that He is a personal agent, acting in- 
 deed through those means, but not necessarily tied to them. 
 Our Saviour said : ''The wind bloweth where it listeth, and 
 thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence 
 it Cometh or whither it goeth, so is every one that is born of 
 the Spirit." And as with the individual, so with the 
 Church. The Holy Spirit will be in the Church, if His 
 presence is kept there by an acknowledgement of His power, 
 by a sense of His necessity, by a constant prayer for His pre- 
 sence ; but the addresses to the Churches in Asia Minor 
 instruct us to be watcliful over ourselves, and to hold fast 
 by Him, who is the representative of Christ upon earth, 
 while He is interceding and advocating for us in Heaven. 
 Let the Church and her Ministers always bear in mind, 
 that the growth of the Church, and the vitality of the 
 Church are "not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit," 
 saith the Lord. 
 
 And now it only remains for us to bid you, one and all, 
 
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 ail aftectionatc farewell. We cauuot but remember that 
 when we last separated from you, there stood among us two 
 venerated brethren, dearly beloved m the Lord, who have 
 since entered into their rest. When we parted we knew it 
 must be so, but we could not foresee where the hand of 
 Death would falL And now again we know, that separa- 
 ting once more for the like space of time, we shall not all 
 meet again. Whose shall be the summons ?. Well for ns 
 that the curtain of God's providence hides this knowledge 
 from us, teaching us the lesson of Christian truth, that we 
 must all watch and be sober, because we know neither the 
 day nor the hour when the Son of Man cometh. May God's 
 gracious Providence guide you in satety to your homes, and 
 preserve them from the desolations of war. And should 
 we n(^t lie permitted to battle together any more for Christ 
 in the Church militant, may we be deemed worthy to be 
 members of the (Miureh triumphant, where with prophets, 
 apostles, martyrs, saints and angels, we may ascribe honor 
 and glory, dominion and praise to Him that sitteth upon 
 the Throne, and to the Lamb, forever! 
 
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