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A VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS

BEING A PLEA FOR THE RESTORATION OF

PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY

ADDRESSED TO THE

BISHOPS OF THE ANGLO-AMERICAN COMMUNION

AND THROUGH THEM TO THE

English-speaking People Throughout the World

 

BY

ALGERNON SIDNEY CRAPSEY

Rector of S. Andrew's Church
ROCHESTER, NEW YORK

 

 

NEW YORK:

JAMES POTTS & CO.

1897

  


Letter Dedicatory

Book First: An Interpretation of the Quadrilateral

A Scheme for the Reunion of the Church Offered by the Bishops of the Anglo-American Episcopate to the Various Communions of Christendom, Being A Lecture Delivered Before the Connecticut Church Club in Trinity Church, New Haven, February 17, 1897.

Chapter I. The Problem of the Church

Chapter II. The Voice of God

Chapter III. The Faithful in Christ Jesus

Chapter IV. The Power of Holiness

Chapter V. The Strength of Brotherhood

Book Second: The Office and Work of a Bishop in the Church of God

Being an Argument for the Division of the Diocese of Western New York, Addressed to the Right Reverend William David Walker, D.D., LL.D., D.C.L., Bishop of Said Diocese, and Here Published and Addressed to the Church Throughout the World as a Plea for the Restoration of the Primitive Episcopate.

Introduction

Chapter I. Argument from Expediency

Chapter II. The Origin of the Episcopal Office

Chapter III. The History of the Episcopate

Chapter IV. The Duty of Oversight

Chapter V. The Power of Personal Influence

Chapter VI. The Center of Unity

Chapter VII. The American Episcopate

Chapter VIII. Pastor Pastorum

Chapter IX. Endowment

Chapter X. The Practical Plan

Conclusion


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