Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Story of a Congregation: Why the Melish Case Is a Living Issue
We have had good reason to feel pride in our parish because of the compassionate and generous spirit of its organized life, and the out reach of its influence into the community of which it is a part. Holy Trinity has never been a large congregation. It has chosen rather to be an adventurous, pioneering Christian enterprise. Loyalty to Christ and his teachings has been given priority to any emphasis upon physi cal numbers. Our ministers have sought to preach and apply the Gospel in the belief that the world needs Christ's spirit of reconcilia tion and redemption. Because the world does not possess this spirit, there is always a state of tension between a community as it now is, and the same community that the Church of Christ is called to make it. No one has found life at Holy Trinity to be casual or accommodat ing. It has ever been provocative and challenging. We have been taught to expect no flattery and to seek no easy agreement. The impact of jesus Christ upon us and our world is an unsettling and confound ing experience that has confronted us with decisions. With our ministers we have come to believe that the function of Christ's Church in this distraught contemporary world is not to soothe but to save! IN the Protestant Episcopal Church, the conduct of parish life rests with the rector and with a board of trustees, called the vestry, that meets at regular intervals. Within the parish, the authority is vested in an annual parish meeting. In the interval between such annual meetings, the vestry is empowered to act as the legal agents and representatives of the congregation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
