9. NEW JERSEY. The first missionary to this colony was Rev. John Talbot, who was stationed here in 1705. He had previously traversed a considerable part of the province in company with Rev. George Keith. In 1723 he went to England, and while there, in conformity with the wishes of many of the clergy, was consecrated bishop for the American colonies, by the non-juring bishops of Scotland. But he died soon after his return to this country. In 1752 the number of parishes was sixteen, of clergy eight; in 1770 the clergy were ten, in 1792 only nine; in 1844 the parishes were forty-six, clergy fifty. I who had been educated in other forms of faith, but came into the church through conviction of truth and duty. The first is about 1707. In 1708 a parish was trace of any Episcopalians in this colony formed, composed mostly of Englishmen, But he died before entering upon his duand Rev. Muirson appointed missionary. until 1721, when Rev. Mr. Pigott was ties, and no clergyman was settled there sent. While there, Rev. Samuel Johnson, a Congregational Minister in West Haven, formed his acquaintance, and thus strengthened the predilections he had formed for the church some years before, from the study of the Prayer Book. These circlaims of both bodies, in which the books cumstances induced him to examine the given by bishop Berkley to Yale College aided very materially. The result was, that Mr. Johnson himself, together with Mr. Cutter, president of the college, Mr. Daniel Brown, a native of West Haven, and a tutor in the college; Mr. Wetmore, a Congregational Minister in North Haven, for Orders. The discussions to which resigned their places and went to England these facts gave rise, resulted in bringing the following persons into the ministry of the church, who had been either ministers, or candidates for the ministry among the Congregationalists. 1. Rev. Samuel Johnson, West Haven, 1723. 2. Rev. Timothy Cutter, President Yale College, 1723. 3. Rev. David Brown, Tutor, Yale College, 1723. 4. Rev. James Wetmore, North Haven, 1723. 5. Rev. Samuel Seabury, Groton, 1732. 6. Rev. Jonathan Arnold, West Haven, 1730. 7. Mr. Henry Caner, New Haven, 1727. 8. Mr. Isaac Brown, West Haven, 14. Mr. Richard Mansfield, New Haven, | Common Prayer; and to them we owe it, 1748. that no portion of that Catholic truth, which has come down from the earliest ages, has been erased from that book. 15. Mr. Jeremiah Leaming, Middletown, 1748. 16. Mr. Thomas Badbury Chandler, Woodstock, 1751. 17. Mr. Ichabod Camp, Middletown, 1751. Bishops, S: Seabury, Such an influx of native citizens into the ministry of the church, a majority of whom had been ministers among the Con- A. Jarvis, gregationalists, and nearly all of whom remained in their native state, gave the church an impulse that nothing else could impart, as may be seen by the following statistics. The same causes which gave the church an impulse in this Diocese, also gave it unity of sentiment, and the leading features stamped upon the first churchmen of this colony by its learned and laborious clergy remain to this day. And so universal has been its influence, that no such thing as a party has ever been known in the church in this Diocese; and the epithets of high and low church, by which parties are often described, have never been known here, except as matters of history. Brought into the church through conviction of duty, the clergy and laity of this Diocese have ever remained true to it, as a matter of principle. Consequently, when the proposition was made at the South near the close of the revolution, to adopt a provisional organization without the Episcopacy, the clergy of Connecticut not only refused to join in it, but at the very earliest possible moment, elected a bishop and sent him to England for consecration, as has already been related. And it is in no small degree owing to the learning and faithfulness of Bishop Seabury and his clergy, that serious innovations were not made in the book of S. Provoost. May 3, 1813. T. C. Brownell. Oct, 27, 1819. J. H. Hobart Diocesan Institutions. 1. Society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1816. 2. Church Scholarship Society, 1827. 3. Society to provide for the wants of aged and infirm Clergymen, 1846. 4. Episcopal Academy, Cheshire, 1794. 5. Trinity College, Hartford, 1823. 11. GEORGIA. The first missionary to this colony was Rev. John Wesley, afterwards the celebrated founder of Methodism. He returned to England in 1738, and was succeeded by Rev. George Whitfield, the other father of the Methodist Societies. The Church of England was established in Georgia, at an early period, but so late as 1769, there were but two churches in the colony. It was first admitted into union with the General Convention in 1820, when there were but four parishes. In 1844, the parishes were seventeen, clergy twenty. i 1 Diocesan Institutions. 