POLICY OF THE BISHOPS AND CLERGY OF VIRGINIA IN REGARD TO
TRACTARIANISM.
At an early period Bishop Moore called the attention of the
clergy and laity of Virginia to this heretical and Romish movement,
when it overhung our horizon only as a cloud no larger than
a man's hand. But it was a black and portentous one. The Convention
in Norfolk, with a few exceptions, agreed with him in the
propriety of warning against the giving of any encouragement to
the circulation of the insidious tracts. At the meeting in Alexandria,
the following year, when they had been circulated through
the land, having already done much evil in our Mother-Church, a
call was made upon all to expose and condemn the false doctrines
thereof. The Bishops and ministers did their duty in sounding the
alarm, and the faithful Professors of our Seminary did theirs. The
consequence is that the Church of Virginia has been preserved
from the ill effects of the erroneous and strange doctrines taught
by that school.
