Missionary from "the Protestant Episcopal Society for the Advancement of Christianity in So. Ca." The seeds which he sowed, though slow in growth, we trust are still alive, and will, in due season, yield their fruit. Arrangements are making for building a Church.

Sect. 5. Trinity Church, Columbia.

Columbia was founded by Act of Assembly 1786, and established as the seat of government of the State. In 1812, the Protestant Episcopal Society sent the Rev. Mr. Fowler as their Missionary to this town. He arrived there July 16, and by the 5th Oct. "he had collected a considerable congregation, composed of very respectable members of the community, who appeared to attend public worship with great devotion, and seemed to be zealous that all things should be done decently and in order."* Mr. Fowler was greatly aided, by the active co-operation of some zealous and respectable individuals, through whose influence a congregation was collected. In 1814, a neat and commodious Church was built of wood, by the liberality of several persons, in various parts of the State, and was consecrated by the late Bishop Dehon. The Rev. Mr. Lance, while preparing for the Ministry, officiated in this Church, as a Lay-Reader under the license of the Bishop, and was supported by an appropriation of the Society.

Gen. Wade Hampton generously made the Church a donation of an Organ, and upwards of $2000. The Legislature of 1813,† Gen. C. C. Pinckney, Elias Horry and Peter Smith, Esqrs. of Charleston, have endowed it with lands. Mrs. Mary Gregorie and Mrs. Sarah Russell, of Charleston, have likewise contri

* See Third Report of the Society,

+ See Appendix I. 10.

buted to its adornment; and Elias Lynch Horry, Esq. of Charleston, presented it with the Communion Plate, consisting of, a Flagon, Chalice, and Paten. The present Incumbent, the Rev. Christian Hanckell, has been their only Minister. He was appointed Nov. 29, 1815, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in the So. Ca. College, but in consequence of a late, and judicious regulation of the Trustees, prohibiting the Professors from holding parochial cures, he will soon retire from the College, and devote himself entirely to the pastoral office. As the burden of his support will then fall solely upon his Church, whose means, as yet, are small, the Protestant Episcopal Society have generously appropriated $1000 per ann. for three years, in aid of their funds for the support of their Minister, so soon as his connexion with the College shall cease.*

The Church was Incorporated in 1813, by the name of "the Protestant Episcopal Church in Columbia."

Sect. 6. St. Helena Island.

Before the Revolution, this Island formed a part of St. Helena's Parish, and the present Church was a Chapel of Ease to the Parish Church at Beaufort. It has since become a distinct cure, and has a respectable congregation. The Church has been enlarged, and is in good repair. It is built of Tapia and brick, and is 60 feet by 40. The Communion Plate is without inscription. The Bible and Prayer Book for the Desk were a donation from the late William Chapline, Esq. and some testamentary donations of money were made by Mrs. Wait and Thomas Fripp, Esq. The Rev. John S. I. Gardiner, now Rector of Trinity Church,

* See Tenth Report of the Board of Trustees of the Pro. Epis. Soc.

Boston, was settled here for some time, and was succeeded by the Rev. William Eastwick Graham. The present Incumbent, the Rev. Philip Matthews, was elected Rector, March 6, 1812.

Sect. 7. Hilton Head.

Hilton Head formed a part of St. Luke's Parish, but is now considered as an independent cure. There is a neat and commodious Church, built since the Revolution, through the influence of Capt. Stoney and Mr. Fripp. It is of wood, on a brick foundation; is 40 feet by 30, and is in good repair. There is at present no Incumbent, but the neighbouring Clergy occasionally visit it, and administer the Ordinances of religion.

Sect. 8. Grace Church, Sullivan's Island.

This Island, situated at the entrance of Charleston harbour, is a place of refuge for strangers to the climate, in the sickly season of the year, and of general resort, either for health or amusement, to the citizens of Charleston, in summer.

Public Worship has, for several years, been performed on the Island, in a large brick edifice originally built for a Lazaretto. The late Bishop Dehon stated to the Convention of 1817, that this "building was purchased by subscription, to be converted into a place of public worship." It has been fitted up with much neatness, and is commodiously pewed. It was consecrated, June 10, 1819, by Bishop Bowen, by the name of Grace Church. The Bible, was a donation from Mrs. Mary Peters, the Prayer Book for the Reading Desk, from Mrs. Margaret Bethune; and two Prayer Books for the Altar, were presented by Mrs. Valk.

At present, the only piece of Communion Plate, is a Chalice.

The following Clergymen have officiated on the Island. The Rev. George H. Spieren, Rev. George T. Nankivel, Rev. Dr. Mills, and the Rev. Joseph Warren. The present Incumbent, the Rev. Albert A. Muller, was the first Minister of Grace Church.

As the Island is inhabited only in summer, except by a few persons, Divine Service is performed only at that season.

The zeal of the late Bishop Dehon, in promoting the establishment of this Church, endeared him to the inhabitants of Sullivan's Island. As a mark of their affection, a Monument has been erected to his memory, against the east wall, through the exertions of the Rev. Mr. Muller.*

is a humble memorial of the
Right Rev. THEODORE DEHON, D.D.
late Rector of St. Michael's Church,
in Charleston, and Bishop of the
Diocess of South-Carolina.

He was born in Boston

On the 8th day of December 1776.
and died

On the 6th day of August, A. D. 1817.
Our State was blessed by his pure example,
his Christian zeal,

and ardent devotion to the Church.
The people of Charleston were improved
by his solemn admonitions:

Loved him for his pastoral care, and beheld
in his life the beauty of holiness.
The last days of his pious
and benevolent life, were devoted to the
religious edification of this Island,
and the establishment of this Church.

He reared its altar-its walls are bis memorial!
"Remember him O! my God, concerning this,
and wipe not out the good deeds which
he has done for the house of his God,
and the offices thereof."

As then the Church of Rome, in the primitive ages, was equally pure with the Churches of Jerusalem or Antioch, and as the Church in Britain was complete: in its Orders, while the Church of Rome existed in Apostolical purity, it follows, that the British Church was equally pure and Apostolical, with the primitive Churches founded by the Apostles, although its Orders may have been derived from the Church at Rome: which, however, remains yet to be proved.

We have the authority of an amiable and learned Presbyterian divine of Massachusetts, in favour of the necessity of an uninterrupted succession of the Ministry from the Apostles, although it may have been derived through the Church of Rome. "They will tell us," says he, that "Ordinations came down to us through the Church of Rome, and there was a time when that Church was so essentially corrupt, that she ceased to be a Church of Christ, and her Officers ceased to be ministers of Christ; and therefore they, who withdrew from her, at the time of the Reformation, having among them no valid ordinations, must have begun them anew. But will history support this conclusion? Did the first reformers, distrusting their past ordinations, receive one from their lay-brethren? The contrary is most evident. The protestant reformers in England early drew up a confession of their faith, in which, as Dr. Burnet says, 'they censure any who sould take upon them to preach, or administer the Sacraments, without having lawfully received the power from the ministers, to whom alone the right of conferring that power doth appertain.' Certainly they had no apprehension, that the ministerial succession was at an end.* The Roman Church, though at that time exceedingly corrupt, appears not to have materially corrupted her ordinations.

*The Reformation in England was effected by the Bishops, to whom the power of Ordaining had been lawfully committed."