BIB_ID
346701
Accession number
MA 366.38
Creator
Brownell, Thomas Church, 1779-1865.
Display Date
1825 Oct. 1.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.3 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark to " The Rt. Rev. / John S. Ravenscroft / Raleigh / N. Carolina."
Docketed on verso.
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.
Rev. Ravenscroft was the first Bishop of North Carolina.
Docketed on verso.
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.
Rev. Ravenscroft was the first Bishop of North Carolina.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Acknowledging receipt of a manuscript which he has passed along to a friend in New York; expressing his pleasure that they seem to agree on so many matters pertaining to the Church; saying that "men's zeal often outstrips their discretions. The mere printing of Bibles and throwing them profusely into an ignorant community is probably not the most judicious way of promoting true Christian knowledge. There are very many important considerations connected with the establishment of the national Bible Society. One which has not yet attracted much attention, which I think has already been productive of very pernicious effects, and which I fear will lead to still more unhappy consequences, is the principle, which though it is not expressly recognized, is certainly countenanced, that it is immaterial to what denomination of christians we belong.... There is a wide difference between latitudinarianism and true liberality; relating the success of the College [Trinity College] and encouraging him to recommend the College to his friends.
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