CONFERENCE is Made at a Meeting of the Clergy to RE-ESTABLISH THE
CORPORATION FOR THE RELIEF OF THE WIDOWS AND CHILDREN OF THE
CLERGY, FOUNDED, 1769-ECCLESIASTICAL CONVENTION OF PENNSYLVANIA,
MAY 25TH, 1784-DECLARATION BY IT OF PRINCIPLES-ECCLESIASTICAL
CONVENTION OF MARYLAND, JUNE 22D, 1784-DR. SMITH'S SERMON AT IT-
DECLARATION BY IT OF PRINciples SufficIENTLY HARMONIOUS WITH THOSE
OF THE PENNSYLVANIA CONVENTION-CONVENTION OF SEVERAL STATES IN
NEW YORK, OCTOBER 6TH, 1784-DR. SMITH PRESIDES-FUNDAMENTAL
PRINCIPLES DECLARED BY IT, AND PROCEEDINGS END-DR. SMITH CHAIR-
MAN OF COMMITTEE TO FRAME AN ECCLESIASTICAL CONSTITUTION AND TO
FRAME AND PROPOSE A PROPER SUBSTITUTE FOR THE STATE PRAYERS-DR.
SMITH ELECTED PRESIDENT of the CORPORATION FOR THE RELIEF OF THE
WIDOWS, ETC.......
CONVENTION OF THE CHURCH IN SEVEN STATES, Held A. d. 1785, AT CHRIST
CHURCH IN PHILADELPHIA-DR. SMITH CHAIRMAN OF A COMMITTEE TO
MAKE A REVIEW OF AND FURTHER ALTERATIONS, WITH ADDITIONS TO THE
LITURGY THE THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES PRESENTED IN A CONDENSED
FORM THE ALTERATIONS, ADDITIONS AND CONDENSATION ADOPTED BY
THE CONVENTION-THE WHOLE ORDERED TO BE PRINTED IN A BOOK-
THE PROPOSED BOOK-DR. SMITH REQUESTED TO PREACH A SERMON AT
THE CLOSE OF THE CONVENTION SUITED TO THE SOLEMN OCCASION-HE
DOES SO-EXTRACTS FROM THE Sermon-Dr. White, DR. SMITH AND THE
Rev. MR. C. H. WHARTON, AT THIS TIME OF NEW CASTLE, DELAWARE,
BUT BETTER KNOWN AFTERWARDS AS DR. WHARTON, OF BURLINGTON, NEW
JERSEY, APPOINTED A COMMITTEE TO SEE THE PROPOSED BOOK THROUGH
THE PRESS..
THE CONVENTION of 1789, a greAT ECCLESIASTICAL COUNCIL-DR. SMITH IS
CALLED ON UNEXPECTEDLY TO PREACH ON ITS OPENING, AND SOON AFTER.
WARDS ON THE SUDDEN DEATH OF DR. Griffith, Bishop-elect of Vir-
GINIA A MEMOIR OF DR. GRIFFITH-THE CONVENTION DELICATELY SITU-
ATED IN REGARD TO BISHOP SEABURY-BISHOP PROVOOST'S SOMEWHAT
ECCENTRIC COURSE IN REGARD TO THIS EMINENT AND PIOUS PRELATE-
DIGNIFIED COURSE OF BISHOP SEABURY-DR. SMITH, ALONG WITH BISHOP
WHITE, ACCOMMODATE MATTERS BETWEEN BISHOP SEABURY AND THE
CONVENTION-THE VALIDITY OF BISHOP SEABURY'S EPISCOPal Orders, on
MOTION OF DR. SMITH, FULLY RECOGNIZED BY THE CONVENTION-THE
CONVENTION TEMPORARILY ADJOURNS IN ORDER TO GIVE TIME FOR FURTHER
CONSULTATION—CorresponDENCE BETWEEN DR. SMITH AND BISHOP SEA-
BURY THE LATTER, WITH REPRESENTATIVES FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE AND
MAINE, COMES INTO THE ADJOURNED CONVENTION-A GENERAL UNION
EFFECTED A. D. 1789, IN PHILADELPHIA, IN THE SAME ROOM IN THE STATE
RESTORATION BY THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA OF THE CHARTER OF THE
COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA, UNJUSTLY TAKEN AWAY IN 1779-AN ANEC-
DOTE ILLUSTRATIVE OF DR. SMITH'S READY HUMOR-HE TAKES LEAVE
OF THE CONVENTION IN MARYLAND-BISHOP WHITE'S TRIBUTE TO HIS
SERVICES TO THE CHURCH AND OTHERWISE IN THAT STATE-DR. WROTH'S
ACCOUNT OF WASHINGTON COLLEGE-DR. SMITH'S RETURN TO PHILADEL-
PHIA, JULY IST, 1789-PROPOSED INSCRIPTION UPON HIS COLLEGE-Pro-
CEEDINGS IN THE DIFFERENT BRANCHES OF THE RECONSTRUCTION-FIRST
COMMENCEMENTS, MEDICAL, AND IN THE DEPARTMENTS OF ARTS, SINCE
THE RESTORATION-UNION OF THE COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA WITH THE
UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA UNDER THE NAME OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA-THE REV. JOHN EWING ELECTED PROVOST
-THE NEW INSTITUTION LANGUISHED AND CONTINUED TO LANGUISH FOR
MANY YEARS, AND UNTIL THE PROVOSTSHIP OF DR. STILLE-DR. SMITH
PREACHES BEFORE THE CINCINNATI, JULY 4TH, 1790-ENGAGEMENT AND
MARRIAGE OF HIS SON CHARLES WITH MISS YEATES-DEATH OF HIS
DAUGHTER, MRS. GOLDSBOROUGH BEAUTIFUL INSCRIPTION ON HER TOMB
-LETTERS IN CONNECTION WITH HER DEATH...
THE CONVENTION OF 1789, A GREAT ECCLESIASTICAL COUNCIL-DR. SMITH IS
CALLED ON UNEXPECTEDLY TO PREACH ON ITS OPENING, AND SOON AFTER-
WARDS ON The sudden DEATH OF DR. GRIFFITH, BISHOP ELECT OF VIR-
GINIA-A MEMOIR OF DR. GRIFFITH-THE CONVENTION DELICATEL Y SITU-
ATED IN REGARD TO BISHOP SEABURY-BISHOP PROVOOST'S SOMEWHAT
ECCENTRIC COURSE IN REGARD TO THIS FMINENT AND PIOUS PRELATE-
DIGNIFIED COURSE OF BISHOP SEABURY-DR. SMITH, ALONG WITH BISHOP
WHITE, ACCOMMODATE MATTERS BETWEEN BISHOP SEABURY AND THE
CONVENTION-THE VALIDITY OF BISHOP SFABURY'S EPISCopal Orders, ON
MOTION OF DR. SMITH, FULLY RECOGNIZED BY THE CONVENTION-THE
CONVENTION TEMPORARILY ADJOURNS IN ORDER TO GIVE TIME FOR FURTHER
CONSULTATION-CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN DR. SMITH AND BISHOP SEA-
BURY-THE LATTER, WITH REPRESENTATIVES FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE AND
MAINE, COMES INTO THE ADJOURNED CONVENTION-A GENERAL UNION
EFFECTED A. D. 1789, IN PHILADELPHIA, IN THE SAME ROOM IN THE STATE
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