I. THE CHURCH IN GEORGIA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION- THE WESLEYS AND WHITFIELD IN GEORGIA, III. THE NATIONAL CHURCH AND THE DIOCESE-A REJOINDER, IV. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF CLERICAL MEMBERS OF THE V. MONASTICISM AND MONASTIC VOWS, VII. FORMS OF PRAYER FOR CIVIL RULERS, . 171 . 193 CONTRIBUTORS TO VOLUME XLVI. THE RIGHT Reverend WilLIAM BACON STEVENS, D.D., LL.D., The Rev. William Jones Seabury, D.D., THE REV. CLEMENT M. BUTLER, D.D., THE REV. WALTER MITCHELL, A.M., • 483 • 501 THE REV. JOSEPH A. GILFILLAN, A.M., THE REV. FRANCIS D. HOSKINS, A.M., -THE CHURCH REVIEW Vol. XLVI.-No. CLVIII JULY, 1885 THE CHURCH IN GEORGIA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION - - THE WESLEYS WHITFIELD IN GEORGIA. THE AND HE proposition of General Oglethorpe and others to found a new colony in America to be at once an asylum for the persecuted, and a home for the impoverished, was eagerly taken up in England, and called out much sympathy from the Parliament and the people. Among the original twenty-one noblemen and gentlemen who constituted the first Board of Trustees, nearly a fourth were clergymen, and four others were afterward added. More than a hundred clergymen received, at their own request, commissions to take up collections in behalf of so philanthropic a design. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishops, Deans, Archdeacons, Cathedral chapters, and Collegiate officers, contributed to its sup port. The first emigrants to Georgia sailed in the ship ER THEOL. 15 Ann, on November 17, 1732, and consisted of one hundred and twenty-five "sober, industrious, and moral persons." General Oglethorpe came over with them, and also the Rev. Henry Herbert, D.D., who volunteered his services as missionary, until the emigrants should be settled in their American home. Dr. Herbert remained with the colony three months, and then sailed for England, having seen his people safely across the Atlantic, and happily planted on the banks of the Savannah River. He died on his homeward passage, and the body of the first clergyman who ministered in Georgia sleeps in its ocean grave. At a meeting of the Trustees following the first embarkation, they ordered a memorial to be drawn up and presented to the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts, setting forth that they had appointed a site for a church, and a sufficient glebe for a minister, and desiring the society to make an allowance for the missionary and the usual benefaction of books and furniture. This was granted, and on December 21, 1732, the Rev. Samuel Quincy, M.A., was appointed missionary to Savannah, Ga. Mr. Quincy was a native of Boston, a graduate of Harvard College, and one of a family distinguished in politics and literature. He was ordained Deacon and Priest in 1730, by the Lord Bishop of Carlisle. He sailed for Georgia in March, 1733, and reached Savannah the following May. There was then no church building, and Divine Service was held in a hut of split boards thirty feet long and twelve wide, used alike for a church and a court-house. Just before Mr. Quincy embarked for Georgia, Lady Osborn had sent the Trustees £50 toward building a church. Later the Rev. Samuel Wesley, the elder brother of John Wesley, had, in behalf of an unknown benefactor, given a silver chalice and paten for the use of the church in Savannah, and Mr. John Tuckwell had given a large church clock. Hundreds of Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and other religious books had been sent over |