BIB_ID
346635
Accession number
MA 366.24
Creator
Chase, Philander, 1775-1852.
Display Date
1851 Jan. 10.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.3 cm
Notes
Part of a 12-volume collection of Autographs and Manuscripts of Bishops of The Protestant Episcopal Church (MA 364-375). The arrangement of the collection is by Bishops in the order of their consecration and chronological within their portion of the collection. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Concerning an address he received from the Bishop of Maryland [William Rollingson Whittingham] to the Prelates of England requesting his signature; with respect to the church he England he says that for "whatever may be the desire to separate 'Church & state'--now of all times it is inexpedient to urge it, for reasons too obvious to need mentioning. If it were not for the civil Government of England where would be the Church of England?--It would be the Pope's Church in England without a Bible & worshiping a Made God;" discussing the Bishop of Maryland's position and expressing his disagreement with it; saying he will not be signing the address to the British Prelates.
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