The Law of Ritualism, EXAMINED IN ITS RELATION TO THE Word of God, TO THE Primitive Church, TO THE Church of England, AND TO THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL Church in the United States. BY THE RT. REV. JOHN HENRY HOPKINS, D. D., LL. D., BISHOP OF VERMONT. In necessariis unitas ; in non necessariis libertas; in omnibus NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY HURD AND HOUGHTON, 459 BROOME STREET. 1866. KD875 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY SHELDON FUND Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by JOHN HENRY HOPKINS, JR., M. A., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. To the RT. REV. THE BISHOP OF VERMONT, Presiding Bishop of the Church in the United States. RT. REV. FATHER: As the question of Ritualism is extensively agitating the Church of England, and has already begun to make itself felt in our own Church, it would give us, and many others, pleasure to know your views of the subject in full: especially as to whether an increase of Ritualism would be advisable among us, or whether the ordinary average of present parochial practice would best carry forward the great work of the Church in such a country as ours. We are, Rt. Rev. Father, Your obedient servants, and MORGAN DIX, J. I. TUCKER, J. FREEMAN YOUNG, P. K. CADY, WM. CROSWELL DOANE, C. W. MORRILL, McW. B. NOYES, ROBT. B. MINTURN, JOS. SANDS, WILLIAM A. CONSTANT, JOHN ABURTUS, JOS. P. PIRSSON, JOHN F. MILLER, CHARLES CONGDON, FRANCIS MANY. |