LMS 7-No. 850, August 31, 7 p. m., from London.
 
      
 
 
day they carried out the traditional laying on of hands on 
      Samuel Seabury in the upper room of Bishop Skinner's house. They 
      passed on to him, in the full conviction that they were doing 
      the right thing, what they fittingly described as "a free, 
      valid, and purely ecclesiastical episcopate".
 
      
 
 
They sent him forth as the first bishop of the Anglican communion 
      to plant a diocese outside of the British Isles. Since his day, 
      of course, countless other bishops have gone to the ends of the 
      earth to establish outposts of that same communion, to convert 
      the heathen and to labor among their own who live abroad. They 
      are all the spiritual descendants of Samuel Seabury and of his 
      zeal to perpetuate in far lands the church he loved.
 
      
 
 
They have gone forth in faith, and faith is one of the rarest 
      qualities in the world today. It appears to me we have come to 
      a point where spiritual values have so declined in men that incentive 
      is disappearing. More and more I talk with individuals who are 
      discouraged, who have laid their burdens down, who are victims 
      of a hopeless apathy. We must reawaken the flame of faith and 
      spiritual courage which has always enheartened the men