OF THE RIGHT REVEREND WILLIAM WHITE, D.D., BISHOP OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. BY BIRD WILSON, D.D., PROFESSOR OF SYSTEMATICK DIVINITY IN THE GENERAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. PHILADELPHIA: JAMES KAY, JUN. & BROTHER, 122 CHESTNUT STREET. PITTSBURGH:-C. H. KAY & CO. 1839. Entered, according to the act of congress, in the year 1839, by JAMES KAY, JUN. & BROTHER, in the office of the clerk of the district court of the United States in and for the eastern district of Pennsylvania. PREFACE. THE preparation of the following Memoir was undertaken by the Author at the request of the Family of BISHOP WHITE, and also of a meeting of the Episcopal Clergy of the city of Philadelphia and its neighbourhood, together with some of their brethren who had come from other dioceses to attend his funeral held on the 21st of July 1836, a few days after the BISHOP'S decease. As soon as his papers could be examined, and other materials collected, the work was commenced, and was delivered in a state for publication in September 1837. The authentic materials from which it has been composed, are stated or referred to in the course of the Memoir itself, and need not be here particularly detailed. I have only to express my acknowledgements to Dr William H. Hobart, for the obliging readiness with which he favoured me with the letters of Dr White to his father, the late Bishop Hobart, in the course of an extensive and long continued correspondence between them. Unexpected delay has occurred in the publication of the Memoir. It was prepared with an intention of prefixing it to the proposed collection of the BISHOP'S Posthumous Works, and was consequently affected by the difficulties connected with so extensive an undertaking. This circumstance will account for the delay stated, and also for some expressions and references which will be found in the text and notes suggested by the expected connection of the Memoir with those works; and which it has not been thought necessary to expunge, though the Memoir is now published separately. Theological Seminary, New York, August 10, 1839. B. W. |