Excerpt from Free and Open Churches: A Sermon Preached at the Opening of the Chapel of Christ Church, Philadelphia
The primordial law of nature, enacted by God for the welfare of the human race, the great fundamental law of the domestic constitution, increase and multiply, is also the primordial law of the Christian Church, that family of our Lord Jesus Christ of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named. It is a going forth, the outward, onward movement of the household of faith, sending out its colonies and its families, ever lengthening its cords, ever strengthening its stakes, ever stretching forth the curtains of its habitations.
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William Bacon Stevens was the fourth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania.
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