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EXTRACT FROM JOURNAL - 1858
PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH
IN LOUISIANA

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It will be remembered I brought to your notice, in my
last Annual Address, a movement which had been made to unite
the ten Southern Dioceses of our Ecclasiastical Confederation,
in the work of founding and establishing, on an extended scale,
a University for the education of the youth of the Church,
and of the South, generally, in the higher range of learning.
At the time of my addressing you, the co-operation of the
Bishops only had been secured. I am happy to state, that the
action of the Bishops, has been fully endorsed by the Clergy
and Laity, of all the Dioceses; and the action of the Con-
ventions will present us leagued and united, as one body,
pledged with one mind and will, to carry forward this great
design for the commom benefit, to the highest point of attain-
able success.

For such an evidence of unity and harmony, among so large
a number, spread over such an extended surface, our grateful
thanks are due alone to Him, in whose hands are the hearts of
all men, and for the extension of whose kingdom and glory,
this enterprise is mainly designed. May His Blessing ever
rest upon it:

On the 4th of July, according to appointment, the Bishops,
Clergy and Laity representing the Dioceses uniting, assemble
for the purpose of organizing themselves into a Board of Trus-
tees, on Look-out Mountain, in East Tennessee. The day was
eminently auspcious. Not only on account of its historical
associations and suggestions, prompting and inspiring generous
efforts to emancipate our posterity from the disabilities of
their position, to break the yoke of ignorance and sin, and
secure for them the liberty wherewith Christ sets free; but
the bright and balmy atmosphere, the beauty and grandeur of
the scenery of the surroundings, all contributed to add impres-
siveness to the religious, and other, solemnities with which