At the last meeting of the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, held October, , the following action was taken, viz. Resolved , I. That, inasmuch as movements for religious reform have extended beyond the bounds of the Church in Italy, and are being vigorously pressed in Germany, Switzerland, Mexico, and other parts of Christendom, the House of Bishops concurring, a Joint Committee on Ecclesiastical Relations and Religious Reform be constituted, in place of the Joint Committee on Religious Reform in Italy, whose office it shall be to give moral co-operation to movements in progress throughout Christendom, which are preparing the way for a return to Apostolic truth and primitive order.
That such Joint Committee consist of five Bishops, five Presbyters. Sub-committee No. The Sub-committee on the Church of Sweden and other Churches of Northern Europe, reports that in fulfilment of the duty entrusted to them, a correspondence has been held with the REV. Then followed the reading of DR.
The REV. LEEDS then offered the following resolution, viz. Resolved , That the able paper of the REV. The Secretary subsequently, in correspondence with the REV.
I have been requested by yourself and others of your Committee to report to you such facts and views as have come within my experience during a residence of nearly six years in Europe interrupted by several short trips to America , respecting Church Relations and Religious Reform. During the earlier part of my residence abroad I was actively connected with two Committees of the General Convention of which I had formerly been a clerical member, and which Committees had relation to Sweden.
Within the last two or three years I was appointed by the "Standing Committee on the part of the General Convention of Churches in Foreign Lands," with discretion to organize an American Episcopal congregation in Berlin, Stuttgart, or elsewhere, according to the tenor of Instructions from the Bishop having such jurisdiction.