1. Episcopal Missionary Board, 1827. 2. Sunday School Board, 1827. 14. MAINE. There has been one congregation in this Diocese from an early period; but the church did not receive a distinct organiza. tion until 1820, when the state had been separated from Massachusetts, and erected into a distinct jurisdiction. The parishes ships. These lands, however, were seized and confiscated by the civil authorities, and not recovered to the use of the church until from 1820 to 1830. About 1794, some of the Episcopalians of Vermont elected Rev. Samuel Peters, then in England, Bishop of that Diocese. He applied to the English Bishops for consecration, who declined, on the ground that there were a canonical number of Bishops in America, to whom application should be made. Accordingly in 1795, the subject was brought before the General Convention, but the church in Vermont, not hav-in 1844, were six, clergy eight. It has ing been duly organized, and not having been received into union with the convention, and there being but one clergyman in the state, the consecration was refused. It was received into union with the General Convention in 1811, but so late as 1814, there was but a single clergyman in the Diocese. In 1844, the parishes were thirty-three, clergy twenty-two. 13. NEW HAMPSHIRE. A church was established and well endowed at Portsmouth, about 1640, but the puritans drove off the minister and seized the lands belonging to the church, and it was long before any other congregation was gathered. In 1764, the church was endowed in various towns throughout the colony by Governor Wentworth. But as late as 1772, there were only three parishes, and two clergymen in the province. These lands have been most of them seized and confiscated. In 1844, the parishes were fourteen, the clergy eleven. been under the provisional supervision of never yet had a Bishop by itself, but has the Bishop of some other Diocese. It has a board of missions, organized in 1842, for domestic missionary purposes. 15. OHIO. The church in this Diocese was first organized in 1818, and admitted into union with the General Convention, in 1820. In 1844 it had seventy-eight parishes, fiftyseven clergy. Rev. Cicero Stephens Hawks, consecrated | Philander Chase, William R. Whitting- Beside these, there are belonging to the Protestant Episcopal Church, the Missionary Diocese of Wisconsin, Iowa, and the North Western Territory, having in 1844, fifteen clergy, under the charge of Right Rev. Jackson Kemper; and the Diocese of Arkansas and Texas, with six clergy in 1844, under the charge of Right Rev. George Washington Freeman, consecrated October 26, 1844, by Right Rev. Bishops Philander Chase, Jackson Kemper, Leonidas Polk, and Alfred Lee. Also Right Rev. William Jones Boone, Bishop of Amoy, China, consecrated October 20, 1844, by Right Rev. Bishops Philander Chase, William Meade, Levi Silliman Ives, George W. Doane, and James Hervey Otey; and Right Rev. Horatio Southgate, Bishop of Constantinople, consecrated October 26, 1844, by Right Rev. Bishops In addition to the Diocesan Institutions already described, there are the following General Institutions established by the General Convention : 1. The General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, New York City, established 1817. 2. Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, of the General Convention, 1820; re-organized 1835, upon the principle, that the Church is the great Missionary Society of the world, and every baptized christian a member of it. (1) Domestic Department, 1846, two Missionary Bishops, and one hundred and five missionaries. (2) Foreign Department, 1846, two Missionary Bishops, thirteen missionaries, and twenty-two assistants. 3. General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union, 1826. HISTORY OF THE EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION. BY REV. W. W. ORWIG, AND IMPROVED BY REV. A. ETTINGER, THIS Christian denomination took its | awakening influences of God's Holy Spirit, rise about the year 1800, in one of the middle free States of Anerica; at first they were called the A'brights, (Albrechtsleute,) probably on account of Jacob Albright having been, by the grace of God, the instrument of their solemnly uniting themselves for the service of Almighty God. About the year, 1790, Jacob Albright became the happy subject of the and was brought to the knowledge of his sinful state and of the truth; and after a long and very severe struggle, he received at last, by faith in the Son of God, the remission of his sins and the spirit of adoption. In this state he spent several years in the service of God; and, at the request of his fellow-Christians, he at sundry times. spake publicly a word of exhortation, |