The Colonial Church Chronicle Missionary Journal And Foreign Ecclesiastical Reporter 1864 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from The Colonial Church Chronicle, Missionary Journal, and Foreign Ecclesiastical Reporter, 1864 We call the special attention of all who are interested in the Church problem in Liberia to this article in the Colonial Church Chronicle. There are some errors in it, however, which we feel bound to correct. It is an error to suppose that the American Church has laid down any general principle that civil independence includes, ipso facto, ecclesias tical independence. This is just the mistake our Southern brethren have made. The Preface of our prayer-book merely asserts what was a fact in our own case, but without any general statement applying to any case besides our own. Moreover, though the American Colonies were a part of the British dominions, Liberia has never been at any time a portion of these United States, nor a part of any territory thereof. Its ecclesiastical dependence on us has not been because it was dependent on the Govern ment of the United States as to civil affairs. If it has any right to be an independent National Church, therefore, that right has been complete from the first establishment of that republic. 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.