The tendency of the two parties to opposite poles of dogma was all the stronger for the fact that on both sides teachers and taught were alike lacking in liberalizing education.

The fact that two by far the most numerous denominations of Christians in the United States were picketed thus over against each other in the same regions, as widely differing from each other in doctrine and organization as the Dominican order from the Jesuit, and differing somewhat in the same way, is a fact that invites our regret and disapproval, but at the same time compels us to remember its compensating advantages.
* * * * * It is to this period that we trace the head-waters of several important existing denominations.
At the close of the war the congregation of the "King's Chapel," the oldest Episcopal church in New England, had been thinned and had lost its rector in the general migration of leading Tory families to Nova Scotia.

At the restoration of peace it was served in the capacity of lay reader by Mr.James Freeman, a young graduate of Harvard, who came soon to be esteemed very highly in love both for his work's sake and for his own.

Being chosen pastor of the church, he was not many months in finding that many things in the English Prayer-book were irreconcilable with doubts and convictions concerning the Trinity and related doctrines, which about this time were widely prevalent among theologians both in the Church of England and outside of it.

In June, 1785, it was voted in the congregation, by a very large majority, to amend the order of worship in accordance with these scruples.