. History of the Catholic Church in the United States. rianchurch, vras dedicated. An event of importance not only to the diocese ofCharleston, but to the Church throughout the UnitedStates, was the step finally taken by Dr. Levi SillimanIves, Episcopalian Bishop of North Carolina. Anative of Meriden, Conn., educated in New York,he became a minister of the Protestant EpiscopalChurch. In his ministry he won general esteem forhis learning, devotedness, and exalted character. Hismarriage to a daughter of Bishop Hobart of New Yorkseemed to bind him irrevocably to that church. Butthe Oxford movemen
. History of the Catholic Church in the United States. rianchurch, vras dedicated. An event of importance not only to the diocese ofCharleston, but to the Church throughout the UnitedStates, was the step finally taken by Dr. Levi SillimanIves, Episcopalian Bishop of North Carolina. Anative of Meriden, Conn., educated in New York,he became a minister of the Protestant EpiscopalChurch. In his ministry he won general esteem forhis learning, devotedness, and exalted character. Hismarriage to a daughter of Bishop Hobart of New Yorkseemed to bind him irrevocably to that church. Butthe Oxford movement came: he felt the force of thewriters in England and shared their labors. He clungfor a time to the idea that the Anglican Church could bebrought back to the truth. As this hope vanished, thedifficulties of his position became painfully apparent,and he describes them in his Trials of a at last to the call of Divine grace, he laiddown his office in a letter to the Convention of NorthCarolina. He was then in Rome, having gone abroad 440. l RT. REV. P. N. LYNCH, THIRD BISHOP OF CHARLESTON. 442 THE CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES. on a leave of absence. His trials were ended. Hewas received into tlie Church, and was confirmed byPope Pius IX. His wife soon followed his example,and they returned to the United States, where hepublished a work in explanation of his course. Hebecame a contributor to our best Catholic periodicals,and when the Catholic Protectory was established inNew York, he was placed at the head of the organiza-tion, and by his ability made the Protectory a mostsuccessful institution. He died October 13, 1867, for-tified by all the sacraments of the Church, consoled inthat supreme hour by all the hopes that the true faithcan give. Several Episcopal clergymen had beenalready received into the Church, but the example ofa Bishop, thus sacrificing all, influenced many whowere wavering between the call of conscience and theworldly consequences. The Rev. Dr. McC
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