Others still, as the German Reformed, the Moravians, and the Quakers, were content to remain for years to come in a relation of subordination to foreign centers of organization.

But there were three communions, of great prospective importance, which found it necessary to address themselves to the task of reorganization to suit the changed political conditions.

These were the Episcopalians, the Catholics, and the Methodists.
In one respect all the various orders of churches were alike.

They had all suffered from the waste and damage of war.

Pastors and missionaries had been driven from their cures, congregations had been scattered, houses of worship had been desecrated or destroyed.