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Excerpt from Pastoral Letter Addressed to the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, by the House of Bishops: On Occasion of the General Convention of the Church, Held in the City of New York, October, A. D., 1874 Let us love the Church and lavish on it the very best we have. Men may ask in scorn, What is thy beloved more than another beloved? But we know Christ loved the Church and gave Himself for it, and that she is His bride and the mother of His children. Let us love the stranger and the fatherless, the poor and him. That hath no helper; let us love the vicious and. The unlovely for the sake of that love in whose image they were created; nor let us be unmindful of the new commandment, that we Christians love one another with pity, with courtesy, with patience, in honor preferring one'another, forbearing one another in love. 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.